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Employment: Pay

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Caron Walker, Director, Collection and Production, Office for National Statistics, to Baroness Lister, dated October 2013.

In the absence of the Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 29 August (WA 417), what proportion of jobs in the lowest pay quintile are paid (1) weekly, (2) fortnightly, (3) four weekly, and (4) monthly. (HL2279)

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. Weekly levels of earnings are estimated from ASHE, and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, whose earnings for the survey pay period were not affected by absence. ASHE also collects information about employees’ pay periods.

I attach tables showing the proportion of jobs with weekly, fortnightly, four weekly and monthly pay periods for jobs in the lowest pay quintile in April 2012, the latest period for which results are available. Figures have been provided separately for all jobs and full-time jobs.

Proportion of jobsa in the lowest pay quintileb with weekly, fortnightly, four weekly and monthly pay periods in April 2012.
Per cent of bottom quintile
Pay period	All employeesc	Full-time employeesd
Weekly	21.7	26.0
Two weeks	5.6	3.4
Four weeks	17.3	11.9
Month	55.4	58.7

Notes:^a. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.^b. Earnings quintiles are defined on the basis of gross weekly earnings. ASHE data for jobs that do not have weekly pay periods are converted into weekly figures.^c. For all employees, those in the bottom quintile have gross weekly earnings of less than £206.20^d. For full-time employees, those in the bottom quintile have gross weekly earnings of less than £334.60

Source:

Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), Office for National Statistics

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL2279; 748 cc8-9WA

Session

2013-14

Related items

Employment: Pay
Thursday, 29 August 2013
Written questions
House of Lords

Notes

Answer received between Tuesday 1 October and Tuesday 8 October 2013.

Subjects

Low pay

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.parliament.uk