The UK employment hit a record high in December and the workers' pay grew at the fastest pace in a decade amid steady unemployment, despite the Brexit chaos.
The employment level grew by 141,000 sequentially to a record high 32.54 million in the three months to November, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Tuesday. Economists were looking for an increase of 87,000.
The rate of employment rose to 75.8 percent, which was the highest since comparable records began in 1971.
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