Britain's unemployment rate has hit another six-year low of 5.8% and wages are climbing in real terms, official data showed today.
The UK's jobless rate for September-November compares with 6% for the three months to the end of October, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed in a statement.
Market expectations had been for a drop to 5.9%, according to analysts polled by Bloomberg.
The ONS added that the number of unemployed slid 58,000 to 1.91 million people during the period, compared with the three months to August.
That was also a six-year low last seen in autumn 2008, while a record 30 million people were in employment.
Wages - excluding bonuses - meanwhile advanced 1.8% in the three months to November from a year earlier, the ONS said.
Recent data showed that British inflation had dived in December to a record low of 0.5% on the back of tumbling oil prices.
