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  • Date:
    5 October 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Review of pay awards 2023: Manufacturing and production

    Pay awards across the manufacturing-and-production sector remained in line with the whole economy, but some industries have seen higher settlements than others.

  • Date:
    5 October 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Review of pay awards 2023: Private-sector services

    Pay awards for private-sector-services organisations are consistent with the whole economy, standing high after an unprecedented year of record pay settlements.

  • Date:
    5 October 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Review of pay awards 2023: Public services

    The public-sector organisations that have implemented pay awards over the past year have typically done so at a level above that paid a year earlier and often in favour of lower-paid staff. We look at the detail, including key settlements in the sector.

  • Date:
    5 October 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Review of pay awards 2023: Not-for-profit

    Despite a marked increase on the previous year, pay awards in the not-for-profit sector continue to fall behind those in most other sectors.

  • Date:
    21 September 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Pay trends September 2023: Slowdown in pay awards continues

    The latest XpertHR analysis of pay awards again shows a slowdown in growth overall, although public-sector pay deals are starting to come in at record levels.

  • Date:
    21 September 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Review of pay awards 2023: Pay bargaining calendar

    In this report we provide an overview of when in the year pay settlements are implemented and details of when pay review budgets are set.

  • Date:
    21 September 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Review of pay awards 2023: Basic and performance-related pay awards - an extraordinary year

    With pay awards reaching the highest levels of the last 30 years, we review the trends in both basic pay awards and those based on a measure of performance.

  • Date:
    19 September 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Three ways to start to close the ethnicity pay gap

    The Government has released its guidance on ethnicity pay reporting. Here, HR, finance and leadership specialist and author Roianne Nedd considers some of the approach's assumptions and shortcomings, and makes three recommendations to help employers tackle ethnicity pay inequalities.

  • Date:
    24 August 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Pay trends August 2023: Pay awards dip below 6% for the first time in 2023

    For the first time in 2023, preliminary settlement analysis from XpertHR indicates the median pay award has dropped below 6%.

  • Date:
    7 August 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    The most popular employee benefits in 2023

    Looking to update your benefits package but don't know where to start? Based on the findings of our new survey, we explore the most popular benefits in 2023 to help employers stand out from the competition.

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