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The claim

"For the first time in decades, wages across the board are rising 4.1% up on where they were before the pandemic"

Original publisher’s rating

This figures comes from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in February. The ONS think during the pandemic there has been a fall in the number and proportion of lower-paid jobs, which means average earnings have gone up.

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    Original review: BBC Reality Check. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms.

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