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Public Sector: Pay

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Stephen Penneck:"As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many (a) civil servants and (b) other people whose salaries are paid from the public purse in Shropshire earn a basic salary greater than £100,000 per annum in the latest period for which figures are available. (99191)""The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (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.""Annual levels of earnings are estimated from the ASHE, and are provided for all employees on adult rates of pay, who have been in the same job for more than a year. ASHE methodology cannot be used to provide estimates of the numbers of employees whose earnings are more than a specific amount, but can be used to provide estimates of percentage of employees in that category.""Reliable statistics cannot be produced from ASHE on the number of public sector employees with gross annual earnings greater than £100,000 in Shropshire due to the relatively small sample size of public sector employees at this geographical breakdown.""The Annual Civil Service Employment Survey provides information on earnings and employment in the Civil Service. This survey shows that there were no Civil Servants in Shropshire earning above £100,000 in March 2011."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

99191; 542 c56-7W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Pay Public sector Shropshire

Link

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