{"id":328031,"date":"2025-08-08T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328031\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:00:11","slug":"private-sector-pensions-lag-those-of-civil-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328031\/","title":{"rendered":"Private sector pensions lag those of civil servants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/eb531f36c8f5a067d33d3d8d91cfb3d3_intime-athens-man-pensioner-walking-reflection-1.jpg\" alt=\"Private sector pensions lag those of civil servants\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/eb531f36c8f5a067d33d3d8d91cfb3d3_intime-athens-man-pensioner-walking-reflection-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man walks past a shop in downtown Athens. [Intime News]<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year financial crisis disproportionately hit the incomes of private sector employees compared to those of civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s creditors also imposed pension cuts that hit the private sector the hardest. The most recent pensioners have been affected more than the older ones too.<\/p>\n<p>The average monthly pension now stands at \u20ac843.63 pretax and 60% of all pensioners get a monthly pension of \u20ac1,000 or less. But, while the average pension for new private sector pensioners is \u20ac760.16, pretax, that of civil servants is \u20ac1,327.67, which is 74.6% higher.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a disparity between men and women pensioners, with the men\u2019s pensions averaging about \u20ac250 more than women\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The crushing austerity imposed on an essentially bankrupt Greece by its creditors at least reduced the number of young full pensioners, with some of them being in their 30s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man walks past a shop in downtown Athens. [Intime News] The 10-year financial crisis disproportionately hit the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,1700,474,2074,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-328031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-pension","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114993510711439982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328031","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=328031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}