Wages 1999-2008 United Kingdom

These changes in UK wages, between 1999 and 2008, have been looked at to compare against the changes in Food prices shown at this article: www.britzinoz.com/…/food-price-comparison-uk-aus

2008
Median gross weekly earnings for all employee jobs was £388

• www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/ashe1108.pdf

1999
Median salary for all employees was £14,888 or £286.30 pw

• www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/ASHE_1999/1999_all_employees.pdf
• www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/ASHE_1999/tab1_7a.xls

Therefore UK wages went up by 35.6% during this period