"Figure 2: Growth in real hourly pay for full-time employees was positive in 2020 while real weekly pay growth was negative","" "Real gross weekly earnings growth against real gross hourly earnings growth for full-time employees, UK, 1998 to 2020","" "","" "Notes","Footnotes applicable to this chart are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in [Section 6: Measuring the data](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2020#measuring-the-data)." "Unit","%" "","" "","Growth in weekly earnings","Growth in hourly earnings" "1998","2.4","2.2" "1999","1.1","2.1" "2000","3.0","2.6" "2001","3.1","3.1" "2002","2.3","2.7" "2003","1.8","1.9" "2004","3.5","3.7" "2005","0.9","1.2" "2006","1.3","1.7" "2007","0.4","0.4" "2008","1.6","1.4" "2009","-0.3","1.4" "2010","-0.6","-1.4" "2011","-3.3","-2.6" "2012","-1.2","-1.3" "2013","0.0","0.1" "2014","-1.5","-1.4" "2015","1.4","1.2" "2016","1.5","1.6" "2017","-0.5","-0.2" "2018","1.1","0.4" "2019","1.0","1.7" "2020","-0.9","0.7"