Earnings Statistics (Hansard, 27 February 2004)

§ Ruth Kelly

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Annabelle Ewing, dated 27 February 2004:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question for a list, for (a) male, (b) female and (c) all workers in (i) Scotland and (ii) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland the (A) weekly median earnings and (B) distribution of earnings for those earning (1) under the point below which 10 per cent. of earners fall and (2) the point above which 10 per cent. of earners exceed. (156220)

I attach a table showing the mean and median earnings in 2003 of employees in local authority areas in Scotland.

Estimates of the boundary points for the highest and lowest 10 per cent. of earners in these areas are published on the National Statistics web site at: http://www. statistics. gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/NES2003_Analyses_By_Region/NES2003__Analyses_By_Region.pdf

Tables E1 5, E16 and E17 give this information for all workers, male workers and female workers respectively, along with other earnings figures for Scottish Local Authorities.

Average earnings are estimated from the 2003 New Earnings Survey (NES) and are provided for full-time employees on adult rates of pay whose pay was unaffected by absence during the pay period. This is the standard definition used for NES tables. The NES does not collect data on the self employed and people who do unpaid work.

The New Earnings Survey publication criteria ensures that all estimates are undisclosive and of reliable quality, and suppresses estimates that do not meet these criteria. A number of estimates have been removed from the table for this reason. The information is based on the 2003 NES, the latest survey for which data are available.

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Gross weekly earnings of full-time employees in Scotland in 2003
£ per week
	Male	Female	All
Area	Mean	Median	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
Falkirk	¹—	¹—	359.6	302.7	412.9	364.7
Fife	455.7	399.5	345.7	304.7	409.7	352.5
Glasgow City	489.1	407.0	374.7	324.0	437.9	364.9
Highland	471.2	377.1	345.7	317.4	419.6	348.4
Inverclyde	¹—	¹—	333.6	304.8	379.7	334.1
Midlothian	429.0	413.2	¹—	¹—	409.1	378.4
North Ayrshire	¹—	¹—	359.8	340.5	409.3	378.4
North Lanarkshire	¹—	¹—	376.6	330.6	444.1	378.4
Perth & Kinross	¹—	¹—	353.3	303.2	405.5	370.4
Renfrewshire	476.2	418.7	381.6	349.8	439.7	391.2
South Ayrshire	479.3	451.0	¹—	¹—	442.5	420.7
South Lanarkshire	479.8	417.8	346.9	309.5	421.8	382.2
Stirling	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	429.8	374.4
West Lothian	459.7	387.0	¹—	¹—	423.0	363.0
¹Estimate removed since it did not meet criteria for publication