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Background
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On 3rd February 1977 the Senior Civil Service Council agreed that the PIU should carry out a survey to establish pay trends in the private sector in the period April 1976 to April 1977, using the same sample of companies as in the 1974-75 and 1975-76 surveys. It was also agreed that the procedures and methods of presentation and analysis should be the same as in the two previous years.
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On 6th April 1977 the PIU produced its report, which was then analysed by a Joint Working Party of the Senior Civil Service Council. Copies of the PIU Pay Trend Survey Report and the Joint Working Party Report are available to Members on request.
Pay Trend Survey Report
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The agreed analysis of the 1976-77 Pay Trend Survey Report by the Joint Working Party indicated that private sector salaries had, in relation to the minimum, mid-point and maximum of the Master Pay Scale, moved upwards as follows:
Master Pay Scale
Minimum
1976-77
Percentage increase (weighted mean)
Mid-point
Maximum Average
6.86
6.82
6.41
6.70
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The Joint Working Party also found that five of the 68 companies surveyed announced pay increases in the 1976-77 survey period, but backdated them to the 1975-76 survey period. The effect of including these belated increases in the results of the 1975-76 survey, and of recalculating the percentage increases (weighted means) for that period indicated the following understatement for 1975-76:
Master Pay Scale
1975-76
Minimum
1.02
Mid-point
0.88
Maximum Average
0.24
0.71
C.S. 166
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