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Pay data: three months to May 2020

Various research organisations have published pay data for the three months to May 2020.

  • The median pay outcome across the economy remains at 2.5% for the three months to May 2020, according to the latest monitoring by Incomes Data Research.
  • Data from the Labour Research Department’s Payline shows the median at 2.5%.
  • XpertHR shows the median basic pay award across the whole economy in the three months to May at 2.2% (lower quartile: 2%; upper quartile: 3%). Over 15% of settlements recorded were pay freezes, double the number recorded by XpertHR in the three months to April 2020.