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Private sector pulls Q4 awards down

In the quiet pre-Christmas months, the IRS headline measure of pay awards dipped back to its mid-year low of 2.5%, a steep fall from the 3% level it had held for the previous two rolling quarters.

But this end-of-year dip is not necessarily a sign of things to come.