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Pay benchmarking data published

Issue 33 - December 2009

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The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) has been published and provides the following headline data:

• Median annual pay is £25,816 - a rise of 2.6% year on year.
• Median weekly pay is £488.70 - a rise of 2.0%.
• Median hourly pay (excluding overtime) £12.34 a rise of 3.9%.
• Men’s median hourly pay (excluding overtime) is £12.97 - a rise of 3.8%.
• Women’s median hourly pay (excluding overtime) is £12.34 - a rise of 4.4%.

These figures indicate a narrowing of the gender pay gap to 22% overall but in the private sector it rose to 28.8%.