{"id":4311,"date":"2018-11-13T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wages-show-fastest-rise-in-almost-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:44:44","slug":"wages-show-fastest-rise-in-almost-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wages-show-fastest-rise-in-almost-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Wages show fastest rise in almost a decade"},"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=\"People walking across Canary Wharf\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/7512\/production\/_100907992_workpeoplegetty.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Wages rose at the fastest pace in nearly a decade in the three months to September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/employmentandemployeetypes\/articles\/labourmarketeconomiccommentary\/november2018\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Compared with a year earlier, wages excluding bonuses, rose by 3.2% &#8211; the biggest rise since the end of 2008 and up slightly on the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment total went up for the first time this year, rising by 21,000 in the same period to 1.38 million.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ONS warned that real wage growth was below the 2015 level.<\/p>\n<p>Adjusting for inflation average weekly earnings increased by 0.9% excluding bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate rose to 4.1% from 4.0% in the period from July to September, mainly because of an increase in the number of men out of work.<\/p>\n<p>However, the employment total continued to increase &#8211; going up by 23,000 to a record high of 32.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate of UK nationals (4.2%) was higher than that of EU nationals from the other 27 member countries (3.5%).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46193571\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Wages rose at the fastest pace in nearly a decade in the three months to September, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show. Compared with a year earlier, wages excluding bonuses, rose by 3.2% &#8211; the biggest rise since the end of 2008 and up slightly on the previous quarter. The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4311","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\/4311","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=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}