Average weekly earning growth in the UK compared with inflation 2001-2024

In the three months to September 2024, average weekly earnings in the United Kingdom grew by 4.8 percent, while pay including bonuses grew by 4.3 percent, when compared with the same period in 2023. In the same month, the inflation rate for the Consumer Price Index was 1.7 percent, indicating that wages were rising faster than prices that month. Recent waves of industrial action in the UK One of the main consequences of this combination of high inflation and lower wage growth has been an increase in industrial actions, such as strikes, in the UK. In December 2022, for example, there were approximately 826,000 working days lost due to labor disputes. Throughout this month, workers across a variety of industry sectors were involved in industrial disputes, such as nurses, train drivers, and driving instructors. Many of the workers that took part in strikes were part of the UK's public sector, which saw far weaker wage growth than that of the private sector throughout 2022. Widespread industrial action continued into 2023, with approximately 303,000 workers involved in industrial disputes in March 2023.Average salaries in the UKIn 2023, the average salary for full-time workers in the UK was 34,963 British pounds a year, up from 33,061 in the previous year. In London, the average annual salary was far higher than the rest of the country, at 44,370 pounds per year, compared with just 31,200 in North East England. There also still exists a considerable gender pay gap in the UK, which increased to 7.7 percent for full-time workers in 2023 up from 7.6 percent in 2022. Lastly, the monthly earnings of the top one percent in the UK was over 15,000 pounds as of October 2023, far higher than even that of the top five percent, who earned 7,226 pounds per month, while pay for the lowest 10 percent of earners was just 755 pounds per month.

在2024年9月的三个月内，英国的平均每周收入增长了4.8%，而包括奖金在内的收入增长了4.3%，与2023年同期相比。在同一月份，消费者价格指数的通货膨胀率为1.7%，表明该月的工资增长速度超过了物价上涨。英国近期工业行动的浪潮高通胀与较低工资增长相结合的主要后果之一是英国工业行动的增加，例如罢工。以2022年12月为例，由于劳资纠纷，约有826,000个工作日损失。在整个月份中，来自各个行业领域的工人参与了工业纠纷，如护士、火车司机和驾驶教练。许多参与罢工的工人是英国公共部门的一部分，在整个2022年，其工资增长远低于私营部门。广泛的工业行动持续到2023年，2023年3月，约有303,000名工人参与了工业纠纷。2023年，英国全职工作的平均年薪为34,963英镑，比上一年增长了33,061英镑。在伦敦，平均年薪远高于全国其他地区，为44,370英镑，而英格兰东北部的平均年薪仅为31,200英镑。此外，英国仍然存在相当大的性别薪酬差距，2023年全职工人的性别薪酬差距从2022年的7.6%增加到7.7%。最后，截至2023年10月，英国前1%人群的月收入超过15,000英镑，远高于前5%人群的月收入7,226英镑，而收入最低的10%人群的月收入仅为755英镑。