THE number of unemployed Brits has shrunk according to new data from the Office for National Statistics.
But as inflation starts to bite, wages are falling too.
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As many as 184,000 people have been added to company payrolls nationally in the last month, according to tax data from December.
It means that staff numbers are 1.4% above the level in February 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
But the latest data on pay rises suggest they are only at 4.2% which is less than inflation currently at 5.1%.
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