NHS: Pay
(asked on 20th February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2017 to Question 62814, on NHS Pay, what estimate he has made of what the real-terms change in the salary has been for a member of NHS staff who was at the top of their pay band between 2009-10 and 2015-16, who remained in the same job, worked as a full-time employee and was not in receipt of unsocial hours pay (a) on average across all Agenda for Change staff groups and (b) by Agenda for Change pay band.
The following table shows:
Annual increase in Agenda for Change (AfC) band maxima - adjusted for the Consumer Price Index
AfC band | 2009/10 to 2015/16 | Annual Average |
1 | -4.4% | -0.7% |
2 | -5.4% | -0.9% |
3 | -7.0% | -1.2% |
4 | -9.5% | -1.6% |
5 | -8.9% | -1.5% |
6 | -9.5% | -1.6% |
7 | -9.5% | -1.6% |
8a | -9.5% | -1.6% |
8b | -9.5% | -1.8% |
8c | -10.4% | -1.8% |
8d | -10.4% | -1.8% |
9 | -10.4% | -1.8% |
All bands | -8.2% | -1.4% |
This change in the value of earnings is not representative of the great majority of National Health Service staff who were in post over this period. In 2009/10 only around 40% of Agenda for Change staff were at the top of their pay band. Many of these would have either left the NHS or been promoted by 2016.
Agenda for Change staff employed in both 2010 and 2015 benefited from median earnings growth of 2.2% to 2.9% annually, depending on staff group. Adjusting for the Consumer Price Index gives an average increase of -0.2% to 0.5% per year.
In 2015/16 48% of Agenda for Change staff were at the top of their pay band. Most Agenda for Change staff are therefore still eligible to receive incremental pay of around 3% on average on top of annual pay awards.