Partner Article

Half of North East wages cut, survey says

A BBC report yesterday warned that the average British worker earned £20,149 at the start of 2011 - a real terms fall of 5% from what they were earning in the middle of the recession.

We asked readers about their experiences and found that 54.5% of people have had their salary frozen for the last two years, meaning a real-time fall when inflation is considered.

27.3% of respondents said they had taken an actual pay-cut in the last two years, while only 18.2% had a pay-rise.

The average employee takes home £1,088 a year less than two years ago when the sum is adjusted for inflation, research commissioned by BBC Panorama suggests.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .