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National Income

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 7 November 2006:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on the share of national income going to a) wages and b) salaries for each year since 1992. (100387)""We are unable to provide levels split between wages and salaries. The following table shows wages and salaries as a percentage of gross national income."

	Gross national income¹ (£ million)	Wages and salaries² (£ million)	Wages and Salaries as percentage of gross national income³ (Percentage)
1992	607849	302841	50
1993	637955	310548	49
1994	681263	321680	47
1995	716986	336290	47
1996	762853	351322	46
1997	811797	374510	46
1998	869706	406548	47
1999	904737	431795	48
2000	954004	462505	49
2001	1005313	491044	49
2002	1069839	508681	48
2003	1132938	527689	47
2004	1202075	550654	46
2005	1253429	576703	46
¹ Gross national income represents the total income of UK residents. It can be derived from GDP by adding net employment income and net property income from the rest of the world.
² Wages and salaries cannot be split into the two constituent parts, as data sources from tax records and from business surveys only provide the aggregate total wages and salaries data.
³ This has been rounded to one decimal place.

"These estimates are expressed in nominal terms that are not adjusted for the effects of general price inflation.""Further data on the component of gross national income are available from table 1.1 in the""‘United Kingdom National Accounts—The Blue Book 2006’ which is available at the following address:""http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=1143&Pos=1&ColRank=1&Rank=272"

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

451 c1540-1W; 100387

Session

2005-06

Subjects

National income Pay

Link

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