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Gloria De Piero MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
January 2015
Dear Ms De Piero,
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent
Parliamentary Question asking the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of women earned less than
two-thirds of the median hourly pay, excluding overtime, of all full and part-time female employees in each of
the years since 2010. (221252)
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. Hourly 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 is based on employee jobs, which are defined as those
held by employees and not the self-employed.
The attached table shows the proportion of employee jobs held by women with hourly earnings (excluding
overtime) below two-thirds the median earnings of all female employee jobs (i.e. all full- and part-time
female employee jobs combined) in the UK from 2010 to 2014, the latest period for which estimates are
available.
Yours sincerely,
Glen Watson
Director General for ONS
a
Proportion of employee jobs held by women with hourly earnings (excluding
overtime) below two-thirds the median earnings of all female employee jobs, UK,
April 2010-2014
Year (April)
b
2010 (two-thirds median = £6.60)
2011 (two-thirds median = £6.60)
2012 (two-thirds median = £6.70)
2013 (two-thirds median = £6.87)
2014 (two-thirds median = £6.91)
Notes:
%
17.6
17.2
16.5
16.8
15.9
a. Employee jobs are defined as those held by employees and
not the self-employed. Figures relate to employees on adult
rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by
absence. ASHE is based on a 1% sample of jobs taken from
HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records.
Consequently, individuals with more than one job may appear
in the sample more than once.
b. Dashed line indicates a break in series. Estimates for years
prior to 2011 are based on Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC) 2000 and estimates for years after 2011
are based on SOC 2010. Figures are only considered to be
directly comparable if they are based on the same SOC.
Source:
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), Office for National Statistics