Average Earnings
Cabinet Office
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood, Labour)
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the average income was of (a) full-time male, (b) full-time female, (c) part-time male and (d) part-time female workers in (i) Birmingham, Ladywood constituency, (ii) Birmingham local authority area and (iii) West Midlands region in the last 12 months.
Nick Hurd (Parliamentary Secretary (Civil Society), Cabinet Office; Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, Conservative)
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the average income was of (a) full-time male, (b) full-time female, (c) part-time male and (d) part-time female workers in (i) Birmingham, Ladywood constituency, (ii) Birmingham local authority area and (iii) West Midlands region in the last 12 months. (106940).
It is not possible to provide average income estimates for the breakdowns requested but average earnings estimates are available.
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. The ASHE, carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom.
The following table shows median gross weekly earnings in Birmingham, Ladywood constituency, Birmingham local authority and the West Midlands in 2011.
| Median gross weekly earnings (a) for full-time male, full-time female, part-time male and part time female employee jobs: (i) Birmingham, Ladywood constituency, (ii) Birmingham local authority, (iii) West Midlands for April 2011 | |||
| £ | |||
| Gross weekly earnings | Birmingham, Ladywood (b) | Birmingham (c) | West Midlands (d) |
| Full-time male | 563.8 | 538.8 | 501.3 |
| Part-time male | **121.0 | *135.9 | 141.4 |
| Full-time female | 464.7 | 432.7 | 401.2 |
| Part-time female | **178.5 | *156.0 | 152.3 |
| Notes: (a) Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. (b) ( )Parliamentary constituency. (c) Local authority. (d) UK region. Guide to quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV—for example, for an average of 200 with a CV of 5%, we would expect the population average to be within the range 180 to 220. Key: CV <= 5% * CV > 5% and <= 10% ** CV > 10% and <= 20% X unreliable. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), Office for National Statistics. | |||