{"id":7894,"date":"2026-02-10T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/7894\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:38:08","slug":"danske-bank-staff-vote-to-accept-5-2-pay-rise-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/7894\/","title":{"rendered":"Danske Bank staff vote to accept 5.2% pay rise \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Financial Services Union (FSU) and Belfast-headquartered Danske Bank have agreed a pay increase of 5.2% for staff from this April.<\/p>\n

The deal was accepted following a ballot of FSU members working in Danske.<\/p>\n

The agreement includes an overall pay pot of 5.2%, while all eligible grade 2 to grade 8 employees will receive a performance pay matrix percentage increase of between 4% and 7%, or a \u00a31,500 pay increase, whichever is greater.<\/p>\n

All salary pay ranges will move by 3%, and the new minimum starting salary has been increased from \u00a323,500 to \u00a325,000.<\/p>\n

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Mandy LaCombre, senior industrial relations officer with the FSU said: \u201cThis is a positive outcome for our members in Danske Bank. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe agreed pay increase is above the sector average and takes account of economic and labour market data, and the bank\u2019s performance and profitability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was important to the FSU that the pay increase recognised the professional work done by our members.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cThe talks were constructive in nature and the FSU negotiating team felt the bank listened to the member feedback from our recent \u2018Your Say for Better Pay\u2019 member survey. <\/p>\n

\u201cA pay increase of 5.2% is welcome reward for the professionalism and dedication of the staff in Danske Bank who deserve to share in the value they create.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danske Bank, which employs 1,400 staff and currently has 24 bank branches across the north, posted a 12% increase in pre-tax profit of \u00a3250.4 million for 2025 – a figure thought to be unsurpassed in banking history in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Financial Services Union (FSU) and Belfast-headquartered Danske Bank have agreed a pay increase of 5.2% for staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[289,6603,6604],"class_list":{"0":"post-7894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-danske-bank","8":"tag-danske-bank","9":"tag-fsu","10":"tag-pay-rise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}