"Figure 3: Both inflows to and outflows from payroll employment have been below their pre-coronavirus levels in recent months","" "Month-on-month change in paid employment and contributions to this change from inflows (positive) and outflows (negative), seasonally adjusted, UK, January 2017 to July 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. The latest period is based on early data and therefore could be subject to revisions. 2. Testing of this experimental data indicates a tendency for both inflows and outflows to be revised downwards. For this reason, additional caution should be used when interpreting these statistics. The scale of these revisions should not affect the broad analysis presented in the bulletin text." "Unit","Paid employees" "","" "Date","Inflows","Outflows (inverted)","Change in paid employees" "Jan-17","658998","-655698","3300" "Feb-17","683602","-640756","42845" "Mar-17","690110","-641973","48137" "Apr-17","671082","-640479","30603" "May-17","687562","-648574","38988" "Jun-17","677778","-639379","38398" "Jul-17","679003","-654986","24017" "Aug-17","676550","-645117","31434" "Sep-17","679256","-645857","33399" "Oct-17","682376","-651699","30677" "Nov-17","679335","-651034","28301" "Dec-17","662347","-632072","30275" "Jan-18","660900","-648009","12891" "Feb-18","664591","-651452","13140" "Mar-18","639914","-640228","-315" "Apr-18","674457","-614230","60227" "May-18","658489","-647424","11065" "Jun-18","669150","-640156","28994" "Jul-18","673240","-630232","43009" "Aug-18","673892","-641361","32531" "Sep-18","673832","-670103","3729" "Oct-18","668799","-637680","31118" "Nov-18","687488","-635790","51698" "Dec-18","659583","-658500","1084" "Jan-19","668971","-642074","26898" "Feb-19","670354","-634005","36349" "Mar-19","690889","-625573","65316" "Apr-19","675018","-674502","515" "May-19","659468","-655092","4376" "Jun-19","667759","-649652","18107" "Jul-19","649461","-652252","-2791" "Aug-19","658983","-632777","26206" "Sep-19","662491","-639509","22982" "Oct-19","653659","-648092","5568" "Nov-19","657637","-654280","3357" "Dec-19","668126","-649914","18212" "Jan-20","695109","-655583","39526" "Feb-20","681047","-682570","-1523" "Mar-20","675635","-686178","-10543" "Apr-20","424145","-884481","-460336" "May-20","423778","-559088","-135311" "Jun-20","408267","-428497","-20231" "Jul-20","459207","-573618","-114411"