Employers squeeze salaries as vacancies rise, says Adzuna

More jobs are being advertised in the UK but at a lower average salary than a year ago, according to the latest UK employment market report by jobs search engine Adzuna.

Reward for failure

“Reward for failure” has been in the headlines all too often recently, as George Entwistle, Diamond, Hughes et al all know.

Shrinking wages are hitting living standards, holding back businesses and damaging growth, says TUC

The UK's overall pay packet was £52 billion smaller last year compared with the start of the financial crisis, according to research published by the TUC, marking the launch of its pay rise campaign.

Banking industry wages rise to 'offset bonus cap'

The banking industry is predicting an increase in fixed pay for employees to partially offset the shortfall in employee incentives, following planned EU regulation to cap bonuses, according to...

Burberry CEO becomes first woman to top FTSE100 pay league

Burberry chief executive, Angela Ahrendts, took home a total pay package of £16.9 million last year, making her the UK's highest paid CEO.

Salary freezes and lower bonuses predicted for FTSE100 executives, in response to 'shareholder spring'

Remuneration committees of FTSE100 companies are starting to show restraint when setting their executive packages this year, with widespread salary freezes and lower bonus payouts.

Employers expect pay budgets to increase, finds CIPD

More than half of employers (53%) expect their pay budgets to increase by the end of the year, according to a survey of senior reward and benefits professionals, published today by the CIPD.

Retail professionals value employer brand over pay

Employees in the retail industry put the value of an employer brand over salary when it comes to choosing a job.

Top engineering graduates leaving sector for higher salaries elsewhere

The most talented engineering graduates are leaving the sector for jobs in other industries with more attractive pay rates, operations director at website graduate-jobs.com, Gerry Wyatt, has said

UK pay rises wiped out by highest inflation in Western Europe, Towers Watson research reveals

UK employers are planning to increase salaries by an average of 3% in 2013 for the second year running, however with inflation expected to run at 3.3% this year – nearly half a percentage point higher...

HRD calls for transparency around senior management pay in the NHS

There should be full transparency around how much senior managers in the NHS are paid, HR director at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Graham White, has said.

Generation Y choose greater flexibility over financial reward, PwC study reveals

Generation Y would choose workplace flexibility, work/life balance and the opportunity for overseas assignments over financial rewards, a study published by PwC has found.