Average pay deals double to 2%

i work for a private firm in food retailing i never got a pay rise plus we went on a 4 day week. so where do they get there figures from i dont know,

Incidentally Bankers, on the subject of write offs, why not reduce the interest rate, reduce the debtor's credit limit until the account clears. Providing they are paying the minimum amount thats all you need. I am also concerned that you have forgotten how to do double entry book -keeping, and would you explain why the banking day closes at 00:01 on that date and not at 15:30? So even if I do pay in cleared funds during the day, you have already returned the cheque/automotated payment. So let's get this right: Automated items are returned at 00:01, and yet the banking day ends at 15:30, so even if I pay cash in you have returned the item automatically, It is also intresting that a BACS payment, is accepted because it comes in over night and you will honour the debit, but like a cheque, a BACS payment CAN be recalled. Please explain your logic. FInally I notice that none of your branches do their own work any more,; perhaps that is why there are so many cock-ups

Given the number who are unemployed, and the increase in that figure over the last 12 months, what is the method of calculation? Surely if some one becomes unemployed that is a pay drop, and far from an increase, and where in the figures do the small busiesess and Limited Companies who have had their debentures pulled or be foreclosed by the Bank? Are of course, to help with the loss making banks, who bizzarely are paying bonuses to Bankers who have cocked up! Any other employee, in another business would be summarily dismissed. To say that pay increases have DOUBLED, and then to disclose that it has only gone from 1% to 2%; is hardly anything to get excited or enthralled about, And whilst on the subject of Percentages, given that base rate is now 1%, would the Credit Card Companies explain why their APR still operates at 19.4%? And don't give me the rhubarb about protecting yourselves from the losses due to bad debt: you underwrote the loan!

I'm with Cantibe on this one, all I can think is they are using the same con calculation method that they use to calculate the "average wage" which few people are lucky enough to earn, eg they include the amounts earned by the top earners (who ironicly caused this present mess ) which distorts everybody elses earnings figures unrealisticly upwards, instead they should base the figures on how many and how much to get a realistic figure. Then again this would show how ridiculously well off MP's are compared to the rest off society so I can't see them being in a hurry to adopt this calculating method.

Again who got these pay rises then, come on speak up, oh i see them very clever and well needed bankers, did anyone else get a pay rise this year?