{"id":1017210,"date":"2026-06-10T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1017210\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:09:20","slug":"pay-rise-to-address-recruitment-crisis-birmingham-mail-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1017210\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay rise to address \u2018recruitment crisis\u2019 | Birmingham Mail &#8211; newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARMED forces personnel will receive a third consecutive above-inflation pay rise, the Government has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:27px;color:#313131;\">Wages will increase by 3.6%, meaning personnel will have been granted a cumulative pay award of 14% since July 2024 as ministers seek to address a recruitment and retention crisis in the military.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:27px;color:#313131;\">The uplift in wages will result in the average salary for the armed forces rising to \u00a345,710, up \u00a31,650 on last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:27px;color:#313131;\">The announcement comes amid speculation on when the delayed defence investment plan (Dip) will be published, with reports of wrangling within Government over how to pay for the plans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:27px;color:#313131;\">Defence Secretary John Healey said the pay rise reflects the sacrifices made by those serving and the Government&#8217;s commitment to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARMED forces personnel will receive a third consecutive above-inflation pay rise, the Government has confirmed. Wages will increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[264001,263998,855,748,264005,393,263996,263995,4884,264004,18753,263999,71119,263997,263992,264003,263993,264002,264000,263994,16,15],"class_list":["post-1017210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-android-magazine","tag-best-magazine","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-digital-magazines","tag-england","tag-free-magazine","tag-free-magazines","tag-great-britain","tag-ipad-magazine","tag-magazine","tag-magazine-subscription","tag-magazines","tag-magazines-for-smartphones","tag-magzter","tag-online-digital-magazine","tag-online-magazine","tag-online-pdf-magazine","tag-pdf-for-smartphones","tag-pdf-magazine","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}