In September the Bureau unveiled the largest single database on senior public sector salaries ever produced.

Private sector salaries can be a bit like girl-/boy-friends.

Increasing public sector salaries and pensions would raise Poland's budget deficit above 5 percent of the gross national product, she argues.

Information is Beautiful on public sector salaries.

Anyway, it tells you all need to know about the fact that the Irish are still paying ludicrously high public sector salaries.

Also, public sector salaries are typically £4,000 higher than the private sector.

It's only in the last few years that public sector salaries have caught up with the private sector.

Hence we should not be looking at these salaries in comparison to other public sector salaries.

In some of these countries, the unemployment rate is over 20%, and public sector salaries have had to be cut by more than 20%.

We are talking about the harmonisation of public sector salaries.