Wales
Location of low pay
Key points
- Almost half of all employees in Pembrokeshire earn less than £7 per hour. This is a much higher proportion than elsewhere.
- More generally, the geographic pattern of low pay is very different from that for lack of work (see the indicator on the location of people in receipt of out-of-work benefits).
- Wales has a similar proportion of employees earning less than £7 per hour as other parts of the United Kingdom, except for London and the South East of England.
Graph 1: By LA
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Map
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Graph 2: Compared to UK
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Definitions and data sources
The first graph and map show the proportions of employees paid less than £7 per hour by local authority. The data is based on where people live rather than where they work. To improve its statistical reliability, the data is the average for the years 2005 to 2007.
The second graph shows, for 2007, how the proportions of employees paid less than £7 per hour in Wales compares with the rest of the UK, with the data shown separately for men and women.
The data source for both the graphs and the map is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). The proportions have been calculated from the hourly rates at each decile using interpolation to estimate the consequent proportion earning less than £7 per hour.
Overall adequacy of the indicator: high. ASHE is a large annual survey of employers.