§ Mr. Spearingasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state the median figure of earned incomes for the latest convenient date; and if he will make arrangements to publish this median figure together with future announcements of average earnings.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe latest available figures are based on the new earnings survey and relate to April 1972. They are estimates of median gross weekly earnings of men aged 21 and over and women aged 18 and over in full-time employment in Great Britain whose pay was not affected by absence during the survey period.
Median gross weekly earnings April 1972 Full-time, men …… … £33.4 Full-time, women … … £18.6 Other earnings inquiries carried out by my Department do not provide estimates of median earnings. The above figures were published together with information on average (mean) earnings in the November 1972 issue of the Department of Employment Gazette.