HC Deb 15 February 1971 vol 811 cc334-5W
Mr. Bishop

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the hourly rates of working women's earnings, showing the numbers earning each rate and the proportion of the whole they represent.

Mr. Bryan

The result of the New Earnings Survey, 1970, published in recent issues of the Department'sGazette have provided information about the distribu-

ESTIMATED NUMBERS OF FULL-TIME WOMEN WITH HOURLY EARNINGS IN PARTICULAR RANGES: APRIL, 1970
Earnings Number (thousands) Percentage of Total
(shillings per hour) Manual Non-Manual Total Manual Non-Manual Total
Under 5 270 230 500 13.5 7.2 9.7
5 to 6 500 350 850 24.9 11.1 16.5
6 to 7 510 400 910 25.2 12.8 17.7
7 to 8 350 420 770 17.1 13.4 14.8
8 to 9 190 380 570 9.2 12.0 10.9
9 to 10 100 310 410 4.7 10.0 7.9
10 to 12 70 400 470 3.6 12.8 9.2
12 or over 30 660 690 1.7 20.8 13.3
Totals 2,020 3,150 5,170 100.0 100.0 100.0

Notes:
"5 to 6" means 5 shillings or more but less than 6 shillings.
"Full-time" means normally working for 30 or more hours per week (25 hours in the case of teachers and academic staff) excluding main meal-breaks and overtime.
The estimates are subject to sampling error and rounded to the nearest 10,000 after grossing the numbers in the survey sample.
The estimates exclude about 300,000 full-time women because hourly earnings could not be calculated for a small proportion of employees in the survey sample.

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