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Originally Posted by andrewb
1999-2009 is where the 45% is from (not just my figures, they have been used in the local Observer since I posted them here).
If you take the period 1999-2007 council tax increase is 31.8%. So if you take your figure of 36% over that period, council tax has actually been less than the increase in wages. I hadn't noticed this, thank-you for highlighting it.
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I am a little puzzled about where 2009 comes from (as far as I am aware there has been no council tax set for 2009 (and won't be until the February 2009 meeting of the Council).
My figures for 1998 to 2007 are the increase of the median average hourly rate of pay (excluding overtime) is £10.32 for men (in 1998 it was £8.17) and for women is £6.87 (in 1998 it was £5.87). So in 10 years median hourly pay has only increased by £2.15 for men (26.32%) and for women £1.00 (17.05%). If you use the figures for all employees hourly rates in 1998 were £7.13 and in 2007 were £9.16 (an increase of £2.03 or 22.16%)
Please explain where your figure of 36% increase comes from.