Nadhim Zahawi includes extra earnings in figure for nurse ‘starting salary’ - Full Fact

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Nadhim Zahawi said that the “starting salary” of a nurse was around £31,000 following this year’s pay increase. We’ve written about this figure before - it’s an estimate that includes both basic pay and additional earnings from things like overtime.

The Department for Health and Social Care has confirmed to Full Fact that this figure is an estimate that includes both basic pay and additional earnings, which covers things like overtime, unsocial hours pay and supplements for those in high cost areas .on nurses’ and health visitors’ average basic pay and total earnings in England in 2021/22.

Mr Zahawi’s description of this £31,000 figure as a “starting salary” is unclear, however if he was referring to basic pay, it would not be correct, as the £31,000 is an estimate of total earnings, not just basic pay. We contacted Mr Zahawi about his use of the figure, but he had not responded at the time of publication.

We've not been able to find a single widely-agreed definition of a nurse's"starting salary", and the terms appears to be used in different ways by different organisations.as being “made up of basic pay and any unsocial hours payment and/or any long-term recruitment and retention premium .”in the DHSC calculations for the £31,000 figure.Announcing a 2.8% pay increase

for NHS England staff in 2020, it said that since the 2017/18 financial year “we have increased the starting salary for a newly qualified nurse by over 12%”. This refers to the basic pay of a newly-qualified nurse, which increased in cash terms by 12.6% between

 

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Look what US nurses earn.

Since when did the truth ever happen to fall out of nadhimzahawi 's mouth?

So the starting salary for an MP is £1m when you include subsidies, expenses, and bribes.

Barclay doing the same they have no idea how employment works you are contracted to work a number of hours for a salary, unless a level of overtime is a specified condition it has no bearing on what you earn.

He's a lying prick that steals public money ey to heat his stables until he got caught.

Then it's not a starting salary nor is it basic salary, he should correct any record he has stated this on. Liar nadhimzahawi

More TORYLIES from an EXPENSES CHEAT !

HarriettmooreB2 Not to mention the extra hours worked for no recompense.

A Cuntservative lying? Shocked I am..

So he lied AGAIN

Ask him how much it costs to heat his stables. Wouldn't have a clue because we pay for it

So that's not salary then.. he lied 🤦🏻‍♂️

So is he correct or not?

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