Farewell to pay growth - BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39578270

I'd be interested to know what you make of that.

(Devil's advocate) Do you think the Tories are even in a position to help people, much less turn things around? Would you honestly trust Corbyn/Labour to tackle it?

You are avin a larf Ernesto!
Pay growth was never a thing. I can remember them giving me pennies per hour extra after working through the probationary period. The sooner you realise that a workers primary function is to be exploited...
Be self employed, at least you can only blame yourself.

You're preaching to the choir, mate. We're still waiting on back pay from years ago never mind an increase!

Indeed. We've just had a 2% rise. however they've changed when they do the pay review so this can either be seen as this years pay rise and we had nothing last year or last years rise and we're getting nothing this year, or I suppose it could be viewed as 1% from last year and 1% from this year.
Whichever way you cut it is a real world pay cut... and we're expected to be pleased about it.
It's better than nothing I grant you but it's still crap.

I'm still earning less than I did in 2002. Apart from switching jobs, I haven't had a payrise since 2001.

Guess I have been (up to about 2 years ago) one of the lucky ones

Had a massive (80%) pay increase when I moved down south (but then also had a massive mortgage increase). For the 1st few years got an average of 5% increase. Last 3 years its been around 1% and should get around the same this year

I was once given promotion to the next grade up for doing a good job.
The promotion involved extra responsibilities as well as being on call. It also involved a salary increase to the scale for the job which was a big increase in those days - or should have been.
It was a whole £25 increase PER YEAR.

IME, pay growth only visits and never stays - It was steady in the late 90s to early 2000s and then it stopped for eight years in 2008. I got my first real pay rise in January last year, only to be made redundant four months later, and ended up with my current job which pays 25% less than my last.

I'm now earning approximately the same as I was twelve years ago, but everything costs much more so it's probably more like what I was earning twenty years ago. However, if I get the job I'm currently being considered for, I could be earning more than I ever have.

to get a pay rise i had to retrain from a retail environment to be a bus driver.
it may not sound much but it was a £5 an hour pay rise also its not as manual as night shift in retail ...

A fiver an hour is one heck of a payrise for most people!

My wife was forecibly retrained as a bus driver, when she was younger, by the Job Center - she used to work in a supermarket, but couldn't do the shifts due to being a single mother with 2 pre-school children. They made her take her PSV test, then realised that the hours were even more unsociable and not suitable for a single mother...

After 4 years with the same practice, I got a 1% pay rise. But if I went for another job, I could get paid 20% more. The problem is that the places offering the most are out in the sticks or too far to commute.