Workplace Report January 2011

Pay and prices

Annual increase in average weekly earnings (AWE) including bonuses

Month Whole economy Private sector Public sector Manu- facturing Services
Sept 2009 1.0 -0.1 3.7 1.8 1.0
October (r) 0.0 -0.7 3.7 1.5 0.4
November (r) 1.2 0.1 3.9 2.0 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 1.8 1.7 2.2 4.7 1.8
August 2.1 1.9 2.2 4.2 2.1
September (r) 2.2 2.0 2.4 3.9 2.3
October (r) 2.0 2.0 2.6 3.9 2.4
November (p) 2.0 1.7 2.2 2.7 2.1
Headline rate1 2.1 1.9 2.4 3.5 2.3

1 The latest three-month average

Source: National Statistics

(r) revised, (p) provisional

Average of average earnings forecasts for 2011 is 2.6% (HM Treasury).