Big income divide between public and private sector workers

03/02/2009

Official statistics have shown that personal income for people who work in the private sector tends to be far smaller than those who work for the government.

This difference in pay is running at £62 a week, the Daily Mail reports.

Over recent years, the difference was also found to have increased by 50 per cent.

The figures were requested from the government agency by Francis Maude, a Conservative MP.

Speaking to the newspaper, he said that he had "grave concerns" about the "burden this state wage bill is putting on the economy".

Mark Wallace at pressure group the TaxPayers' Alliance added: "The widening public-private divide is extremely worrying and totally unsustainable.

"With the recession biting hard, we have fewer and fewer private sector taxpayers struggling to pay more and more to a growing number of public sector workers."

Around 5.7 million Brits currently work in the public sector.

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