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Between the lines: More new jobs and better pay: welcome to the public sector
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IF YOU want to get ahead in Scotland, get in the public sector.
The pay is better. It is also rising faster than in the private
sector. And so, too, are job opportunities.
So why take on all the risk-taking, uncertainty and general hassle
of life in the private sector when the more safe and rewarding world
of government beckons?
A revealing snapshot of public sector employment trends is set out
in an article in the latest edition of Scottish Economic Statistics.
It will make business readers squirm. It shows a pyramid organogram,
which I reproduce here, of the house of the public sector and ...
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