Pay data: three months to March 2021

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

  • The median pay award across the economy has fallen from 2.0% to 1.8% for the three months to March 2021, according to the latest analysis by Incomes Data Research (interquartile range: 1.0%-2.3%).
  • Data from the Labour Research Department shows the median standard increase for the three months to March 2021 was 1.9%.
  • XpertHR recorded a median basic pay award of 1% across the whole economy for the three months to the end of March (lower quartile: 0%; upper quartile: 2.0%), with pay freezes remaining commonplace at around a third of recorded settlements.