Average Wage (Wales)

HC Deb 03 April 1981 vol 2 c175W

Mr. Geraint Howells

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current average wage in Wales; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Peter Morrison

It is estimated that the average gross weekly earnings of adults in full-time employment (whose pay was not affected by absence) in Wales in April 1980 were as follows:

£ per week
	Manual employees	Non-manual employees
Men aged 21 and over	111.3	132.5
Women aged 18 and over	67.7	78.5

Source: New Earnings Survey 1980

Precise estimates for later periods are not yet available, but average earnings for Great Britain as a whole are estimated to have risen by between 10 and 11 per cent. between the period covered by the above estimates and January 1981.