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AWE: Whole Economy Year on Year Three Month Average Growth (%): Seasonally Adjusted Total Pay Excluding Arrears
Year on year 3 months average
7.3 %
2021 MAY
- Release date:
- 15 July 2021
- Next release:
- 17 August 2021
Employee earnings in the UK: 2020
What's in the bulletin?
- Statistics in this bulletin (based on the Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2020) relate to the pay period that includes 22 April 2020, at which time approximately 8.8 million employees were furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS); the estimates in this bulletin include furloughed employees and are based on actual payments made to the employee from company payrolls and the hours on which this pay was calculated, which in the case of furloughed employees are their usual hours.
- Median weekly pay for full-time employees was £586 in April 2020, up 0.1% on a year earlier; pay fell in the private sector (negative 0.6%) but not in the public sector (positive 2.4%), following four years of higher pay growth in the private sector; this fall reflects the different job types across each sector and the extent they have been impacted because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
- Across all jobs, median weekly earnings in April remained unchanged from a year earlier on a nominal basis; when adjusted for inflation, they fell 0.9% in real terms over the year.
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AWE: Whole Economy Year on Year Three Month Average Growth (%): Seasonally Adjusted Total Pay Excluding Arrears
Year on year 3 months average
7.3 % 2021 MAY- Release date:
- 15 July 2021
- Next release:
- 17 August 2021
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£ 574 2021 MAY
- Release date:
- 15 July 2021
- Next release:
- 17 August 2021
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AWE: Whole Economy Year on Year Three Month Average Growth (%): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
Year on year 3 months average
6.6 % 2021 MAY- Release date:
- 15 July 2021
- Next release:
- 17 August 2021
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£ 540 2021 MAY
- Release date:
- 15 July 2021
- Next release:
- 17 August 2021
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35 hours 2021 MAR-MAY
- Release date:
- 15 July 2021
- Next release:
- 17 August 2021
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Index of Labour Costs per Hour, seasonally adjusted
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