Earnings Statistics (Hansard, 9 December 2002)

§ Mr. Moore

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what percentage of full-time workers in(a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain earn less than (i) £302.12 per week, (ii) £277.24 per week, (iii) £203.85 per week and (iv) £155.39 per week in gross pay (A) including and (B) excluding overtime, in the categories (1) male manual, (2) male non-manual, (3) all male workers, (4) female manual, (5) female non-manual, (6) all female workers, (7) all manual, (8) non-manual and (9) all workers; [86276]

(2) what the average weekly earnings were in gross pay (a) including and (b) excluding overtime for full-time workers in (i) Scotland, (ii) each of the unitary

New Earnings Survey, April 2002—Full time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay period was unaffected by absence— Gross Average Weekly Earnings, Excluding Overtime
		Percentage of employees with gross weekly earnings
		<302.12	<277.24	<203.85	<155.39
Non-Manual Male Employees	Great Britain	18.6	14.3	3.8	0.5
Manual Male Employees		49.2	38.1	10.2	1.0
All Male Employees		30.8	23.8	6.4	0.7
Non-Manual Female Employees		39.6	32.0	9.7	1.3
Manual Female Employees		83.4	76.2	41.2	8.2
All Female Employees		45.8	38.2	14.1	2.3
All Non-Manual Employees		28.3	22.5	6.6	0.9
All Manual Employees		55.2	44.8	15.6	2.2
All Employees		36.4	29.2	9.3	1.3
Non-Manual Male Employees	Scotland	21.4	17.2	4.7	0.4
Manual Male Employees		54.9	43.7	11.5	1.4
All Male Employees		35.6	28.4	7.6	0.8
Non-Manual Female Employees		43.9	35.2	9.7	1.2
Manual Female Employees		87.0	80.2	45.0	8.2
All Female Employees		50.2	41.8	14.9	2.2
All Non-Manual Employees		32.9	26.3	7.3	0.8
All Manual Employees		61.2	50.8	18.0	2.8
All Employees		41.6	33.9	10.6	1.4
Non-Manual Male Employees	Aberdeen City	13.9	¹—	¹—	¹—
	Edinburgh, City of	18.9	15.6	4.7	¹—
	Fife	18.3	¹—	¹—	¹—
	Glasgow City	26.4	21.8	6.7	¹—
	North Lanarkshire	24.8	19.3	¹—	¹—
Manual Male Employees	Aberdeen City	52.1	41.4	¹—	¹—
	Aberdeenshire	62.5	53.1	¹—	¹—
	Scottish Borders, The	73.9	¹—	¹—	¹—
	Dumfries and Galloway	59.4	55.1	¹—	¹—
	Dundee City	48.6	¹—	¹—	¹—
	Edinburgh, City of	57.6	46.8	14.0	¹—
	Falkirk	50.0	43.1	¹—	¹—
	Fife	56.1	43.3	¹—	¹—
	Glasgow City	52.1	42.2	10.2	¹—
	Highland	57.0	43.0	¹—	¹—
	North Ayrshire	63.0	55.6	¹—	¹—
	North Lanarkshire	57.1	44.6	¹—	¹—
	Perth and Kinross	56.3	¹—	¹—	¹—
	Renfrewshire	50.6	43.8	¹—	¹—
	South Ayrshire	52.6	¹—	¹—	¹—
	South Lanarkshire	50.0	40.0	¹—	¹—
	West Lothian	40.6	¹—	¹—	¹—

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local authority areas in Scotland and (iii) Great Britain for (A) all manual, (B) all non-manual and (C) all workers. [86277]

§ Ruth Kelly

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from L. Cook to Mr. Michael Moore, dated 9 December 2002: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent questions on weekly earnings for workers in Great Britain, Scotland and the unitary authorities in Scotland. (86276, 86277) I attach tables showing average weekly earnings, both including and excluding overtime, (Table 1) and the proportion of people earning below the different thresholds you listed, both including overtime (Table 2) and excluding overtime (Table 3). The New Earnings Survey (NES) can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. The release of NES data is restricted to figures that are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees, and have an acceptable level of accuracy and I have provided the available data for Scotland, the unitary authorities in Scotland and Great Britain only for those areas where the samples are large enough. These are based on the 2002 NES, the latest survey for which data are available.

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New Earnings Survey, April 2002—Full time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay period was unaffected by absence— Gross Average Weekly Earnings, Excluding Overtime
		Percentage of employees with gross weekly earnings
		<302.12	<277.24	<203.85	<155.39
All Male Employees	Aberdeen City	26.9	20.8	7.5	¹—
	Aberdeenshire	40.7	33.9	¹—	¹—
	Dumfries and Galloway	41.1	37.2	¹—	¹—
	Dundee City	32.5	27.4	¹—	¹—
	Edinburgh, City of	29.9	24.4	7.4	¹—
	Falkirk	38.2	31.2	¹—	¹—
	Fife	37.2	28.6	¹—	¹—
	Glasgow City	35.9	29.3	8.0	¹—
	Highland	38.9	30.1	¹—	¹—
	Moray	44.7	39.5	¹—	¹—
	North Ayrshire	39.4	32.3	¹—	¹—
	North Lanarkshire	39.8	31.0	¹—	¹—
	Perth and Kinross	42.3	31.7	¹—	¹—
	Renfrewshire	32.4	25.6	¹—	¹—
	South Ayrshire	34.9	28.6	¹—	¹—
	South Lanarkshire	32.0	24.3	¹—	¹—
	West Lothian	32.1	23.8	¹—	¹—
Non-Manual Female Employees	Aberdeen City	34.9	25.5	¹—	¹—
	Dundee City	43.2	37.1	¹—	¹—
	Edinburgh, City of	37.7	28.1	6.3	¹—
	Fife	48.4	40.6	¹—	¹—
	Glasgow City	45.2	33.2	8.7	¹—
	Highland	49.0	41.5	¹—	¹—
	North Lanarkshire	44.2	38.1	¹—	¹—
	Perth and Kinross	52.6	42.3	¹—	¹—
	Renfrewshire	41.0	32.1	¹—	¹—
	South Lanarkshire	44.7	36.0	¹—	¹—
	West Lothian	42.9	¹—	¹—	¹—
Manual Female Employees	Edinburgh, City of	75.0	65.4	¹—	¹—
	Fife	93.6	89.4	¹—	¹—
	Glasgow City	78.9	73.7	48.7	¹—
	South Lanarkshire	84.2	78.9	¹—	¹—
All Female Employees	Aberdeen City	41.4	32.7	13.7	¹—
	Aberdeenshire	62.5	56.3	¹—	¹—
	Dundee City	49.7	42.6	¹—	¹—
	Edinburgh, City of	40.7	31.1	8.3	¹—
	Fife	57.3	50.2	15.1	¹—
	Glasgow City	48.7	37.3	12.8	¹—
	Highland	53.6	47.0	18.7	¹—
	North Lanarkshire	50.7	45.4	¹—	¹—
	Perth and Kinross	57.8	48.9	¹—	¹—
	Renfrewshire	46.8	39.2	¹—	¹—
	South Ayrshire	44.8	40.2	¹—	¹—
	South Lanarkshire	52.7	44.7	¹—	¹—
	West Dunbartonshire	62.0	¹—	¹—	¹—
	West Lothian	47.7	35.1	¹—	¹—
All Non-Manual Employees	Aberdeen City	23.6	17.3	¹—	¹—
	Aberdeenshire	29.9	25.2	¹—	¹—
	Angus	41.1	35.8	¹—	¹—
	Dumfries and Galloway	34.7	30.6	¹—	¹—
	Dundee City	33.3	29.0	¹—	¹—
	Edinburgh, City of	27.9	21.6	5.5	¹—
	Falkirk	41.7	32.1	¹—	¹—
	Fife	33.9	27.7	¹—	¹—
	Glasgow City	36.2	27.8	7.8	¹—
	Highland	36.7	30.9	¹—	¹—
	Moray	42.5	41.1	¹—	¹—
	North Ayrshire	31.3	¹—	¹—	¹—
	North Lanarkshire	33.9	28.2	¹—	¹—
	Perth and Kinross	41.6	32.8	¹—	¹—
	Renfrewshire	30.7	22.7	¹—	¹—
	South Ayrshire	31.1	27.0	¹—	¹—
	South Lanarkshire	31.2	23.9	¹—	¹—
	West Lothian	32.6	25.8	¹—	¹—

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New Earnings Survey, April 2002—Full time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay period was unaffected by absence— Gross Average Weekly Earnings, Excluding Overtime
		Percentage of employees with gross weekly earnings
		<302.12	<277.24	<203.85	<155.39
All Manual Employees	Aberdeen City	59.5	50.0	23.2	¹—
	Aberdeenshire	69.8	61.1	¹—	¹—
	Angus	71.2	57.6	¹—	¹—
	Scottish Borders, The	82.6	71.0	¹—	¹—
	Dumfries and Galloway	65.9	61.2	¹—	¹—
	Dundee City	57.7	47.4	¹—	¹—
	East Ayrshire	63.5	¹—	¹—	¹—
	East Lothian	67.4	¹—	¹—	¹—
	Edinburgh, City of	60.6	50.0	16.9	¹—
	Falkirk	57.3	50.6	¹—	¹—
	Fife	63.9	52.9	15.4	¹—
	Glasgow City	56.9	47.8	17.0	¹—
	Highland	61.7	49.6	¹—	¹—
	Inverclyde	70.6	¹—	¹—	¹—
	Moray	66.1	59.3	¹—	¹—
	North Ayrshire	68.1	59.4	¹—	¹—
	North Lanarkshire	62.2	51.2	¹—	¹—
	Perth and Kinross	61.8	50.0	¹—	¹—
	Renfrewshire	56.6	51.3	¹—	¹—
	South Ayrshire	56.9	47.7	¹—	¹—
	South Lanarkshire	58.2	49.4	¹—	¹—
	West Lothian	45.2	31.0	¹—	¹—
All Employees	Aberdeen City	32.5	25.4	9.9	¹—
	Aberdeenshire	48.4	41.8	15.0	¹—
	Angus	52.6	44.2	¹—	¹—
	Argyll and Bute	42.0	38.5	¹—	¹—
	Scottish Borders, The	58.5	52.3	19.9	¹—
	Dumfries and Galloway	47.6	43.2	14.6	¹—
	Dundee City	40.1	34.1	10.2	¹—
	East Lothian	41.7	32.3	¹—	¹—
	Edinburgh, City of	34.4	27.2	7.8	¹—
	Falkirk	47.1	38.5	12.1	¹—
	Fife	45.2	37.2	9.8	¹—
	Glasgow City	41.4	32.8	10.1	¹—
	Highland	45.2	37.2	13.0	¹—
	Inverclyde	54.5	40.7	¹—	¹—
	Midlothian	46.2	38.5	¹—	¹—
	Moray	53.0	49.2	¹—	¹—
	North Ayrshire	46.7	38.2	¹—	¹—
	North Lanarkshire	43.7	36.1	8.0	¹—
	Perth and Kinross	48.8	39.0	¹—	¹—
	Renfrewshire	38.5	31.3	11.7	¹—
	South Ayrshire	39.0	33.3	¹—	¹—
	South Lanarkshire	40.3	32.4	8.7	¹—
	West Lothian	37.8	28.0	¹—	¹—
¹ Denotes the data has been suppressed in line with NES publication criteria.

Note:

Where an authority does not appear the data has been suppressed.