AFPRB 2023
I also remember several years back when the pay rise was not backdated to the 1st of April but started from Sep or Oct? Definitely Tories in power at the time and I think it was the John Major era.
The other trick was a staged payment -cant remember the figures but say 6% recommended, we got 3% in Apr and only 6% 6 months later-net 4.5%. At least Cox and Kings weren't able to hold onto the extra for a couple of months and earn more interest!
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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Police get 7%, doctors and teachers 6%… and armed forces 5%…
https://news.sky.com/story/millions-...rises-12920175
Police get 7%, doctors and teachers 6%… and armed forces 5%…
https://news.sky.com/story/millions-...rises-12920175
Guessing we are the 5% then….
Last edited by M1key; 13th Jul 2023 at 11:46. Reason: Change of wording
A real-world pay cut that is part-funded by additional cuts to defence capability and set at a level below the 'overall public sector rate' of 6%.
Yep, it managed to be the worst of all worlds.
Yep, it managed to be the worst of all worlds.
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I wonder if I am becoming ever more cynical the older I get. There was a time when I would have looked at a 5% payrise and been genuinely happy- - I do not recall getting such a pay award in my 3 decades of flying. However, I watched the announcement in the House today and all I could think was 'Why do the Armed Forces get the lowest pay award in the public sector?'.
I suspect it is down to lack of lobbying and standing up for the team that personified the almost traitorous term of the now thankfully departed CAS. He had the opportunity to fight as hard as the other public sector leaders did for a decent pay rise , but his WOKE agenda, to the exclusion of virtually everything else, has now manifested in the lowest award of any public sector.
Just my thoughts.
I suspect it is down to lack of lobbying and standing up for the team that personified the almost traitorous term of the now thankfully departed CAS. He had the opportunity to fight as hard as the other public sector leaders did for a decent pay rise , but his WOKE agenda, to the exclusion of virtually everything else, has now manifested in the lowest award of any public sector.
Just my thoughts.
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I’m not complaining. Having left very recently this will neatly bump up the gratuity and pension… even more so when I finally get by onto AFPS75.
I’m not complaining. Having left very recently this will neatly bump up the gratuity and pension… even more so when I finally get by onto AFPS75.
So what exactly does this £1000 consolidated mean? Is it taxed and NI'd? How does it affect future pay/pension?
edit: just twigged what this means! So the initial 5% sounds dissapoiting but it actually works out at 7.1% for me, not as bad.
edit: just twigged what this means! So the initial 5% sounds dissapoiting but it actually works out at 7.1% for me, not as bad.
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Not a bad plan
and it still gives us the moral high ground because Joe Public will only see the 5% and probably feel sorry for us. Smoke and mirrors maybe but it maintains our goodwill with the man on the street.
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The 1000 is, I guess, a one off bonus. This is sly, wont be there next year or contribute to pension. 5% is still a real terms pay cut. Public sector pay rises have little correlation with raising inflation- small % of workforce and no impact on profit margins. Dont imagine this is great simply because it could have been worse.
AFPRB Report is available to read online.
The 1000 is, I guess, a one off bonus. This is sly, wont be there next year or contribute to pension. 5% is still a real terms pay cut. Public sector pay rises have little correlation with raising inflation- small % of workforce and no impact on profit margins. Dont imagine this is great simply because it could have been worse.
New pay scales are in the AFPRB Report now available.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/armed-forces-pay-review-body-fifty-second-report-2023
Last edited by M1key; 13th Jul 2023 at 16:45. Reason: Adding a link.
I’ve read the report but it doesn’t state it will be back dated to April.
The AFPRB report, a link to which is included in the Written Statment, shows all increases applying from 1 Apr 2023.
Which should, therefore, mean that your awards will be backdated to 1 Apr 2023.
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And comments on the food charge being frozen in light of poor quality food I see as an indictment of the whole Pay As You Starve fiasco.