Employees may receive above-inflation pay rises for the first time since 2016, according to expectations in a company survey. On average, workers are forecast to take home a 1.1% pay hike which means a real wage raise of 0.9%. In real life, of course, the wage hikes are unevenly distributed among industries. The winners will be information technology employees (+1.3% real hikes), the pharmaceutical and chemical branches (+1.1%), while people working in the hospitality industry will have to make do with an average real salary rise of +0.4% and teachers can only expect to receive +0.3%.
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