Interests: pay, benefits and pensions; how economic change is impacting on the jobs people do and how they are rewarded; equality and diversity, particularly workplace gender equality and how to achieve it; the role of trade unions.

My job: Editor, pay and benefits, IRS.

Previous jobs: policy adviser for CBI; researcher for Amicus, economy policy officer for the Labour party, employment policy director for Equal Opportunities Commission, local authority councillor in Southwark.

Top three websites at present: news now for quick news; New Economist for a handy selection of economy blogs/links including Evanomics, and Pandora to create your own radio station.

Email : sarah.welfare@rbi.co.uk

Recent posts from Sarah Welfare

• Public sector pay – some winners but mainly losers
• Pay deals in 2008: the evidence
• Details of Royal Mail agreement released
• How to find a job paying less than the NMW: look on the Jobcentre website
• Pay settlements: what will happen in January 2008?
• The IT pay premium
• Inflation ahead of pay deals
• Migration and wages in London
• New govt depts: update
• DTI: reports of death exaggerated