asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will circulate in the Official Report a table showing the starting pay for an executive officer of the Civil Service and a journalist based in London in 1950, 1960, 1970 and the years 1972 to date.
Relevant information about the salaries of Civil Service executive officers is given in the following table. I regret that no comparable information is available for journalists.
1950
| 1960
| 1970
| 1970
| 1972
| 1973
| 1973
| 1974
| 1975
| 1975*
| 1978
| 1979
| 1979
| 1980
| 1980
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Scales effective from
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1.10.47
| 1.10.58
| 1.7.69
| 1.4.70
| 1.1.72
| 1.4.73
| 7.11.73
| 1.1.74
| 1.1.75
| 1.4.75
| 1.4.78
| 1.4.79
| 1.8.79
| 1.1.80
| 7.5.80
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| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | ||
| Minimum | … | 230 | 440 | 683 | 741 | 860 | 951 | 1,270 | 1,387 | 1,785 | 1,885 | 2,549 | 2,831 | 2,958 | 3,200 | 3,775 |
| Maximum | … | 650 (Male and London) rate | 1,110 (Male and national) rate Additions to officers in London of £7–£30 | 1,691 (Men and Women) London Weighting | 1,835 | 2,150 | 2,288 | 2,600 | 2,782 | 3,492 | 3,670 | 4,579 | 5,043 | 5,272 | 5,700 | 6,745 |
| Inner London 125 | 125 | 175 | 175 | 228 | 228 | 410 | 410 | 524 | 780 | 780 | 780 | 780 | ||||
| Outer London 75 | 75 | 90 | 90 | 110 | 110 | 260 | 260 from 1.7.75 | 275 | 275 | 325 | 325 | 325 | ||||
| Inner London £465 | ||||||||||||||||
| Outer London £275 | ||||||||||||||||
* 1975–78 Pay policy
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Pay supplement of £313·20 from 1 April 1976; variable threshold payments of 5 per cent. of total earnings (minimum of £130·50 per year) from 1 April 1977. Both these supplements were consolidated into the 1978 minimum salary quoted above.