# United Kingdom (S.1): Compensation of employees (D.1) Uses: Current price: £m ()

United Kingdom (S.1): Compensation of employees (D.1) Uses: Current price: £m () was up 4.0% year on year in Q2 2026, compared with 6.1% in Q1 2026.
The level stood at 390,552 £m.
That is the lowest reading since Q1 2021.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −2.6% (Q2 2020) to 9.4% (Q4 2022), averaging 5.1%.

- Source agency: UK Office for National Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `UK.WAGES.Q.NSA.ITEM-HAEA`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: £m
- Coverage: 1955-01-01 to 2026-04-01 (286 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-kingdom/s-1-compensation-of-employees-d-1-uses-current-price-m

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q2 2026 | 390,552 £m | 4.0 |
| Q1 2026 | 409,562 £m | 6.1 |
| Q4 2025 | 381,793 £m | 5.3 |
| Q3 2025 | 375,546 £m | 7.3 |
| Q2 2025 | 375,601 £m | 8.0 |
| Q1 2025 | 386,115 £m | 8.6 |
| Q4 2024 | 362,489 £m | 8.5 |
| Q3 2024 | 349,841 £m | 5.9 |
| Q2 2024 | 347,921 £m | 4.7 |
| Q1 2024 | 355,642 £m | 5.1 |
| Q4 2023 | 334,215 £m | 4.3 |
| Q3 2023 | 330,504 £m | 7.2 |
| Q2 2023 | 332,245 £m | 8.6 |
| Q1 2023 | 338,514 £m | 8.3 |
| Q4 2022 | 320,389 £m | 9.4 |
| Q3 2022 | 308,436 £m | 6.9 |
| Q2 2022 | 305,898 £m | 6.2 |
| Q1 2022 | 312,642 £m | 6.8 |
| Q4 2021 | 292,931 £m | 4.3 |
| Q3 2021 | 288,654 £m | 7.0 |
| Q2 2021 | 288,039 £m | 8.9 |
| Q1 2021 | 292,810 £m | 3.4 |
| Q4 2020 | 280,833 £m | 2.5 |
| Q3 2020 | 269,676 £m | −0.4 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.WAGES.Q.NSA.ITEM-HAEA"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.WAGES.Q.NSA.ITEM-HAEA",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```