{"id":7029,"date":"2011-10-29T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T11:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T11:20:02","slug":"3-and-49-what-do-these-figures-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7029","title":{"rendered":"3% and 49% &#8211; what do these figures have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: both represent the annual increase in pay for a group of workers in Britain in 2010.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the workforce as a whole, the increase was 3.2% compared to a current inflation figure of 5.2%.<\/li>\n<li>For directors of the FTSE 100 companies, the increase was 49% which put the average director on \u00a32,697,664.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information from the source Incomes Data Services <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incomesdata.co.uk\/news\/press-releases\/directors-pay-report-2011.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is it any wonder that some people are protesting about our unfair society?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: both represent the annual increase in pay for a group of workers in Britain in 2010. For the workforce as a whole, the increase was 3.2% compared to a current inflation figure of 5.2%. For directors of the FTSE 100 companies, the increase was 49% which put the average director on \u00a32,697,664. More information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7033,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}