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<p>The Government’s pay policy has always been designed to strike the right balance
between being fair to public servants and being fair to all those, including public
sector workers themselves, whose taxes pay for them.</p><p>That approach has not changed,
and the Government continually assesses that careful balance. The current assessment
is that salaries in the public sector are, on average, comparable to those in the
private sector with the additional benefit of higher pension entitlements in many
cases.</p><p>The ONS publishes the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which
includes median gross annual earnings in the public sector. A time series of this
data from 1997 to 2017 can be accessed via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/ashe1997to2015selectedestimates"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/ashe1997to2015selectedestimates</a></p>
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