# United Kingdom Sector (S.1): Compensation of employees (D.1): Resources: Current price: £million: Not seasonally adjusted ()

United Kingdom Sector (S.1): Compensation of employees (D.1): Resources: Current price: £million: Not seasonally adjusted () was up 4.0% year on year in Q2 2026, compared with 6.1% in Q1 2026.
The level stood at 390,423 £m.
That is the lowest reading since Q1 2021.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −2.6% (Q2 2020) to 9.3% (Q4 2022), averaging 5.1%.

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

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q2 2026 | 390,423 £m | 4.0 |
| Q1 2026 | 409,350 £m | 6.1 |
| Q4 2025 | 381,622 £m | 5.3 |
| Q3 2025 | 375,391 £m | 7.4 |
| Q2 2025 | 375,485 £m | 8.0 |
| Q1 2025 | 385,964 £m | 8.6 |
| Q4 2024 | 362,356 £m | 8.5 |
| Q3 2024 | 349,687 £m | 5.9 |
| Q2 2024 | 347,722 £m | 4.7 |
| Q1 2024 | 355,518 £m | 5.1 |
| Q4 2023 | 334,032 £m | 4.4 |
| Q3 2023 | 330,288 £m | 7.2 |
| Q2 2023 | 332,153 £m | 8.6 |
| Q1 2023 | 338,352 £m | 8.3 |
| Q4 2022 | 320,091 £m | 9.3 |
| Q3 2022 | 308,241 £m | 6.8 |
| Q2 2022 | 305,715 £m | 6.2 |
| Q1 2022 | 312,549 £m | 6.8 |
| Q4 2021 | 292,815 £m | 4.3 |
| Q3 2021 | 288,611 £m | 7.0 |
| Q2 2021 | 287,991 £m | 8.9 |
| Q1 2021 | 292,758 £m | 3.4 |
| Q4 2020 | 280,709 £m | 2.5 |
| Q3 2020 | 269,640 £m | −0.3 |

## API

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

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