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Merit-based budgets increase to 3.5% over 2006/07 pay round

Analysis of performance-related pay increases over the past bargaining year finds that paybill budgets have been more generous than in the year before.

Key points

  • One in four pay awards in our current sample is based entirely on merit, with the median paybill budget increase set at 3.5%, up from 3.3% one year previously.