Construction and IT shrug off pandemic pressure on wages
Office support, banking and aviation leasing salaries fell in 2020 but construction, property, IT and legal salaries avoided a Covid hit - or even gained ground. A new salary survey by Azon Recruitment found that earnings for property, construction and IT workers went up as much as 5pc in 2020. By contrast, office support salaries fell by as much as 12pc and industries such as banking saw temporary salary cuts of 10pc - with other staff in the most troubled industries sometimes faring much worse. "2020 was a year that accelerated underlying trends," Stephen Hoban, director at Azon Recruit...