Staff are £11,000 worse off per yr because of 15 years of wage stagnation, based on the Decision Basis.

In new figures shared with BBC Panorama, the assume tank calculated that, had wages continued to develop on the tempo seen earlier than the 2008 monetary crash, the common employee would make £11,000 extra per yr than they do now, taking rising costs under consideration.

Torsten Bell, chief government of the Decision Basis, instructed the BBC the wage stagnation of the previous 15 years is “virtually fully unprecedented”.

He mentioned: “No one who’s alive and dealing within the British economic system right now has ever seen something like this.

“That is undoubtedly not what regular appears like. That is what failure appears like.”

The assume tank additionally discovered typical UK family incomes have fallen additional behind these in Germany: in 2008, the hole was greater than £500 a yr, now it’s £4,000.

A Treasury spokesman instructed the broadcaster the Authorities was rising incentives for funding and signalled low unemployment – in addition to its plan to extend progress – as indicators the nation was heading in the right direction.