England's Pay 'apartheid' between public and private sector workers grows by 50%

The U.K. Daily Mail reports:

The pay gap between the public and private sectors has widened dramatically in just four years, official figures show.

State workers now earn an average £62 a week more than their private sector counterparts - a 50 per cent increase in the differential since 2004.

Critics say it is fresh evidence of a developing apartheid between the two groups.

It comes at a time when public sector employment is rising while private workers are losing their jobs at a rate of more than 1,000 a day.

There is also growing anger that many pensions in the private sector are being closed, but taxpayer-funded state pensions remain seemingly untouched by the financial crisis.

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