HC Deb 06 April 1971 vol 815 cc115-6W
Mr. Roderick

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the mean, median, and modal wages in Wales of, respectively, all employees, single men and women, a married man with no children, a married man with one child, a married man with two children, a married man with three children, and a married man with four children.

Mr. Bryan

The following estimates from the New Earnings Survey 1970 relate to adults employed in Wales on a full-time basis in manual occupations, whose pay was not affected by absence during the survey pay-period in April, 1970. Weekly earnings are gross before deductions, exclude the value of income in kind and tips but include the average weekly value of annual and other periodical bonus and commission payments Estimates according to family circumstances are not available.

Manual men aged 21 and over:

£
Mean 26.90
Median 25.70
Mode in range 22 to 24

Manual women aged 18 and over:

£
Mean 12.80
Median 12.50
Mode in range 12 to 13

The estimates are subject to sampling error. Means and medians are rounded to the nearest 10p. Modal values were within the ranges shown and slightly lower than the corresponding median.

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