Pay data: three months to June 2021

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

  • The median pay award across the economy stands at 2.0% for the three months to June 2021, according to the latest analysis by Incomes Data Research (interquartile range: 1.0%-2.4%).
  • Data from the Labour Research Department shows the median standard increase for the three months to June 2021 was 2.0%.
  • XpertHR recorded a median basic pay award of 2.0% across the whole economy for the three months to the end of June (lower quartile: 1.0%; upper quartile: 2.3%), with the proportion of pay reviews resulting in a pay freeze falling to 16%. XpertHR comments that while the start of the year saw pay deals picking up quite markedly, ‘we are unlikely to see this level of acceleration continue’.