Survey: Pay levels at small firms down by 5%

PAY levels in Ireland’s small firms have fallen by 5% compared to 2008 levels, a new survey by the Small Firms Association (SFA) has found.

The SFA surveyed 1,316 companies with 50 or fewer employees in the manufacturing, distribution, retail and services sectors.

In all, those companies employ almost 39,000 staff and of those: