Sir, – Ibec’s framing of their pay survey – repeated in your headline and story (Home News, January 9th) – is thoroughly misleading. True, the survey finds “almost 75 per cent of companies planning to freeze or cut pay”. An equally true and less misleading summary is that: over 90 per cent of companies are planning to maintain or raise pay, because the bulk of firms are planning to make no change at all. In fact, Ibec found that many more firms are planning to increase pay than plan to cut it, but somehow that got less prominence. – Yours, etc,