Public sector pay deal will bring certainty for next three years

The new deal is projected to comfortably exceed inflation projections, thus bringing a sense of finality to the cost-of-living woes being experienced by public servants, particularly those on lower incomes.

In practice, the new deal will see a 4.25% increase over 2024, 4% in 2025, and a final 2% jump in pay in 2026. File picture

The latest public service pay deal, negotiated over a 19-hour session at the Workplace Relations Commission, will bring certainty to the sector for the next three years.

The agreement translates to a deal of normality for the public service, which had never really been wholly comfortable with the previous pay deal, the stopgap Building Momentum which was agreed upon following expedited talks in December 2021.