About IRS pay analysis

Latest pay statistics – Datafile | Commentary | IRS pay databank
Pay review update | Latest pay reports | Bargaining statistics
About IRS pay analysis

Find out more about how IRS monitors and analyses pay settlement trends.

  • IRS pay publications
  • Pay settlement analysis
  • IRS pay databank
  • Pay contacts

    IRS pay publications

    The content of both Pay Intelligence and Pay and Benefits Bulletin is now published exclusively online, providing features based on original research, timely analysis of pay awards from the IRS pay databank and comprehensive coverage of pay awards and pay trends across the economy. Subscribers to both now have access to the wide range of pay information available on www.xperthr.co.uk. Visit the User guide to find out more about XpertHR’s pay content. Visit Why XpertHR? to find out more about the benefits of taking out a full subscription to XpertHR.

    Pay settlement analysis

    The IRS monthly pay analysis is one of the most influential indicators of the level of pay settlements, and is a unique published source of pay award statistics independent of government, management or trade unions. Our latest research draws on more than 1,000 pay settlements effective between the three-month period to February 2006 and the three-month period to February 2007, entered onto the IRS pay databank. For more about how IRS monitors pay information and tracks settlement trends, read a guide to IRS pay statistics.

    IRS pay databank

    Established in 1984, the IRS pay databank holds information on more than 23,000 pay awards made during this 22-year period by manufacturing and service employers in the public and private sectors. Most blue-chip organisations operating in the UK and all the main public sector employers are covered. The organisations in the series are the most influential in the economy in pay review “pace-setting”. Settlements are collected by IRS pay analysts through direct contact with employers and unions. Details of settlements are entered onto the databank, maintaining an up-to-date record of developments in key sectors of the economy.

    Pay contacts

    Industrial Relations Services (IRS), tel: 020 8652 3500

    EEF, tel: 020 7222 7777

    Labour Research Department (LRD), tel: 020 7928 3649

    Office for National Statistics (ONS), tel: 0845 601 3034

    ONS recorded message, tel: 01633 456901 (inflation figures).