The latest economic and labour market statistics.

This tool keeps you up to date with:

Economic trends, including inflation.
Labour market information, including unemployment rates.
Pay and hours figures, including average earnings.

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Economic trends

Inflation

Updated to include official inflation data from the ONS for August 2020, along with the latest forecasts from our panel of economists. The next ONS release date is 21 October 2020.
Business confidence: private sector

Updated to include the outlook on the services industry from the CBI Quarterly Service Sector Survey, August 2020.

Labour market

Employment

Updated to include the latest official statistics from the ONS on employment and unemployment, and labour market forecasts from HM Treasury and ManpowerGroup. The next ONS release date is 13 October 2020.
Recruitment

Updated to include data for August 2020 on the availability and recruitment of permanent and temporary staff from IHS Markit/KPMG/Recruitment & Employment Confederation. The next figures are due to be published on 8 October 2020.
Labour disputes

Updated on 21 April 2020 to include a note from the ONS in response to the coronavirus pandemic and changes to the labour disputes section of the monthly labour market report.

Pay and hours

Working hours

Updated to include official statistics from the ONS on average weekly hours worked in the UK for the three months to the end of July 2020. The next ONS release date is 13 October 2020.
Average earnings

Updated to include official earnings data from the ONS for July 2020, and forecasts from XpertHR. The next ONS release date is 13 October 2020.
Pay awards

Updated to include the XpertHR pay settlement data for the three months to the end of July 2020. XpertHR will publish the next pay figures on 24 September 2020.
ASHE data | Sectoral figures

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2019, including the differences in earnings between the public and private sectors and median hourly pay and gender pay gap by sector. The next ONS release date is October 2020.
ASHE data | Regional figures

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2019, including median hourly pay and gender pay gap by region. The next ONS release date is October 2020.
ASHE data | Summary

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2019. The next ONS release date is October 2020.
ASHE data | Headline figures

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2019, including on the gender pay gap. The next ONS release date is October 2020.
ASHE data | Occupational figures

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2019, including median hourly pay and gender pay gap by occupation. The next ONS release date is October 2020.
Guide to official pay figures

Here we present an HR practitioner's comparative guide to the two main official sources of pay information: the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and average weekly earnings (AWE).

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