2006 pay awards: 3% dominates

Pay awards stayed put at 3% during the final rolling quarter of 2006, but a sneak preview of January deals suggests that pay settlements may shift upwards as the new year's pay awards start to roll in.

Provisional analysis of the pay awards settled during the last three months of 2006 reveals that the median - midpoint in the range - pay award has stayed pegged at 3% in the rolling quarter to 31 December 2006.