Best paid jobs for pay rises include bar staff and waiters – how to ask your boss for a rise

In fact, wages rose 4.4 per cent on average in the hospitality and catering sectors, with the average worker now earning £22.574 per year.

But they were still beaten by teachers, who've seen a whopping 15.9 per cent salary increase in the 12 months to the end of October, leading to an average salary of £30,889.

And there are tens of thousands of opportunities for others to benefit from the wage increases too – Adzuna says there are currently 70,065 vacancies in teaching and 66,931 vacancies in the hospitality sector.

Meanwhile, pay has also risen above the rate of inflation in design, admin and the legal profession recently.

The three industries have all seen salary increases of eight, seven and 6.6 per cent, respectively.

On the other side of the spectrum, the cleaning industry has suffered in the past year as cleaners have seen their average earnings drop by 7.2 per cent.

Andrew Hunter, from Adzuna, commented: "It's pleasing to see tireless bar staff and waitresses receiving a jolly bump to their wages, just in time for the busy festive period.

"Hopefully this will be some consolation for all the terrible festive jokes and loud behaviour acted out at Christmas work dos up and down the country over the next few weeks.

How to ask for a pay rise

"Looking more generally, it's hopeful that real wages are on the way back up after months of decline.

"Whilst overall salaries are up 3.9% year-on-year, we had expected to see more robust growth, but have our fingers crossed that this will be a springboard to build upon as we move into 2019."

But wages are still rising at their fastest pace for a decade, it was revealed earlier this week.

And thousands of Amazon workers got a pay rise of up to 28 per cent last month – including its seasonal Christmas workers.

But recent figures revealed that workers in their 30s are earning £2,100 less a year than same age group in 2008.

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