Pay Intelligence September 2007: Pay bargaining year ends at 3.5%

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Summary of key pay data

IRS headline measure of pay settlements: 3.5% in the three months to 31 August 2007

Release date: 21 September 2007

Next release date: 19 October 2007 

The usual content of the next Pay Intelligence will be replaced with our annual review of the pay bargaining year, containing our analysis of pay awards over the past two years, the findings of our pay prospects survey and the economic outlook for the year ahead.

Summary: Pay settlements were unchanged at 3.5% in the three months to the end of August 2007, while the government's policy of pay restraint in the public sector continues to cause anger among public sector employees.

Once a month, the latest monthly pay trends analysis from IRS appears here, alongside links to the latest inflation and earnings data. Twice a month, we update both the economic forecasts collected by IRS and the pay review update table containing summaries of the latest pay settlements.

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