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.

Learn more

Economic trends

Inflation

Updated to include official inflation data from the ONS for March 2019, along with the latest forecasts from our panel of economists. The next ONS release date is 22 May 2019.
Business confidence: private sector

Updated to include the outlook on the financial services industry from the CBI/PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Services Survey, March 2019.

Labour market

Labour disputes

Updated to include official statistics from the ONS for February 2019 on days lost to labour disputes and the number of stoppages. The next ONS release date is 14 May 2019.
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 14 May 2019.
Recruitment

Updated to include data for March 2019 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 9 May 2019.

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 February 2019. The next ONS release date is 14 May 2019.
Average earnings

Updated to include official earnings data from the ONS for February 2019, and forecasts from XpertHR. The next ONS release date is 14 May 2019.
Pay awards

Updated to include the XpertHR pay settlement data for the three months to the end of February 2019. XpertHR will publish the next pay figures on 25 April 2019.
ASHE data | Summary

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2018. The next ONS release date is October 2019.
ASHE data | Headline figures

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2018, including on the gender pay gap. The next ONS release date is October 2019.
ASHE data | Occupational figures

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2018, including median hourly pay and gender pay gap by occupation. The next ONS release date is October 2019.
ASHE data | Sectoral figures

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2018, 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 2019.
ASHE data | Regional figures

Updated to include the latest headline pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2018, including median hourly pay and gender pay gap by region. The next ONS release date is October 2019.
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).

You said it...

XpertHR is an excellent and comprehensive reference source that is easy to use and always up to date.

Andrea Wallbank, HR manager, Business in Focus

Main navigation

Task categories

Example tasks

Key topics

Trending topics

Employment law

Templates and workflow

General HR

Surveys and benchmarking

Employment law: Quick look-up

Employment law support

Good practice

XpertHR.co.uk

Indicators

The latest economic and labour market statistics.

Economic trends

Labour market

Pay and hours

You said it...

Related resources

Economic indicators: key resources

Explore XpertHR

Learn more

Get in touch

Connect with us