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Pay awards set to reach 2.5% by next September

by Ashleigh Webber 21 Oct 2021
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Private sector employers expect that the average pay settlement will rise to 2.5% by next September, according to XpertHR.

Some 84.4% of organisations polled expect to increase pay at their next annual review and half of employees are expected to receive a higher award than they did over the past year.

Sheila Attwood, XpertHR pay and benefits editor, said: “For much of the last year, organisations have continued to feel the impact of the coronavirus outbreak and pay awards have remained muted. However, many employers have reported that Covid-19 is likely to have less of an impact on their future pay plans, with pay awards predicted to increase to 2.5% by September 2022.

“Driving these increases will be a need to respond to the market, with recruitment and retention difficulties pushing wages higher. However, while many organisations also believe that some economic recovery will enable them to award higher increases at their annual pay review, others are still concerned about business volumes and are likely to remain cautious.”

Asked about their forecasts for pay awards in the 12 months to 31 August 2022, almost a quarter of employers expected to award a 2% pay increase – the most common prediction – and a fifth expected to increase pay by 3%.

One in 10 organisations polled expected to award a pay increase of 4% or higher.

The median pay increase, based on the predictions of 200 private sector employers was therefore expected to be 2.5% in the year to the end of August 2022, up from the 1.6% recorded over the previous year.

Employers in both manufacturing and production and private sector services are predicting a median 2.5% pay award. In both sectors the middle half of pay awards are expected to sit between 2% and 3%.

Looking at pay data for the three months to the end of September 2021, XpertHR recorded a median pay increase of 2% – a figure that has remained unchanged for six consecutive rolling quarters.

Its analysis of 84 pay awards effective in the three months to 30 September 2021 also found that:

  • 8.3% implemented a pay freeze
  • 60.9% of pay awards were higher than what the same group of employees received the previous year, 26.6% of employees received a lower award and 12.5% received the same
  • Public sector settlements were worth 1.5% at the median, down half a percentage point on the previous rolling year, and down one percentage point from the 2.5% recorded a year ago
  • Private sector awards increased to 1.7% from 1.6% in the year to the end of August.

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Ashleigh Webber
Ashleigh Webber

Ashleigh is editor at OHW+ and HR and wellbeing editor at Personnel Today. Ashleigh's areas of interest include employee health and wellbeing, equality and inclusion and skills development. She has hosted many webinars for Personnel Today, on topics including employee retention, financial wellbeing and menopause support. Prior to joining Personnel Today in 2018, she covered the road transport sector for Commercial Motor and Motor Transport magazines, touching on some of the employment and wellbeing issues experienced by those in road haulage.

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