Historical consultant pay
Have been messing about with inflation calculator in bored moments.
2008 is often used as a salary comparator (incidentally the year that I was appointed), but it was to be fair a salary high point.
What about further back? Google tells me that consultant pay was in the range 42.5 to 52k in 1997 when I qualified. It doesn't seem that much, yet even the younger consultants seemed pretty wealthy.....usually kids in private schools, often single salary family and we were invited to some pretty impressive places for drinks (this was London btw).
Was this really what people were earning, or were there lots of supplements? I know that cea was big back then and private practice was very popular in London. Or is it mainly because things like private schools and housing have inflated much faster than headline figures.