ESRI: Public service enjoy 26% premium over private

THE fourth assessment in three months of the pay gap between public and private sector workers has found that those in the public service enjoyed a 26% premium in 2006.

The figure arrived at by the Government think-tank, the ESRI, is the same as it concluded when it looked at the comparison at the end of last month.

It said the latest assessment used a different methodology in which it had “drilled down into differences within the public sector.