'Harder work for less money': public sector workers on the pay cap

A pay freeze since 2011 has seen incomes fall well behind inflation. We asked people to tell us how this has affected themMedian hourly earnings of public sector workers dropped in real terms by almost 6% between 2005 and 2015, with some sectors experiencing worse drops than others.Teachers have seen average pay fall by £3 an hour in real terms, police officers by £2 and prison officers by £1, while the wages of nurses have stagnated during a decade of public sector salary free