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Income
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average earnings were for each income decile of (a) men and (b) women aged between 22 and 29 years in each region in the latest five years for which figures are available. [196639]
Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Jill Matheson, dated 31 March 2008:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the average earnings
were for each income decile of (a) men and (b) women aged between 22 and 29 years in each region in the latest five years for which figures are available. I am replying in her absence. (196639)
Average levels of earnings are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), and are provided for all employees on adult rates of pay whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.
I attach a table showing the mean, deciles and quartiles for gross weekly earnings for (a) men and (b) women aged between 22 and 29 years, for those working full time in each government office region, for the years 2003 - 2007.
The ASHE, carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. It is a sample of all employees who are members of pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) schemes.
| Weekly pay—gross (£)—for male full-time employee jobs by age 22 to 29( a) : United Kingdom | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | |||||||||||||
| Percentiles | |||||||||||||
| Description | Number of jobs (thousand) | Median | Mean | 10 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 40 | 60 | 70 | 75 | 80 | 90 |
| 2004( b) | |||||||||||||
| Percentiles | |||||||||||||
| Description | Number of jobs (thousand) | Median | Mean | 10 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 40 | 60 | 70 | 75 | 80 | 90 |
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