Are Senior Pay freezes a good thing?

Senior Management and Director pay in public service seems to have gone up and up recently. Are we really attracting better talent, or is it a game of "who can have the most expensive Chief Exec"? Public Servants used to be motivated to serve the public. The rewards are (still) there - job security, first class training, holidays, hours, gold-plated pension, an honour from the queen. Salaries weren't quite as good as the private sector, but the overall package was probably about the same Attitudes are changing. But which came first? Did higher pay make people focus on money and forget service, or did people leave the Service in droves because pay wasn't good enough? There's a place for high pay - and it goes with high personal risk. We may make life and death decisions, but it isn't usually our own lives we're deciding about. I think it's only right that people take the rough with the smooth and show some real empathy with the suffering of the people we serve http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/workforce/civil-servant-pay-freeze-announced/5007034.article