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Sat 07 Jul 2009Public sector pay 47% higher, survey finds
THE AVERAGE employee in the Republic earned €20.08 per hour, worked 34.4 hours a week and had spent nine years in their current job in 2007, according to the latest National Employment Survey.
The survey, conducted by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in October 2007, found that public sector workers earned 47.6 per cent more per hour than private sector workers and that there was a gender pay gap of almost 11 per cent on an hourly basis.
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