{"id":120854,"date":"2025-10-14T06:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120854\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:42:07","slug":"wage-growth-slows-slightly-over-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120854\/","title":{"rendered":"Wage growth slows slightly over summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Wage growth in the UK cooled slightly over the summer, as unemployment ticked up slightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Annual growth in employees&#8217; average earnings was 4.7% in the three months to August, down from 4.8% over the previous three months, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The national unemployment rate was 4.8% in August, a slight increase from 4.7% in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The ONS has said the unemployment figures should be treated with caution and it is taking additional steps to address concerns about the quality of the data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Liz McKeown, the ONS&#8217;s director of economic statistics, said: &#8220;The increase in unemployment was driven mostly by younger people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Private sector earnings growth was the lowest in four years but was still ahead of inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Annual growth in workers&#8217; average earnings was 6% for the public sector and 4.4% for the private sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The ONS said the public sector annual growth rate is affected by some public sector pay rises being paid earlier in 2025 than in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">After the public sector, the wholesaling, retailing, hotels and restaurants sector showed the strongest regular annual growth rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wage growth in the UK cooled slightly over the summer, as unemployment ticked up slightly. Annual growth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[79,18,19,17,227],"class_list":{"0":"post-120854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jobs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}