{"id":"uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026","canonicalSlug":"uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026","language":"en","title":"UK payroll employment falls by 145,000 over year to August in provisional estimate","summary":"ONS says the early figure was 0.5% lower than a year earlier; survey-based unemployment remained 4.9%.","body":["The early estimate of UK payrolled employees fell by 26,000 between July and August 2026 to 30.2 million, and was down 145,000, or 0.5%, over the year, the Office for National Statistics said. The August estimate is provisional and may be revised.","Separately, the Labour Force Survey put unemployment at 4.9% for May to July and the employment rate for people aged 16 to 64 at 75.1%. These administrative payroll and household-survey measures describe different parts of the labour market."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"UK payroll employment falls by 145,000 over year to August in provisional estimate\n\nONS says the early figure was 0.5% lower than a year earlier; survey-based unemployment remained 4.9%.\n\nThe early estimate of UK payrolled employees fell by 26,000 between July and August 2026 to 30.2 million, and was down 145,000, or 0.5%, over the year, the Office for National Statistics said. The August estimate is provisional and may be revised.\n\nSeparately, the Labour Force Survey put unemployment at 4.9% for May to July and the employment rate for people aged 16 to 64 at 75.1%. These administrative payroll and household-survey measures describe different parts of the labour market.","category":"economy","region":"world","topics":[],"eventDate":"2026-09-15","eventDateBasis":"source-event-or-period","publishedAt":"2026-10-06T00:01:40Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-06T00:01:40Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":null,"sourcePublishedAt":"2026-09-15","translatedAt":"2026-10-05T23:34:33Z","sources":[{"name":"Office for National Statistics","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/september2026","checkedAt":"2026-10-05","publishedAt":"2026-09-15"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/uk-payrolled-employment-slips-august-2026"},"corrections":[],"locations":[]}