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Three research organisations have published pay data for the three months to the end of June 2022.

• XpertHR recorded a median basic pay award of 4.0% across the whole economy for the three months to the end of June (lower quartile: 3.0%; upper quartile: 6.0%). Pay freezes remain rare (3%).
• The median pay award across the whole economy stood at 4.0% for the three months to June, according to the latest analysis by Incomes Data Research (interquartile range: 3.0%-5.5%).
• In the three months ending in June 2022, the median increase among pay deals monitored on the Labour Research Department Payline database was 5.0% on lowest pay rates (5.0% in private sector deals, 2.8% in the public sector) and 4.4% for most workers covered by the settlements, the standard median (4.5% in the private sector, 2.5% in the public sector).