DCS Multiserve, has taken a little look into some data behind UK salaries, including the regions and job titles with the highest and lowest salaries, and some insights into the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage. Where does your organization match up?
The highest paid job titles are likely to come as no surprise. Recently, the Independent revealed that the highest paid jobs are chief executives and senior officials, earning on average £85.3K per year.Following close behind are pilots and flight engineers at £85K a year, and air traffic controllers at £80K per year.
Transport Associate professionals (earning £75.5K per year) and marketing and sales professionals (earning £70K per year) also made the top five.The jobs with the lowest salaries, as identified by Business Insider UK, are topped by waiting staff, who earn on average £13,852.80 per year.
In second place are theme park attendants, earning £14,211.60 per year and third place is bar staff at £14,248 per year. Hairdressers and barbers, at £14,253.20 per year, and dry cleaners, earning on average £14,320.80 per year.How do UK salaries look by region? Latest research* has found that Scotland is the region with the highest salary, at an average of £28,289.30 per annum.
This is followed by the South East and South West, with average annual incomes of £27,658.25 and £26,019.93 respectively. Next in line is the East and West Midlands, with average annual incomes of £24,900.72 and £24,654.5, followed by the North East with average annual income £24,013.60 and North West with the average annual income of £23,825.24. The three regions with the lowest average income are Wales, at £23,614.93, Yorkshire at £23,575.07 and £23,301.20.
Believe it or not, there are some instances in the UK where the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) are still not paid. According to the Office for National Statistics, 362,000 jobs in the UK pay less than the NMW or NLW to employees 16 or over.That’s made up of 2.4% of part-time jobs and 0.9% of full-time jobs , which means that people who work part-time are more likely to be paid less.
Age makes a difference too, and people aged 18-20 are most likely to be paid less than the NMW or NLW. Gender matters too; 1.7% of all jobs worked by women pay less than the minimum wage, contrasted with just 1% of jobs worked by men – that’s 230,000 jobs contrasted with 132,000.
Finally, region makes a difference to whether you earn NMW and NLW – and people in the West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber are most likely to be paid less than the NMW or NLW; 1.7% of jobs in the West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber pay less than the minimum wage, equating to 40,000 and 38,000 jobs respectively.How does your organisation shape up?
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Salary insights have been provided by DCS Multiserve, cleaning company, Newcastle.
Sources
- http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Country=United_Kingdom/Salary
- *Other data from http://www.centreforcities.org/city-by-city/
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/lowpay/apr2016
- https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates
