Highlights
AWE: Whole Economy Year on Year Three Month Average Growth (%): Seasonally Adjusted Total Pay Excluding Arrears
Year on year 3 months average
3.8 %
2019 AUG
- Release date:
- 15 October 2019
- Next release:
- 12 November 2019
Employee earnings in the UK: 2018
What's in the bulletin?
- Median full-time weekly earnings increased 3.5% compared with 2017, to £569.
- Earnings growth was highest in 2018 in the lowest-paid occupations.
- Increased polarisation of pay between the highest earning regions and the lowest.
Gender pay gap explorer
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Time series related to Earnings and working hours
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AWE: Whole Economy Year on Year Three Month Average Growth (%): Seasonally Adjusted Total Pay Excluding Arrears
Year on year 3 months average
3.8 % 2019 AUG- Release date:
- 15 October 2019
- Next release:
- 12 November 2019
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£ 542 2019 AUG
- Release date:
- 15 October 2019
- Next release:
- 12 November 2019
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AWE: Whole Economy Year on Year Three Month Average Growth (%): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
Year on year 3 months average
3.8 % 2019 AUG- Release date:
- 15 October 2019
- Next release:
- 12 November 2019
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£ 509 2019 AUG
- Release date:
- 15 October 2019
- Next release:
- 12 November 2019
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37.3 hours 2019 JUN-AUG
- Release date:
- 15 October 2019
- Next release:
- 12 November 2019
Datasets related to Earnings and working hours
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EARN01: Average Weekly Earnings
Average Weekly Earnings (AWE), seasonally adjusted. This spreadsheet includes the headline estimates of earnings growth based on the Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey.
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Average Weekly Earnings time series
This dataset contains series for Average Weekly Earnings (AWE).
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Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings time series of selected estimates
Selected annual estimates of earnings and paid hours worked by UK employees using ASHE data from 1997 to 2018.
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Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) - Guide to tables
Guide to ASHE results tables.
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Gender pay gap
Annual gender pay gap estimates for UK employees by age, occupation, industry, full-time and part-time, region and other geographies, and public and private sector. Compiled from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
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Index of Labour Costs per Hour, seasonally adjusted
Index of Labour Costs per Hour (ILCH) values and yearly and quarterly growth for industries and sectors, seasonally adjusted, UK.
Publications related to Earnings and working hours
Statistical bulletins
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Employee earnings in the UK: 2018
Important measures of employee earnings, using data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). Figures are presented mainly for full-time employees, although some detail for part-time workers is also included.
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Index of Labour Costs per Hour, UK: April to June 2019 (experimental statistics)
Changes in the costs of employing labour, analysed by sector and industry.
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Average weekly earnings in Great Britain: October 2019
Estimates of growth in earnings for employees before tax and other deductions from pay.
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Labour market overview, UK: October 2019
Estimates of employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and other employment-related statistics for the UK.
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Low and high pay in the UK: 2018
The distribution of earnings of high- and low-paid jobs, earnings by selected percentiles and jobs paid below the National Minimum Wage. Compiled from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE).
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Gender pay gap in the UK: 2018
Differences in pay between women and men by age, region, full-time and part-time, and occupation as compiled from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). The gender pay gap is the percentage difference between men's and women’s median hourly earnings, across all jobs in the UK; it is not a measure of the difference in pay between men and women for doing the same job.
Articles
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National Living Wage earners fall short of average family spending
The National Living Wage is about to go up to £7.83 per hour – but how easy is it to live on? Our calculator lets you find out how affordable your lifestyle would be if you earned the National Living Wage.
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London had the smallest gender pay gap 20 years ago, but now it has the largest
The pay gap between men and women working in London has barely changed in over two decades, new ONS analysis shows.
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How do the jobs men and women do affect the gender pay gap?
Women are more likely than men to work in low-paid sectors, but even in roles dominated by women they often earn less.
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Contracts with No Guaranteed Hours
Latest figures from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) show 744,000 people are employed on a “zero-hours contract” in their main job. This represents 2.4% of all people in employment, an increase of 0.4% from the same period in 2014. People on a “zero-hours contract” are more likely to be women, in full-time education or in young or older age groups. They are likely to work 25 hours a week.
Methodology related to Earnings and working hours
- Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Low Pay and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Pension Results QMI
- A guide to sources of data on earnings and income
- Average weekly earnings QMI
- Guide to interpreting Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) estimates
- Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) methodology and guidance
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