Workplace Report September 2011

Pay and prices

Annual increases in average weekly earnings (AWE) including bonuses

Month	Whole economy	Private sector	Public sector	Manu- facturing	Services
May (r) 2010	1.6	1.2	1.8	4.3	1.1
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	2.2	2.0	2.4	3.9	2.3
October	2.0	2.0	2.6	3.9	2.4
November	2.1	2.0	2.4	2.9	2.5
December	1.2	1.1	2.2	1.3	1.7
Jan 2011	3.9	4.2	2.4	2.3	4.2
February	1.5	0.9	2.2	0.1	1.3
March (r)	2.0	1.8	2.2	0.2	2.6
April (r)	2.5	2.6	2.1	1.7	3.0
May (r)	2.5	2.5	2.1	1.3	2.7
June (r)	3.1	3.7	2.3	2.1	3.7
July (p)	2.9	3.0	2.8	1.7	3.2
Headline rate¹	2.8	3.1	2.4	1.7	3.2

¹The latest three-month average.

(r) revised, (p) provisional.

Source: National Statistics

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