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Originally Posted by Cyfr
My inflation figure was a national average and it is accurate. You can't just pick your own wage and say that it doesn't fit it hence my figures are wrong. Not even sure if that is your correct percentage, because on page 1 you said it was 18%
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Whist I appreciate that your wage inflation was the national average, I don't think that you can apply the natioanl average to one specific area of the country.
As you are well aware, Hyndburn is a 'low wage area' with most people earning well below the National Average Wage. In fact there are many people in Hyndburn who have not had a pay rise for over 12 months.
Can you please supply the figures for average wages in Hyndburn for the last 10 years. (Always bearing in mind that most people will be earning much less than the average).
As a matter of interest I was listening to 2BR the other night, there were a series of job adverts on, most of the office jobs were advertised at £6.00 an hour, the only jobs advertised at jobs with 'reasonable' rates of pay were for motor mecahnics paying approx £10.00 an hour. I have just looked on Job Centre Plus and the highest rate of pay I could find for office work, was for someone to work in HR and they were offering about £7.20 an hour.