HC Deb 27 July 1976 vol 916 cc160-1W
Mrs. Wise

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest available figures for industrial earnings expressed in the following ways: (a) average, (b) median and (c) modal.

Mr. Harold Walker

Such measures can be estimated from the New Earnings Survey, the latest available information being for April 1975. The following estimates relate to the gross weekly earnings of full-time manual workers employed in all industries and services in Great Britain and whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

Average Median Mode
£ £ £
Men aged 21 and over 55.70 53.20 49.70
Women aged 18 and over 32.10 31.00 30.20

The estimates are given to the nearest 10p and are subject to sampling error.