Feel like you are having to tighten the purse strings more and more each year? It’s not your imagination. As real pay fell again in the three months to May, cash-strapped households continue to feel the squeeze.
It followed a 0.6% drop in real pay in the three months to April, and a 0.4% fall in the previous three months, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. That’s despite the biggest drop in the unemployment rate since May to July 1975.
With inflation causing prices to rise faster than wages, we want you to share your experiences of how the UK pay squeeze has affected you. How have you coped with increasing financial pressures and shrinking household budgets? Has your work become more insecure? What changes have you made to your life to stay afloat?
You can submit your contributions anonymously using the online form below, from Tuesday 1 August until midnight on 15 August. We will publish an edited selection on the Guardian Careers site, and contributions may also be shared across our social media channels.
To get in touch fill in the encrypted form below – you won’t need to give us your name or the name of where you work – and we’ll publish a selection of responses. Please give us as much information about your experience as you can, but only include identifying details if you are happy to have them published.
