Earnings And Employment From Pay As You Earn Real Time Information UK - November 2023

14th November 2023

Early estimates for October 2023 indicate that the number of payrolled employees rose by 1.3% compared with October 2022, a rise of 398,000 employees; the number of payrolled employees was up by 4.1% since February 2020, a rise of 1,190,000.

This annual increase was largest in the health and social work sector, a rise of 221,000 employees.

Payrolled employment increased by 33,000 employees (0.1%) in October 2023 when compared with September 2023; this should be treated as a provisional estimate and is likely to be revised when more data are received next month.

UK payrolled employee growth for September 2023 compared with August 2023 has been revised from a decrease of 11,000 reported in the last bulletin to an increase of 32,000, because of the incorporation of additional real time information (RTI) submissions into the statistics, which takes place every publication and reduces the need for imputation.

Early estimates for October 2023 indicate that median monthly pay increased by 5.9% compared with October 2022, and increased by 22.3% when compared with February 2020.

Annual growth in median pay in October 2023 was highest in the other service activities sector, with an increase of 8.2%, and lowest in the information and communication sector, with an increase of 3.8%.

Payrolled employees
Early estimates for October 2023 indicate that there were 30.2 million payrolled employees (Figure 1), a rise of 1.3% compared with the same period of the previous year. This is a rise of 398,000 people over the 12-month period. Compared with the previous month, the number of payrolled employees increased by 0.1% in October 2023, an increase of 33,000 people.

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