Top public sector pay under spotlight

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Top public sector pay under spotlight

More than 9,000 public sector employees are earning a higher wage than the prime minister. New research conducted for BBC Panorama found that there were more than 38,000 public employees earning above £100,000 and 1,000 people on more than £200,000.

In collaboration with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Panorama requested pay details from most of the UK's publicly funded organisations, including local authorities, schools, universities, the BBC, the NHS and the government agencies known as quangos.

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Read the BBC report, “Public sector pay: the numbers”, online at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11319918.