Earnings Statistics (Hansard, 15 February 2001)

§ Mr. Alasdair Morgan
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list for Scotland and each local authority area in Scotland(a) the weekly median earnings and (b) the amount of median earnings for those in the first and ninth deciles for (i) all manual, (ii) all non-manual and (iii) all workers. [146247]

§ Miss Melanie Johnson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Alasdair Morgan, dated 15 February 2001: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question on weekly earnings for workers in Scotland and the local authorities in Scotland (146247). The New Earnings Survey (NES) can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. However, the NES has incomplete coverage of those on low pay because the sample is limited to people earning above the income tax threshold. 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. I have provided the available data for Scotland and the unitary authorities in Scotland in the attached tables, only where the samples are large enough and have an acceptable level of accuracy. These are based on the 2000 NES, the latest survey for which data are available.

Gross weekly earnings for Scotland

£

Median¹ Lowest decile² Highest decile³

Full-time

Non-manual 363.2 202.8 673.3

Manual 289.3 171.5 479.0

All Employees 330.0 190.0 608.3

Part-time

Non-manual 123.9 51.9 270.1

Manual 91.0 39.2 159.7

All Employees 108.8 45.2 233.4

All

Non-manual 301.6 112.5 619.5

Manual 250.0 77.6 447.7

All Employees 280.8 99.1 564.9

¹ 50^th percentile

² 10^th percentile

³ 90^th percentile

297W

Gross weekly earnings for unitary authorities in Scotland

£

Median¹ Lowest decile² Highest decile³

Renfrewshire 379.6 180.7 648.7

South Ayrshire 369.7 206.3 681.5

South Lanarkshire 367.7 191.9 706.4

West Lothian 393.6 192.2 780.3

Manual Aberdeen City 325.0 180.0 603.7

Aberdeenshire 277.0 150.0 464.8

Scottish Borders, The 246.9 173.3 358.5

Dumfries and Galloway 275.0 155.7 397.2

Dundee City 271.7 176.4 439.0

East Ayrshire 294.3 168.3 443.2

Edinburgh, City of 275.5 159.4 477.5

Falkirk 336.0 162.2 574.1

Fife 287.0 171.7 449.1

Glasgow City 292.3 176.5 464.3

Highland 287.9 192.6 512.1

Inverclyde 308.3 185.1 445.8

North Ayrshire 295.3 161.5 451.1

North Lanarkshire 294.6 180.9 481.4

Perth and Kinross 274.3 180.5 466.8

Renfrewshire 327.7 173.5 528.5

South Ayrshire 300.4 188.6 499.9

South Lanarkshire 308.3 188.7 522.5

Stirling 285.8 164.5 392.5

West Lothian 300.0 177.1 510.8

All Employees Aberdeen City 376.1 203.8 762.2

Aberdeenshire 308.3 168.7 630.8

Angus 302.2 182.8 536.3

Argyll and Bute 345.8 188.9 602.0

Scottish Borders, The 276.6 176.3 528.5

Dumfries and Galloway 291.4 172.4 510.4

Dundee City 322.3 195.3 565.7

East Ayrshire 328.1 182.3 569.6

East Lothian 345.3 198.9 561.6

Edinburgh, City of 345.5 198.7 679.9

Falkirk 325.0 189.1 621.7

Fife 311.9 181.6 537.2

Glasgow City 339.3 194.9 646.1

Highland 304.2 188.3 564.1

Inverclyde 323.3 194.8 592.5

Midlothian 350.7 201.5 562.1

North Ayrshire 321.5 178.3 540.2

North Lanarkshire 323.0 202.9 575.8

Perth and Kinross 294.3 182.3 491.4

Renfrewshire 355.9 179.6 626.4

South Ayrshire 344.7 203.7 640.8

South Lanarkshire 334.4 190.8 638.8

Stirling 297.1 176.8 497.2

West Lothian 332.7 189.3 614.7

Part-time

Non-manual Edinburgh, City of 124.0 43.7 269.3

Glasgow City 116.6 56.0 237.2

Manual Glasgow City 94.1 42.6 156.5

All Employees Edinburgh, City of 106.9 38.4 229.3

Glasgow City 106.3 48.6 217.4

South Lanarkshire 112.2 50.2 194.2

All

Non-manual Aberdeen City 345.5 118.9 767.8

Angus 270.7 113.1 535.7

Dundee City 294.0 112.0 577.6

Edinburgh, City of 327.9 138.7 687.0

Falkirk 268.7 113.8 621.7

Fife 286.6 105.4 567.3

Glasgow City 307.1 115.3 652.4

Highland 264.9 117.4 550.9

North Ayrshire 306.8 91.4 541.6

North Lanarkshire 313.2 129.7 583.4

Perth and Kinross 260.3 97.3 483.3

298W 299W

Gross weekly earnings for unitary authorities in Scotland

£

Median¹ Lowest decile² Highest decile³

Renfrewshire 327.2 137.2 629.6

South Ayrshire 322.6 90.1 646.9

South Lanarkshire 287.9 113.9 639.7

West Lothian 333.5 140.4 658.7

Manual Aberdeen City 249.0 77.5 529.1

Aberdeenshire 210.7 55.4 390.9

Dumfries and Galloway 251.1 82.7 387.0

Dundee City 244.1 89.6 424.4

Edinburgh, City of 230.0 73.0 453.3

Fife 250.5 92.3 432.0

Glasgow City 249.6 79.4 429.1

Highland 260.8 64.3 470.2

North Lanarkshire 256.7 73.7 448.5

Renfrewshire 287.1 92.0 503.6

South Lanarkshire 261.8 76.9 491.5

West Lothian 287.2 115.2 471.7

All Employees Aberdeen City 317.5 104.9 695.2

Aberdeenshire 249.2 66.8 558.2

Angus 248.6 103.6 499.0

Argyll and Bute 261.0 74.0 546.1

Scottish Borders, The 236.6 85.1 490.4

Dumfries and Galloway 257.3 88.9 475.9

Dundee City 275.0 106.1 521.1

East Ayrshire 276.4 87.6 541.0

Edinburgh, City of 296.4 107.6 634.9

Falkirk 283.5 95.1 574.5

Fife 266.0 99.2 508.7

Glasgow City 285.3 100.3 588.8

Highland 262.7 88.4 517.1

Inverclyde 265.0 89.9 490.2

Midlothian 294.5 101.9 548.0

North Ayrshire 278.6 84.9 490.4

North Lanarkshire 286.3 105.0 551.7

Perth and Kinross 253.8 85.8 475.9

Renfrewshire 312.2 121.0 602.0

South Ayrshire 284.7 74.1 564.8

South Lanarkshire 269.0 102.8 591.1

West Lothian 297.2 132.6 578.3

¹ 50^th percentile

² 10^th percentile

³ 90^th percentile

§ Mr. Grieve
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average weekly earnings are(a) including and (b) excluding overtime, for part-time workers in (i) Scotland, (ii) each of the local t nitary local authority areas in Scotland and (iii) the UK, broken down by (A) men and (B) women in (1) manual employment, (2) non-manual employment and (3) all employment [145664]

§ Mr. Andrew Smith
This information falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Dominic Grieve, dated 15 February 2001: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question on weekly earnings for workers in Scotland, the unitary authorities in Scotland and the United Kir gdom (145664). The New Earnings Survey (NES) can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. However, the NES has incomplete coverage of those on low pay, because the sample is largely limited to people earning above the income tax threshold. This under-coverage will particularly affect results for part-time workers. The release of NES data is restricted to figures that are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees and have an acceptable 300W level of accuracy. The data for the United Kingdom is not yet available. I have provided the available data for Scotland, the unitary authorities in Scotland and Great Britain in the attached tables, where the sample sizes are large enough and have an acceptable level of accuracy. These are based on the 2000 NES, the latest survey for which data are available.

Average weekly gross earnings including overtime for part-time employees for Great Britain

£

Male:

Non-manual 163.6

Manual 114.3

All 142.3

Female:

Non-manual 144.5

Manual 94.2

All 129.7

All employees:

Non-manual 147.2

Manual 98.8

All 131.8

301W

Average weekly gross earnings including overtime for part-time employees for Scotland

£

Male:

Manual 106.5

All 123.7

Female:

Non-manual 146.4

Manual 94.8

All 129.0

All employees:

Non-manual 145.6

Manual 97.1

All 128.2

Average weekly gross earnings including overtime for part-time employees for unitary authorities in Scotland

£

Edinburgh, City of Glasgow City South Lanarkshire

Female:

Non-manual 142.3 136.4 —

All 126.8 124.6 118.6

All employees:

Non-manual 143.4 134.9 —

Manual — 98.7 —

All 128.5 122.7 118.3

Average weekly gross earnings excluding overtime for Great Britain

£

Male:

Non-manual 155.8

Manual 104.8

All 133.7

Female:

Non-manual 137.7

Manual 89.2

All 123.5

All employees:

Non-manual 140.2

Manual 92.7

All 125.2

Average weekly gross earnings excluding overtime for Scotland

£

Male:

Manual 97.1

All 113.9

Female:

Non-manual 140.4

Manual 88.9

All 123.0

All employees:

Non-manual 139.1

Manual 90.5

All 121.7

302W

Average weekly gross earnings excluding overtime for unitary authorities in Scotland

£

Edinburgh, City of Glasgow City South Lanarkshire

Female:

Non-manual 136.5 132.0 —

Manual — 92.9 —

All 121.4 120.2 113.1

All employees:

Non-manual 136.7 130.2 —

Manual 91.8 92.3 —

All 122.4 117.4 111.4

Gross weekly earnings for Scotland
£
	Median¹	Lowest decile²	Highest decile³
Full-time
Non-manual	363.2	202.8	673.3
Manual	289.3	171.5	479.0
All Employees	330.0	190.0	608.3
Part-time
Non-manual	123.9	51.9	270.1
Manual	91.0	39.2	159.7
All Employees	108.8	45.2	233.4
All
Non-manual	301.6	112.5	619.5
Manual	250.0	77.6	447.7
All Employees	280.8	99.1	564.9
¹ 50^th percentile
² 10^th percentile
³ 90^th percentile

Gross weekly earnings for unitary authorities in Scotland
£
		Median¹	Lowest decile²	Highest decile³
	Renfrewshire	379.6	180.7	648.7
	South Ayrshire	369.7	206.3	681.5
	South Lanarkshire	367.7	191.9	706.4
	West Lothian	393.6	192.2	780.3
Manual	Aberdeen City	325.0	180.0	603.7
	Aberdeenshire	277.0	150.0	464.8
	Scottish Borders, The	246.9	173.3	358.5
	Dumfries and Galloway	275.0	155.7	397.2
	Dundee City	271.7	176.4	439.0
	East Ayrshire	294.3	168.3	443.2
	Edinburgh, City of	275.5	159.4	477.5
	Falkirk	336.0	162.2	574.1
	Fife	287.0	171.7	449.1
	Glasgow City	292.3	176.5	464.3
	Highland	287.9	192.6	512.1
	Inverclyde	308.3	185.1	445.8
	North Ayrshire	295.3	161.5	451.1
	North Lanarkshire	294.6	180.9	481.4
	Perth and Kinross	274.3	180.5	466.8
	Renfrewshire	327.7	173.5	528.5
	South Ayrshire	300.4	188.6	499.9
	South Lanarkshire	308.3	188.7	522.5
	Stirling	285.8	164.5	392.5
	West Lothian	300.0	177.1	510.8
All Employees	Aberdeen City	376.1	203.8	762.2
	Aberdeenshire	308.3	168.7	630.8
	Angus	302.2	182.8	536.3
	Argyll and Bute	345.8	188.9	602.0
	Scottish Borders, The	276.6	176.3	528.5
	Dumfries and Galloway	291.4	172.4	510.4
	Dundee City	322.3	195.3	565.7
	East Ayrshire	328.1	182.3	569.6
	East Lothian	345.3	198.9	561.6
	Edinburgh, City of	345.5	198.7	679.9
	Falkirk	325.0	189.1	621.7
	Fife	311.9	181.6	537.2
	Glasgow City	339.3	194.9	646.1
	Highland	304.2	188.3	564.1
	Inverclyde	323.3	194.8	592.5
	Midlothian	350.7	201.5	562.1
	North Ayrshire	321.5	178.3	540.2
	North Lanarkshire	323.0	202.9	575.8
	Perth and Kinross	294.3	182.3	491.4
	Renfrewshire	355.9	179.6	626.4
	South Ayrshire	344.7	203.7	640.8
	South Lanarkshire	334.4	190.8	638.8
	Stirling	297.1	176.8	497.2
	West Lothian	332.7	189.3	614.7
Part-time
Non-manual	Edinburgh, City of	124.0	43.7	269.3
	Glasgow City	116.6	56.0	237.2
Manual	Glasgow City	94.1	42.6	156.5
All Employees	Edinburgh, City of	106.9	38.4	229.3
	Glasgow City	106.3	48.6	217.4
	South Lanarkshire	112.2	50.2	194.2
All
Non-manual	Aberdeen City	345.5	118.9	767.8
	Angus	270.7	113.1	535.7
	Dundee City	294.0	112.0	577.6
	Edinburgh, City of	327.9	138.7	687.0
	Falkirk	268.7	113.8	621.7
	Fife	286.6	105.4	567.3
	Glasgow City	307.1	115.3	652.4
	Highland	264.9	117.4	550.9
	North Ayrshire	306.8	91.4	541.6
	North Lanarkshire	313.2	129.7	583.4
	Perth and Kinross	260.3	97.3	483.3

Average weekly gross earnings including overtime for part-time employees for Great Britain
	£
Male:
Non-manual	163.6
Manual	114.3
All	142.3
Female:
Non-manual	144.5
Manual	94.2
All	129.7
All employees:
Non-manual	147.2
Manual	98.8
All	131.8

Average weekly gross earnings excluding overtime for Great Britain
	£
Male:
Non-manual	155.8
Manual	104.8
All	133.7
Female:
Non-manual	137.7
Manual	89.2
All	123.5
All employees:
Non-manual	140.2
Manual	92.7
All	125.2