Pay rises outstrip 1.6% inflation

Press Association
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File photo dated 15/07/09 of a person passing a Job Centre Plus, as unemployment fell by 77,000 between December and February to 2.24 million, official figures showed today. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday April 16, 2014. See PA story INDUSTRY Unemployment. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
File photo dated 15/07/09 of a person passing a Job Centre Plus, as unemployment fell by 77,000 between December and February to 2.24 million, official figures showed today. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday April 16, 2014. See PA story INDUSTRY Unemployment. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Average pay rises have outstripped CPI inflation for the first time in four years, official figures showed today.

Pay, including bonuses, was 1.7% higher in the year to February, compared to the latest CPI inflation rate of 1.6%.

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