Workers keep pay personal

16/07/2008

UK workers prefer to keep details of their personal pay to themselves, a new poll has found.

It revealed many are reluctant to share the information with their families and some would even consider leaving a job than ask for a rise, Personnel Today has reported.

"Our research demonstrates that pay is an important personal issue and one that employers need to think carefully about," said Karan Paige, chief people officer at Ceridian UK, which conducted the poll.

Its study showed older employees (81 per cent) were happy to ask for extra pay, but less than one in five aged under 34 felt they could do so.

Men were more likely to push hard for improved salaries – of the eight per cent who claimed to be more insistent, three-quarters were men.

One in 33 workers polled, said they would look elsewhere for work rather than quiz bosses over more pay.

Average earnings, including bonuses have grown by 3.8 per cent in the year to May and matched the most recent CPI inflation rate.

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