"The DHB offer on pay is about a tenth of what members have asked for," says David Wait, NZNO industrial advisor for the DHB sector. Some senior nurses and nurse practitioners are being offered an increase of less than 1 percent. "What we've been offered is lower than the rate of inflation. Decade upon decade it's actually a pay cut if you look at it realistically. The price of stuff goes up but our salaries don't," says a nurse practitioner who spoke to Newshub under the condition of anonymity. DHBs made their offer on March 25 - the union put it to members last week.