The rate at which people’s wages are increasing is faster than the rise in the cost of the goods and services they can spend their earnings on, new figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says wages rose by 2.8% in February, while inflation was 2.7%. It was the first time since January 2017 that wage growth had outstripped inflation.
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