May’s figures paint a picture of a labour market well on its way to recovery and will further fuel concerns about labour shortages and the possible boost to inflation from higher wage growth. But past revisions to the data suggest there is still slack in the jobs market. We think that a sustained rise in pay growth won’t take place until 2023 and that an interest rate rise is further away than the financial markets think.
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