Basic pay, excluding bonuses, rose by 6.6% year-on-year compared with 6.5% in the three months to January
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Pay growth in Britain - which is key to the Bank of England's debate about whether to extend its run of interest rate hikes next month - climbed to 6.6% in the three months to February, official data showed on Tuesday.
Basic pay, excluding bonuses, rose by 6.6% year-on-year compared with 6.5% in the three months to January.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected basic earnings to rise by 6.2%. (Reporting by Sachin Ravikumar, Editing by Kylie MacLellan)
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