Digby Jones argues that public sector pay has ‘caught up’ with the private sector because the median of the former is £700 higher than the latter.
It is surely self-evident that this statistic is completely meaningless unless adjusted for the different occupational composition of the two sectors. It is the sort of tendentious comparison we expect from the self-styled Taxpayers’ Alliance, but a former CBI director general and minister should surely make a more honest contribution to the debate.
David Griffiths
Huddersfield
