CE UK Wage Indicator suggests pay growth is stuck at 5%

4th November 2025

Our CE UK Wage Indicator extracts the overall signal from a range of measures of wage growth and suggests that while pay growth probably isn’t rising as fast as the official data suggest, it isn’t slowing much either and remains well above rates consistent with the Bank of England’s inflation target.

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