The Hutton review is unlikely to solve the “wicked” problem of executive pay in the public sector

Abstract

In a time of fiscal austerity in government, the pay levels for senior civil servants have come under increasing scrutiny. Sandy Pepper finds that despite the public’s seeming opposition to high pay in the public sector, there are no easy fixes, and that some of the recommendations in Will Hutton’s review may actually have the opposite outcome to what is intended