Earnings

[nick crisp]

I gotta say with Nurses been offered either a 1% payrise or an annual pay rise not both I thinks its disgusting the amount sportsmen in general get paid!
as ex Royal Navy I thought pay wasn't too bad eventually unless you break it down to a 24 hour hourly rate.
but as for Paramedics & Nurses, they get a pitance for what they actually have to do and all the training and then continual training to keep current their pay is bad!

And don't get me started on the annual pay rises of our politicians!  :grumble

I guess it's all relative though. People like Hamilton are the very best in their field, and I don't think it harms the rest of us when a few top sportsmen and women do well out of it. It does give the youngsters something to aspire to, which imo is no bad thing. Personally, I'm more concerned about bankers and directors of large, dominating corporations taking huge rises and bonuses even when their performance is poor. Now that is disgraceful.

So for me, it's more a gripe that nurses, firemen etc don't get decent pay rises comparatively. The armed forces is a tricky one. TBF, I was on the best money I've ever been on when I was in the RAF. I've never got back to that level since. In peacetime, it works out quite well, despite it being for 24hrs a day, 365 days a year, cos you actually get pretty good time off and other perks. But with the guys going off to the big sand box, putting their lives on the line, whether you believe in the reasons for it or not; well that's a more complex issue, and you could say that it was unfair. But you know what they say; if you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined up  :rolleyes