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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Anything less than raises congruent with cost of living increases is essentially a wage cut. Cost of living was already badly outpacing salary increases for years for public employees before the recent agreement expired.
In most industries, it is pretty usual for a company to raise employee salaries yearly to keep up with cost of living. I don't see why the public sector should be any different.
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I’ve talked with several people about salaries in Calgary in recent years (including someone who works in HR), and the most commonly cited figure for cost-of-living increase is 3 per cent. These are private-sector numbers. I don’t know if that’s just a Calgary thing, with salaries still depressed due to the energy-industry downturn (though not all the examples were in the energy industry).
I’d be curious to see the average annual private-sector increases in B.C. in recent years. Workers in all sectors may be losing out to rising cost of living. I’d be surprised if there’s a substantial gap between the private and public sector.