HR employees are 'paid more but working longer'

HR employees are 'paid more but working longer'

23.9.2008

Human resources (HR) employees are seeing an increase in their salaries, but are having to work longer hours to receive it, a new report shows.

The Annual Croner Reward and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) 2008 reward survey looked at the earnings of more than 5,700 HR professionals.

On average, despite many companies making pay-cuts and redundancies due to the credit crunch, salaries had increased by 3.25 per cent.

However, the survey also showed that 73 per cent of people asked were working more than 40 hours per week.

Charles Cotton, reward advisor at the CIPD said: "The fact that HR rewards have held up so well indicates the important role that many in our profession exercise in creating and sustaining a high performance culture."

Meanwhile, research by 3 UK has shown that even when out of the office people are still working, as a quarter dealt with work-related matters when on public transport.

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