Economy

Average weekly pay after inflation was 0.9% higher in May to July 2026 than a year earlier

Growth in average weekly pay on a year earlier, before and after inflation, and average weekly pay at 2015 prices, Great Britain, 2000 to 2026. Total pay including bonuses, seasonally adjusted.

Latest figures

Notes

• Average weekly earnings come from the ONS's Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey of employers. They cover employees in Great Britain, including bonuses, and leave out the self-employed.
• Pay after inflation is the ONS's own series, which adjusts pay for the change in consumer prices measured by the CPIH, the ONS's lead measure of inflation. Pay at 2015 prices is a single month's pay in pounds with the buying power they had in 2015.
• Growth rates compare average pay over three months with the same three months a year earlier. Figures are revised in later releases.
• Growth rates in 2020 and 2021 were affected by the pandemic, when pay fell as many employees were furloughed and then recovered, and by changes in the mix of jobs as lower-paid work was lost.

Sources

• Office for National Statistics, Average weekly earnings: real and nominal total pay (A3WX, A3WW, KAC3)

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• Consumer prices rose 3.1% in the year to August 2026
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