Employee earnings in the UK

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Commenting on today’s figures, ONS senior statistician Roger Smith said:

“Earnings continued to increase in the latest year. In recent years this has been fastest among the lowest-paid occupations. However, taking inflation into account, real pay is still some way below its pre-crisis level.

“The gender pay gap has been falling slowly in recent years for full-time employees, but in 2019 it was little changed. However, for employees under 40, the gap is now close to zero; it’s among older workers that the pay gap remains substantial.”

The ONS has today published the 2019 findings of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. As with last year’s result, there are now three separate bulletins, one looking at the overall results, one looking at the gender pay gap and the third looking at the distribution of high and low earnings.

Main points

Median weekly earnings for full-time employees reached £585 in April 2019, an increase of 2.9% since April 2018.
In real terms (after adjusting for inflation), median full-time employee earnings increased by 0.9% in the year to April 2019.
The following releases are available below:

The Employee earnings in the UK: 2019

The Gender pay gap in the UK: 2019

The Low and high pay in the UK: 2019