About 1m private-sector employees can do the same.

And it underlines the pressures faced by private-sector employees as the government's support schemes for business are withdrawn.

That will happen if the rewards for working in the public sector outstrip the money for private-sector employees.

Fewer than one in five private-sector employees are now union members, while three in five in the public sector still are.

Their final salary benefit would be converted to a defined contribution pension, like that of the overwhelming majority of private-sector employees.

A private-sector employer would give an annual pension contribution of only 1,400 - 5.4 per cent - of the average private-sector salary of 27,800.

He has assisted both public and private-sector employers with the successful prevention, detection and investigation of fraud and corruption, as well as the recovery of proceeds of crime.

Forestry companies continue to be the largest private-sector employers in the district.

Her haul was about 680 times the annual salary of the typical private-sector worker.

In contrast, the typical private-sector worker in a defined-contribution scheme will retire on just 7,675.

From 61, the private-sector worker goes part-time, further depressing his earnings.

That's not surprising - they have on average higher levels of education, so for example you would expect a surgeon to get paid more than the average private-sector worker.

Most private-sector workers, if they have a pension at all, have ones linked to investments that have done badly since the 2008 crash.