This may be the basis of the inequality angst, but its not a solution to simply legislate. The argument is that Public Service salaries need to be competitive with corporate salaries to get the best people to do the job; and it’s a global market in the corporate world that we also need to compete in. Sufficient reward for skills is a necessary incentive to get anyone to take on the stress at a management level, but who’s to say a management salary is valued at 10 or more times that of a tradesman? The issue needs some solid research and discussion.

This is part of the current disease – we are willing to pay “management” an absolute ton but the people who actually do the work get damn all
Yes limit the pay of the idiots at the top – but we do need to increase the pay of the engineers and inspectors

I agree that the increase to public servants shouldn’t be more than the average wage increase but from what I’ve seen & heard it’s usually less than what is on offer in the private sector for similar jobs