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- Type:
- Editor's choice
Updated to include new benchmarking survey data on pay awards January 2026.
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- Date:
- 21 January 2026
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- Survey analysis
As we look ahead to 2026, pay awards are expected to remain close to the 3% median recorded for much of 2025.
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- Date:
- 20 January 2026
- Type:
- Editor's choice
Whether you're ahead of the game and have already settled your 2026 pay review, or are still working through the process, our latest pay forecasts survey is for you!
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- Type:
- Economic data
Updated to include official earnings data from the ONS for November 2025. The next ONS release date is 17 February 2026.
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- Type:
- Editor's choice
Updated to promote our upcoming webinar which will provide a guide to the Employment Rights Act 2025, also to outline future resource updates that will happen as a result of the Act.
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- Type:
- International
Updated to reflect changes to minimum wage rules in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Turkey and UAE, effective from 1 January 2026.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Updated to reflect that the Employment Rights Bill received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Updated to reflect that the Employment Rights Bill received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025.
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- Type:
- Economic data
Updated to include the Brightmine pay settlement data for the three months to the end of November 2025. Brightmine will publish the next pay figures on 21 January 2026.
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- Date:
- 17 December 2025
- Type:
- Survey analysis
After a short-lived lift from public-sector pay deals in the autumn, the UK's median basic pay award has settled back to 3%, confirming 2025 as a year of flatter, more subdued pay growth than 2024.