{"id":3290,"date":"2018-10-16T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T09:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-wage-growth-fastest-for-nearly-10-years\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T09:05:27","slug":"uk-wage-growth-fastest-for-nearly-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-wage-growth-fastest-for-nearly-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"UK wage growth fastest for nearly 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Breaking News image\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/7A23\/production\/_97176213_breaking_news_bigger.png\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Wages excluding bonuses rose by 3.1% in the three months to August, compared with a year ago, their fastest pace in nearly 10 years, official figures show.<\/p>\n<p>Over the same period, the inflation rate was 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also said that UK unemployment fell by 47,000 to 1.36 million in the three months to August.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4%.<\/p>\n<p>David Freeman, the ONS&#8217;s head of labour market, said: &#8220;People&#8217;s regular monthly wage packets grew at their strongest rate in almost a decade, but, allowing for inflation, the growth was much more subdued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of people in work remained at a near-record high, while the unemployment rate was at its lowest since the mid-1970s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane said he saw signs of a &#8220;new dawn&#8221; for wage growth.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45875599\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wages excluding bonuses rose by 3.1% in the three months to August, compared with a year ago, their fastest pace in nearly 10 years, official figures show. Over the same period, the inflation rate was 2.5%. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also said that UK unemployment fell by 47,000 to 1.36 million in the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}