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!

Pay review bodies recommendations accepted.

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….
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66188500

"Reprioritise Budgets", Hmmmm - a taste of seeking further internal efficiencies?
that'll be a first...

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.

About 0.57 x current CPI and less than 0.5 x the last AFP and State Pension increases.

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.

Details can be found here.

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.

Any idea what the 1000 pounds “bonus” is.

Or who it is aimed at?!

Everyone’s base salary goes up by 5% plus £1000. That way junior ranks get a much bigger percentage pay increase. Actually not a bad plan.

Not a bad plan
 

I agree. For someone on £30k a £1000 consolidated payment represents a 3.3% pay increase. If you add that to the 5% that everyone gets it means that the lower paid ranks are actually getting 8.33%. I think that’s fair - the juniors are feeling the impact of the cost of living crisis much more than the seniors.

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.

I’ve read the report but it doesn’t state it will be back dated to April.

Have I missed this or can we assume it will be?

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.
 

It is not a one-off bonus. People on different pay scales will get varied increases.
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

The news item stated that the independent pay review bodies' recommnedations have been accepted in full by the government.

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.

Anyone know if RRP (flying pay) is also subject to the 5% increase?

The Report actually recommends 5.8% for RRP…if that is accepted as well…

Reading the report I see the MOD wanted to do the old non-consolidated bonus trick YET AGAIN. They still don’t learn do they.

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.