Workplace Report October 2010

Pay and prices

Annual increase in average weekly earnings (AWE) including bonuses

Month	Whole economy	Private sector	Public sector	Manu- facturing	Services
June (r) 2009	1.2	0.6	3.9	1.1	1.5
July (r)	0.4	-0.5	3.3	-0.7	0.7
August	0.7	-0.4	3.6	1.4	0.6
September	1.0	0.0	3.8	1.8	1.2
October	0.3	-0.6	3.8	1.5	0.6
November	1.0	0.1	3.9	1.8	1.1
December	0.5	0.2	3.4	3.4	0.8
January 2010	0.4	-0.8	4.1	3.8	-0.3
February	5.5	5.8	3.8	5.3	5.5
March	6.8	7.3	5.7	9.5	6.4
April	0.4	-0.5	3.2	3.7	0.3
May	0.9	0.9	1.0	4.1	1.0
June	1.1	0.1	4.4	3.2	0.9
July (r)	1.9	1.7	2.2	4.7	1.8
August (p)	2.1	1.8	2.0	4.9	2.0
Headline rate¹	1.7	1.2	2.9	4.3	1.6

¹The latest three-month average.

Source: National Statistics (r) revised, (p) provisional.

Average of average earnings forecasts for 2010 is 2.5% (HM Treasury).