Employee motivation high as ONS reveals earnings increase

Date: 16/12/2010

Bosses in the UK should see high employee motivation as it is revealed that staff earnings have increased.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown that average pay including bonuses increased by 2.2 per cent in the three months ending October this year.

Excluding bonuses, pay also increased from September 2010 from 2.2 per cent to 2.3 per cent in October.

With regards to public and private pay divides, pay increases in the private sector were at just two per cent, compared with 2.4 per cent in the public sector.

Excluding bonuses, private sector pay increased by 2.2 per cent and public sector by 2.3 per cent.

This follows other statistics revealed by the ONS which revealed that the pay divide between men and women is narrowing.

The difference between full-time pay packets fell from 12.2 per cent last year to 10.2 per cent this year, according to the social statistics provider.

Posted by Elizabeth Mewes 

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