Key economic indicators
Inflation +5.3%, Average earnings +1.3%
Earnings and pay
| % annual rise in average weekly earnings1 | % rise in LRD pay deals2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole economy | Manu-facturing | Services | Private sector | Public sector3 | ||
| Feb 2010 (r) | 5.8 | 5.4 | 6.0 | 6.8 | 2.6 | 2.0 |
| March | 6.8 | 9.5 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 3.1 | 2.0 |
| April | 0.4 | 3.7 | 0.3 | -0.5 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| May | 0.9 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | -0.2 | 2.0 |
| June | 1.1 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| July | 1.8 | 4.7 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 |
| August | 2.1 | 4.2 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 2.2 |
| September | 2.2 | 3.9 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| October | 2.0 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| November | 2.1 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.5 |
| December | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 2.5 |
| Jan 2011 (r) | 3.7 | 2.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 3.0 |
| February (p) | 1.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 3.0 |
| Headline rate4 for February | 2.0 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 |
1Increases in average weekly earnings across industrial sectors in Great Britain, seasonally adjusted, as monitored by National Statistics.
2 Midpoint pay increase among settlements reached in the previous three months, as recorded on the Labour Research Department’s Payline database.
3 Excludes financial services.
4 Average of the earnings increase figures for the latest three months compared with a year earlier.
(r) revised (p) provisional
Inflation
| Retail Prices Index1 (RPI) | % annual increase in RPI | % annual increase in Consumer Prices Index | |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2009 | 216.0 | -0.8 | 1.5 |
| November | 216.6 | 0.3 | 1.9 |
| December | 218.0 | 2.4 | 2.9 |
| January 2010 | 217.9 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| February | 219.2 | 3.7 | 3.0 |
| March | 220.7 | 4.4 | 3.4 |
| April | 222.8 | 5.3 | 3.7 |
| May | 223.6 | 5.1 | 3.4 |
| June | 224.1 | 5.0 | 3.2 |
| July | 223.6 | 4.8 | 3.1 |
| August | 224.5 | 4.7 | 3.1 |
| September | 225.3 | 4.6 | 3.1 |
| October | 225.8 | 4.5 | 3.2 |
| November | 226.8 | 4.7 | 3.3 |
| December | 228.4 | 4.8 | 3.7 |
| January 2011 | 229.0 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| February | 231.3 | 5.5 | 4.4 |
| March | 232.5 | 5.3 | 4.0 |
1 January 1987=100
Source: National Statistics
Full-time average weekly earnings by occupation
| All workers | £600.70 |
| All male | £655.90 |
| All female | £515.20 |
| Managers | £880.00 |
| Professionals | £797.10 |
| Associate professionals1 | £619.00 |
| Administrative and secretarial | £421.10 |
| Skilled/craft | £496.00 |
| Services2 | £356.40 |
| Sales | £332.20 |
| Operatives | £456.10 |
| Other manual jobs3 | £354.70 |
1 Includes technicians, police, firefighters, nurses, media/PR workers, train drivers, legal and finance workers and sales reps.
2 Personal service occupations such as care workers, travel assistants, hairdressers and caretakers.
3 “Elementary” occupations including farm workers, labourers, dockers, postal workers, porters, waiters and cleaners.
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2010 (uprated)