The number of people who were economically inactive - those who were not looking for work - fell by 91, compared to the previous quarter, but rose by 50, compared with last year. The number of vacancies hit another record high of 1. However, these numbers contain a number of Covid-related distortions. The wage numbers are flattered by comparisons to last year when furlough schemes depressed wages and hours worked.
That will offset wage rises for those lucky enough to get them. But it will see lower living standards for the many who won't: 5. Higher wages have understandably been welcomed by the government, but there is less evidence of the higher skills that it is hoped will accompany them.
And the high number of vacancies suggest that there is now a mismatch between the jobs people want and the ones that are available. Like other sectors, the construction industry is struggling to fill vacancies at the moment. Katy Jordan runs Storey homes, a small house-building company in Bedfordshire. She's having trouble recruiting for certain roles such as site managers, and is having to pay staff more to keep them.
What we're finding is that it's difficult to employ people on a permanent basis because it's easy for our site staff to have their heads turned by more money elsewhere. Katy is having to raise wages to attract people to the company, and keep the people she already has, but she says that's not addressing a shortage of skills and experience in the industry. We want people to be attracted to the construction industry.
But we're not attracting people with the right skills at the moment," she says. The record level of vacancies and hiring rates in September "bode well for the million workers coming off furlough in October", the Resolution Foundation think tank said, and should "help limit any increases in unemployment".
The furlough scheme, which saw the government pay towards wages during the Covid pandemic, ended at the end of September with nearly one million workers expected to have been on it.
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