Workplace Report December 2012

Pay and prices

Average weekly earnings (AWE)

Total pay including bonuses

	Percentage annual increases
Month	Whole economy	Private sector	Public sector	Manu- facturing	Services
Aug 2011 (r)	2.1	2.1	1.9	1.0	2.2
Sept (r)	1.9	2.0	2.1	2.1	1.9
October (r)	2.3	2.4	2.0	1.1	2.5
November	2.0	2.2	1.7	2.1	2.1
December	1.9	2.2	1.3	1.3	2.3
January 2012	0.1	-0.1	0.8	0.8	-0.2
February	0.8	0.7	1.2	2.2	0.8
March	1.0	1.0	0.5	-0.5	1.1
April	2.3	2.7	1.4	2.4	2.3
May	1.8	2.0	1.6	2.9	1.6
June	1.3	1.8	1.0	2.7	1.0
July	1.5	1.6	1.4	2.0	1.4
August	2.3	2.2	3.1	2.6	2.4
September (r)	1.8	1.7	2.2	1.2	2.0
October (p)	1.3	1.2	2.1	1.8	1.3
Headline rate¹	1.8	1.7	2.5	1.9	1.9

¹The latest three-month average

Source: Office for National Statistics

(r) revised, (p) provisional

Average of average earnings forecasts for 2013 is 2.3% (HM Treasury)