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Pay data: three months to July 2021

Various research organisations have published pay data for the three months to the end of July 2021.

  • The median pay award across the economy remains at 2.0% for the three months to July 2021, according to the latest analysis by Incomes Data Research (interquartile range: 1.6%-2.5%).
  • Data from the Labour Research Department shows the median standard increase for the three months to July 2021 was 2.2%.
  • XpertHR recorded a median basic pay award of 2.0% across the whole economy for the three months to the end of July (lower quartile: 1.5%; upper quartile: 2.8%).
  • The CIPD’s Summer 2021 Labour Market Outlook predicts the median pay settlement at 2% over the next quarter (private sector: 2.2%; public sector: 1.5%; voluntary sector: 2%)