The 2021 Pay Award of 0.9% has been agreed by the following groups – excluding those with salaries of £100,000 or more:
- Civil servants
- Energy Recovery Facility Workers
- Fire and Rescue Service
- Headteachers and Deputy Heads
- Hospital Chaplain
- Le Geyt
- Legal Advisers
- Manual Workers
- Pay Groups who accepted the Workforce Modernisation pay award: Ambulance, Family Support Workers, Residential Childcare Workers and Youth Workers
- Police Officers,
- Prison Officers
- Teachers and College Lecturers
- Teaching Assistants
Staff grade doctors, Senior Associate Specialists and Hospital Consultants agreed a 4% award for 2020, as well as the 2021 0.9% award.
Meanwhile, the Government’s pension contributions will increase by 0.8%.
Pictured: “Constructive negotiations” are still ongoing between Government and the trade unions representing nurses and midwives
In total, £3.76m from the Government’s reserves has been allocated to the various departments for the pay awards, and an additional £2m for pension contributions.
Senior leaders, who had their pay frozen for 2018 and 2019 while the former CEO’s OneGov restructuring aiming to cut management positions to save money was ongoing, will receive a backdated rise for 2020 in addition to the 2021 rise.
66 senior leaders will be benefiting from that pay rise, which will cost £409,000 over the next two years.
“Savings were made from freezing the base pay in 2018/19 and a reduction in senior management grades,” a Government spokesperson told Express.
“There was a commitment to review senior salaries for a pay award in 2020, but this didn’t happen due to capacity issues related to covid. This review has now concluded and awards are in line with the civil service group.”