"Figure 9: Growth in nominal earnings (total pay), consumer price inflation and real earnings, three-month average year-on-year growth, seasonally adjusted","" "Great Britain, December 2006 to February 2007 to December 2016 to February 2017","" "","" "Notes","1. CPIH is inverted to display its subtraction from real wage growth. 2. CPIH is a 3 month average of the current month and two preceding months. 3. Estimates of growth in total real pay (including bonuses) differ slightly from published estimates in ""[Analysis of real earnings: Apr 2017](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/articles/supplementaryanalysisofaverageweeklyearnings/latest)"" due to the different method of implementing the seasonal adjustment." "Unit","%" "","" "","Growth in Nominal Earnings (Total Pay)","CPI-H","Growth in Real Earnings (Total Pay)" "Dec-Feb 2007","6.5","-2.7","3.7" "Mar-May 2007","4.4","-2.7","1.7" "Jun-Aug 2007","4.7","-2.1","2.5" "Sep-Nov 2007","4.8","-2.2","2.6" "Dec-Feb 2008","3.8","-2.5","1.3" "Mar-May 2008","4.6","-3.0","1.5" "Jun-Aug 2008","3.2","-4.1","-0.8" "Sep-Nov 2008","2.9","-4.3","-1.3" "Dec-Feb 2009","-0.5","-3.0","-3.4" "Mar-May 2009","-0.6","-2.4","-2.9" "Jun-Aug 2009","0.5","-1.6","-1.1" "Sep-Nov 2009","0.4","-1.2","-0.8" "Dec-Feb 2010","2.7","-2.2","0.5" "Mar-May 2010","2.7","-2.6","0.2" "Jun-Aug 2010","1.9","-2.3","-0.5" "Sep-Nov 2010","2.2","-2.5","-0.3" "Dec-Feb 2011","2.3","-3.4","-1.1" "Mar-May 2011","2.4","-3.7","-1.3" "Jun-Aug 2011","2.6","-3.8","-1.1" "Sep-Nov 2011","1.9","-4.3","-2.3" "Dec-Feb 2012","0.9","-3.3","-2.3" "Mar-May 2012","1.6","-2.8","-1.2" "Jun-Aug 2012","1.7","-2.3","-0.6" "Sep-Nov 2012","1.5","-2.3","-0.8" "Dec-Feb 2013","1.1","-2.4","-1.3" "Mar-May 2013","1.7","-2.4","-0.6" "Jun-Aug 2013","0.8","-2.4","-1.6" "Sep-Nov 2013","1.0","-2.1","-1.1" "Dec-Feb 2014","1.8","-1.8","0.0" "Mar-May 2014","0.2","-1.5","-1.3" "Jun-Aug 2014","0.8","-1.7","-0.9" "Sep-Nov 2014","1.9","-1.2","0.6" "Dec-Feb 2015","1.8","-0.5","1.2" "Mar-May 2015","3.2","-0.4","2.8" "Jun-Aug 2015","3.0","-0.4","2.7" "Sep-Nov 2015","2.0","-0.3","1.7" "Dec-Feb 2016","2.0","-0.6","1.4" "Mar-May 2016","2.3","-0.7","1.6" "Jun-Aug 2016","2.4","-0.9","1.4" "Sep-Nov 2016","2.8","-1.4","1.4" "Dec-Feb 2017","2.3","-2.0","0.3"