Employees are £11,000 worse off per 12 months attributable to 15 years of wage stagnation, based on the Decision Basis.

In new figures shared with BBC Panorama, the suppose tank calculated that, had wages continued to develop on the tempo seen earlier than the 2008 monetary crash, the typical employee would make £11,000 extra per 12 months 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 financial system right this moment has ever seen something like this.

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

The suppose tank additionally discovered typical UK family incomes have fallen additional behind these in Germany: in 2008, the hole was greater than £500 a 12 months, 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.