Forecasts of low pay awards are borne out

Our analysis of the latest pay settlement trends reveals that the predictions employers made at the beginning of the year have run true. They were cautious at the time, predicting increases of just 2% to employees. We examine the full pattern of pay awards in the three months to the end of June 2015 in our pay trends article, and consider how the Summer Budget announcements on the national living wage and public sector pay policy will impact on employers' wage costs.

The full set of pay settlement data for the three months to the end of June 2015 is available on XpertHR Benchmarking.