"Figure 1: Earnings growth is at its highest since the 2008 economic downturn","" "Growth in average weekly earnings by earnings growth quartile, UK, 2002 to 2008","" "","" "Notes","1. 2018 data are provisional. " "Unit","%" "","" "","1st quartile","2nd quartile (median)","3rd quartile " "2002","-0.4800655","4.0612198","12.24484" "2003","-1.079582","3.8921853","11.59471" "2004","-0.2801871","3.805587","11.46839" "2005","-0.1241262","4.8516711","12.11584" "2006","-0.3742787","3.5982402","10.66566" "2007","-0.1356856","3.8188299","10.99708" "2008","-0.0653839","4.033463","11.00115" "2009","-1.925786","2.9129573","9.029876" "2010","-1.097739","1.7479964","7.268829" "2011","-1.21066","2.0926818","7.457944" "2012","-0.2255081","2.0251902","7.296514" "2013","-0.2311801","1.8185157","7.261463" "2014","-0.2889368","2.0394468","7.746792" "2015","-0.1698463","2.2922099","8.557492" "2016","-0.1855673","2.1559527","8.883419" "2017","-0.2156711","2.1428794","8.539677" "2018","-0.0799976","2.5578978","9.302147"