Pay day blues

It being the end of the month no doubt many of you will have salaries going out, so it seems timely to ask what kind of pay rises you’ve been awarding this year? Research from business performance consultancy Avming UK shows that around 8% of UK businesses are providing inflation-matching pay rises – which actually seems rather a high proportion given all I’m hearing on the grapevine. Any idea what the sector’s average pay increase is at the moment?