A new survey has found that a quarter of senior managers within the NHS believe they are underpaid.
Evidence from the Managers in Partnership (MiP) which will be presented to the senior salaries review body claims that executives at strategic health authorities, primary care trusts and ambulance trusts should get a 2.25 per cent pay rise, reports the Health Service Journal.
The evidence will be used to oppose calls for a pay freeze on NHS managers which were made earlier this month and are being considered by the government in order to reduce public spending.
MiP's position is at loggerheads with NHS Employers and the Department of Health which both said senior NHS managers should have their pay frozen from 2010.
In the survey of 579 managers, 25 per cent said they were not fairly rewarded, rising to 26 per cent for very senior managers.
MiP chief executive Jon Restell told the news provider: "We are not in the same hair shirt mode as [NHS] Employers or the government but we are not stupid and realise there is an economic crisis."
He added that managers had been annoyed at their pay was being frozen while most other NHS staff were receiving a pay rise via the Agenda for Change pay deal.
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I doubt the survey is anything new and would be replicated across many other sectors. The overall salaries are still generous and 2% of not much is still not much.