Summary

Measures of employee earnings, using data from the Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings (ASHE).

Publications

• Low and high pay in the UK: 2023

  The distribution of hourly earnings of high-paid and low-paid jobs and jobs paid below the National Minimum Wage.

• Employee earnings in the UK: 2023

  Measures of employee earnings, using data from the Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings (ASHE).

• Gender pay gap explorer

  Use our interactive tool to find out the gender pay gap for your job.

• Gender pay gap in the UK: 2023

  Differences in pay between women and men by age, region, full-time and part-time, and occupation.

Data

• Earnings and hours worked, age group by occupation by two-digit SOC: ASHE Table 20

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by age group and two-digit Standard Occupational Classification.

• Earnings and hours worked, region by occupation by two-digit SOC: ASHE Table 3

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by region and two-digit Standard Occupational Classification.

• Earnings and hours worked, workplace International Territorial Levels (ITLs): ASHE Table 32

  Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full time and part time, by work International Territorial Levels (ITLs).

• Earnings and hours worked, industry by four-digit SIC: ASHE Table 16

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by four-digit Standard Industrial Classification 2007.

• Earnings and hours worked, place of residence by local authority: ASHE Table 8

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by home-based region to local and unitary authority level.

• Earnings and hours worked, industry by two-digit SIC: ASHE Table 4

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by two-digit Standard Industrial Classification 2007.

• Earnings and hours worked, place of work by local authority: ASHE Table 7

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by work-based region to local and unitary authority level.

• Earnings time series of mean gross weekly earnings from 1938 to 2023

  Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), New Earnings Survey (NES) and the British Labour Statistics Historical Abstract earnings time series, which covers Great Britain gross weekly data from 1938 to 2023 split by gender.

• Earnings and hours worked, place of residence by local enterprise partnerships: ASHE Table 28

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by home-based local enterprise partnerships.

• Earnings and hours worked, homeplace International Territorial Levels (ITLs): ASHE Table 33

  Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full time and part time, by home International Territorial Levels (ITLs).

• Earnings and hours worked, age group: ASHE Table 6

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by age group.

• Earnings and hours worked, occupation by two-digit SOC: ASHE Table 2

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by two-digit Standard Occupational Classification.

• Earnings time series of median gross weekly earnings from 1968 to 2023

  New Earnings Survey (NES) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) percentile and median time series by full-time employees, full-time males and full-time females.

• 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 2023

• Earnings and hours worked, public and private sector: ASHE Table 13

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by public and private sector, and non-profit bodies and mutual associations.

• Distribution of low-paid jobs by 10 pence bands

  Annual estimates of the number and proportion of UK jobs paying below various 10 pence thresholds and the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage, by employee age group, from 1998 to 2023.

• Earnings and hours worked, place of work by Parliamentary constituency: ASHE Table 9

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by work-based Parliamentary constituency.

• Earnings and hours worked, UK region by industry by two-digit SIC: ASHE Table 5

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by region and two-digit Standard Industrial Classification 2007.

• Earnings and hours worked, all employees: ASHE Table 1

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time.

• Earnings and hours worked, residence-based travel to work area: ASHE Table 12

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by home-based travel to work area.

• Earnings and hours worked, UK region by public and private sector: ASHE Table 25

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by region, and public and private sector, and non-profit bodies and mutual associations.

• Earnings and hours worked, UK region by age group

  Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full time and part time, by region and age group.

• Estimates of earnings for the highest paid employee jobs by public and private sectors, UK

  Estimates of paid hours worked, weekly, hourly and annual earnings for the highest paid (90 to 99 percentiles) employee jobs in the UK, by public and private sectors.

• Earnings and hours worked, work-based travel to work area: ASHE Table 11

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by work-based travel to work area.

• Number and proportion of employee jobs with hourly pay below the living wage

  Estimates of the number and proportion of UK employee jobs with hourly pay below the living wage, by region, work geography, local authority and Parliamentary constituency, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

• Earnings and hours worked, place of residence by Parliamentary constituency: ASHE Table 10

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by home-based Parliamentary constituency.

• Earnings and hours worked, care workers: ASHE Table 26

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, for care workers, home carers and senior care workers as defined in the Standard Occupational Classification.

• Earnings and hours worked, place of work by local enterprise partnerships: ASHE Table 27

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by work-based local enterprise partnerships.

• Jobs paid below minimum wage by category

  Number of UK jobs paid below minimum wage by sex, age, occupation and industry, and region, annual estimates, 1998 to 2023. Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

• Earnings and hours worked, occupation by four-digit SOC: ASHE Table 14

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by four-digit Standard Occupational Classification.

• Earnings and hours worked, age group by industry by two-digit SIC: ASHE Table 21

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by age group and two-digit Standard Industrial Classification 2007.

• Earnings and hours worked, region by occupation by four-digit SOC: ASHE Table 15

  Annual estimates of paid hours worked, weekly, hourly and annual earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by region and four-digit Standard Occupational Classification.

• Earnings and hours worked, by industry and occupation: ASHE Table 29

  Estimates of paid hours worked, and weekly, hourly and annual earnings in the UK. Estimates are broken down by industry section and one and two-digit occupation. Figures are given separately for all UK employees, by gender and full-time or part-time workers. Coefficients of variation are included for all estimates.

• 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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