Flatcapdriver

To be fair to the Bank of England, the CPI rate was foisted on them when the MPC was set up so they had little say in the matter other than some rumoured behind the scenes debate at the time.

urban

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Well, quoting the RPI of almost 5% potentially gives me a better stance though.

Thanks.

StickyMicky

i gave myself a healthy bonus

here is to 2007 and my new revised increased price list

CooperS

2% last year, expecting the same again :S

Suresh

I expect a fixed increase of 8-10% or so. Which is somewhat under what my 14 year average has been, but I'm not complaining.

Tim-Grove

I got 14% on my performance review plus what ever the unions negotiate for the cost of living rise.

Only bad thing is im now on the top of my grade so it will only be cost of living rise’s from now on

J4CKO

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Dont think we will get much, company not doing so well, however it depends on whether I can get the next grade up.

I am however not lurking around waiting for something to happen for 8 years like I did at the Police, I turned down an interview today, got rang by another agency to see if I was looking, while the market is ok I will always have one eye on opportunities.

I would consider taking additional holiday in lieu of extra money.

Boost II

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Any GP's on here get the 63% over last 3 years? What you spending it all on? Lucky barstewards! I suppose Blair, Brown etc have to give it to some one. Some GP's must be earning more than consultants these days.

Not had mine yet - expecting 3-4% though

Proby521

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I usually get 5-7% annually on my basic 40 hours. Just recently got 3% for this year. Wasnt too pleased but better than nothing I suppose.

Proby

mart360

3.7% as of the 1st of Jan, and either inflation or RPI whichever is higher next year..


but we also get + our annual apprasal bonus and our company bonus due in May.. and the buyback of the extra hours worked...

Mart

Midlife......

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1 percent

kend

My practice have had a headline 40% over the last 3 years, although so far this year have taken a cut of 15%, and planning around another cut of 5% next year ( currently funding is frozen, with no inflation rises - so all of our costs/staff wages go up, but with no funding to pay for the increases.

14% of the headline figure is 'pretend money' which doesn't exist. In common with the rest of the NHS the Health Authorities used to pay employers superannuation payments for us. Now they give us the money (14%) and we pay it back to them immediately to make the superann payments. This means that headline salary goes up by 14% - but without there actually being any more money in my bank account.

I think (though not all GPs would agree with me) that I'm very well paid for what I do, but nowhere near as well paid as the media / uncle Tony's propaganda machine would have you believe. I'm unsurprised to see headlines this year reporting how much more we're paid, but don't expect to see headlines next year when we've all taken a pay cut.

Oldfella

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Shaun, are you certain, could have sworn I saw 1.4%
ps. Bonnet

Varboy

3% - very disapointed seeing as I pulled out all the stops to ensure someone who works for me received 5%, obviously my boss isn't as passionate about reward as I am

hopefully the bonus will make up for it....

Leslie

They keep telling us that you blokes are on an average £120k without any obligation to working out of office hours any more. You cant be that badly off surely? Or is that yet another load of doublespeak?

Les

Abdabz

0% for me
Joined in October and payrises announced in Jan... Even though I had breezed through the 3 month probation I was told I wouldnt get anything for the next 12 months...
Stand to get about 3% then, and also a 5-10% annual bonus in December (hopeully).
I dont mind too much as I am still developing and am relatively new, plus countless other perks mean it isnt just about money anyway...Either way, roll on Jan 08 I've got a wedding to pay for!

Midlife......

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Oldfella

What's 0.4% between friends LOL

I hadn't forgotten about the bonnet..........until you reminded me that is, I'll see if I need to collect my mum for Easter and drop by if that's OK

Shaun

kend

The governement got their sums wrong around the out of hours work - they decided we didn't actually do very much, so offered us the option to give up out of hours in return for giving back 6% of our pay. Almost everyone took this option up. The money we give back is used by the primary care trusts to provide the out of hours care.

We aren't badly off - I haven't suggested that for a moment, we're just nowhere near as well off as you might easily believe at the moment.

The £120K figure isn't particularly accurate, but if it was then around £18k of this is topsliced to make the pension contributions the PCTs used to make.

Finally - the 'average GP' we keep hearing about is a partner in a practice. An ever larger number of GPs are employed on a salary by a practice or by the PCT, the going rate for that is around £75-80k. Still not peanuts, but not that close to the numbers in the papers.

The government did intend to give GPs a pay rise as part of the new contract, but all of the rise has been in the form of performance related pay - most practices have performed better than the dept of health expected them to, and so had budgeted for. The govt are now clawing back the 'extra' by freezing funding for the next few years. (and by reducing pension terms and conditions they had previously agreed)

john banks

Agree with kend, this year will be a lot tighter with payrises for staff we employ, increased expenses, but no increase in our funding. The quality targets have got much harder across many more diseases within the existing resources. We've also had a lot of staff sickness which we have to pay for. We've also taken on extra staff to do the extra work.

Things are now reasonable, but it isn't a bonanza for our practice, not remotely.