Weekly pay to public workers rose €30 in a year

THE weekly pay of public sector workers rose by €30 in the space of a year, show figures released by the Central Statistics Office.

The average public sector weekly wage in March 2008 stood at €941 per week, more than €150 a week more than the latest average figure for skilled and unskilled workers in the industrial sector.

According to the CSO report there were 368,300 workers employed in the public sector in March.