{"id":77225,"date":"2025-10-14T06:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77225\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:27:07","slug":"wage-growth-slows-slightly-over-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77225\/","title":{"rendered":"Wage growth slows slightly over summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Wage growth in the UK cooled slightly over the summer, as unemployment ticked up slightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Annual growth in employees&#8217; average earnings was 4.7% in the three months to August, down from 4.8% over the previous three months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The national unemployment rate was 4.8% in August, a slight increase from 4.7% in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The ONS has said the unemployment figures should be treated with caution and it is taking additional steps to address concerns about the quality of the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wage growth in the UK cooled slightly over the summer, as unemployment ticked up slightly. Annual growth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[138,232,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-77225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}