Workplace Report October 2012

Pay and prices

Annual increases in average weekly earnings (AWE)

Month	Whole economy	Private sector	Public sector	Manu- facturing	Services
June (r)	3.3	3.6	3.3	2.1	3.8
July (r)	3.2	3.0	3.2	1.7	3.3
August (r)	2.2	2.2	2.0	1.1	2.3
September	1.8	1.8	2.1	2.0	1.9
October	2.1	2.3	1.9	1.0	2.4
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 (r)	1.3	1.8	1.0	2.7	1.0
July (r)	1.5	1.7	1.4	2.1	1.4
August (p)	2.3	2.2	3.0	2.5	2.3
Headline rate¹	1.7	1.9	1.8	2.4	1.6

¹ The latest three-month average.

Source: Office for National Statistics

(r) revised, (p) provisional.

Average of average earnings forecasts for 2012 is 1.7% (HM Treasury).