{"id":13927,"date":"2026-01-20T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13927"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:05:02","slug":"uk-wage-growth-eases-and-payrolls-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13927","title":{"rendered":"UK wage growth eases and payrolls drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Wage growth in the UK eased to 4.5% between September and November, official figures suggest, following a sharp slowdown in private sector pay increases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The pace of pay growth for those employed by private businesses slowed to the lowest rate in five years, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In contrast, public sector workers saw their wages jump but, the ONS said, this was likely due to pay rises being awarded earlier than in the previous year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Meanwhile, the number of people on company payrolls continued to fall &#8211; down 135,000 in the three months to November &#8211; with a particular decline in shops and hospitality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This was despite the economy heading for the key Christmas season when companies traditionally hire more pub and shop workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Average wages excluding bonuses increased by 4.6% between August and October.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#wage #growth #eases #payrolls #drop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wage growth in the UK eased to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}