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Business Intelligence Statistical Bulletin
February 2016
Earnings in Kent 2015
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This bulletin looks at resident and workplace
based earnings during 2015 in Kent, its local
authority districts and Medway and provides
comparisons with the South East and Great
Britain.
Kent Area Summary
Median earnings of people who live in Kent
In 2015, the full-time weekly earnings for workers living in Kent was £552.00. This was above the national figure of £529.00 but below the South East regional figure of £574.90
The weekly full time earnings for males living in Kent was £599.40 and for females was £461.50.
People living in the west of Kent have higher earnings than in the east. The highest earners live in
Tonbridge and Malling district and have average weekly full time earnings of £640.80.
Residents in Thanet district had the lowest median weekly full-time earnings at £439.50
Median weekly earnings for Kent residents have increased by £140.20 since 2002, an increase of 34.0%. This is higher than regional increase (+32.1%) but lower than the national increase (+34.9%)
Median earnings of people who work in Kent
The weekly full time earnings for people who work in Kent was £504.10. This is below the regional average of £552.10 and the national average of £529.00
People who work in Dartford district had the highest weekly earnings of all the districts in Kent at £567.10
Thanet district had the second lowest weekly workplace earnings of districts in the whole of the South East Region at £415.80
Gross Disposable
Household Income - The average annual
disposable income of households in Kent Earnings, Income and Housing Affordability in Kent – a more detailed report of income and housing affordability in the county.
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Introduction
Earnings data comes from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) from the Office for National Statistics. Data is based on a sample of employee
jobs taken from HM Revenue & Customs PAYE records. ASHE does not cover the self-employed or employees not paid during the reference period (for example those employees on unpaid sick leave).
ASHE data looks at earnings based on resident or workplace populations. Workplace based data is available from 1998 and resident based data is available from 2002.
ASHE provides data on gross earnings (earnings before tax, National
Insurance or other deductions) for employees by gender and by full-time and part-time workers. Full-time employees are defined as those who work more than 30 paid hours per week or those in teaching professions working 25 paid hours or more per week. At district level some data for part-time workers is suppressed due to statistical unreliability.
This bulletin uses the latest data released in December 2015 which includes revisions to previously released data.
Median earnings are presented in this bulletin although mean earnings are also available from this dataset. The median value is the mid-point in the distribution of earnings data in the survey. The median value is the preferred measure of earnings, as it is less affected by a relatively small number of very high earners that tend to skew the distribution of earnings. It therefore gives a better indication of typical pay than the mean.
Resident based earnings
Resident based earnings show the amount a worker earns based on where they live.
Map 1 shows the weekly full time resident based earnings in England. The map clearly shows that those with the highest weekly earnings live largely in the south east of England, mainly around the London area. There are no local authorities in the south west of England where residents’ weekly full time earnings are within the top 20% in the country.
The Kent map shows that those with the highest weekly earnings (those with earnings within the top 20% in the country), live in the west of the county in Tonbridge & Malling, Dartford, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells. People living in Thanet district have the lowest weekly earnings of the Kent districts, within the bottom 20% in England.
Map 1: Resident based weekly full time earnings
Chart 1 shows the resident based full time weekly earnings in Kent local authority districts and districts in the South East region and compares them to the Great Britain average. Residents in Kent (£552.00) and the South East Region (£574.90) have higher weekly earnings than in Great Britain as a whole (£529.60). The chart shows that two Kent districts, Thanet and Dover, have resident weekly earnings below the national average. Thanet has the lowest resident earnings in the whole of the South East.
Chart 1: Resident based full time weekly earnings in South East local authorities 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 El m br idg e H ar t W ind so r a nd M ai de nh ead C hi lt er n W av e rl ey W o ki ng h am So ut h B uc ks Spe lt h o rne Surr ey H eat h Eps o m a nd Ew e ll W inc he st e r G ui ldf o rd To nb ri dg e a nd M al ling Ta nd ri dg e R ei gat e an d B an st ead H o rsh am B as ing st o ke a nd D ean e So ut h O xf o rds hi re M id Sus se x W o ki ng W yc o m be Te st Va lle y Val e o f W hi te Hor se W es t B er ksh ir e R un ny m ede M o le Va lle y Se ve no ak s B ra ck ne ll F o re st C an te rbu ry Ea st Ha m ps hi re D ar tf o rd Far eha m W eal de n R ead ing W es t O xf o rds hi re Tunbri dg e W el ls C he rwe ll O xf o rd M ai ds to ne A yl esb ur y Va le M edway Lewe s A sh fo rd Ea st le ig h B ri ght o n an d H o ve Gr ave sham C raw le y She pwa y Sl o ug h C hi che st er Sw al e N ew For est G o sp o rt M ilt o n Ke yne s W o rt hi ng Ea st bour ne H av an t R o the r R us hm o o r P o rt sm o ut h So ut ha m pt o n A du r D o ve r A run Isl e o f W ig ht H as ti ng s Tha n et £s p er we ek
Residence based gross full time weekly earnings in South East local authorities, 2015
Kent districts GB
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Presented by: Research & Evaluation, Kent County Council
Chart 2 shows the median weekly earnings of residents in Kent local authority districts compared to the average for the South East and Great Britain as a whole. Residents in eight Kent districts have earnings below the average for the South East region.
Chart 2: Median weekly resident earnings in the KCC area
Table 1 shows the resident based full time and part time weekly earnings of male and female residents in Kent local authority districts.
Table 1: Resident based weekly earnings in Kent local authority districts
Overall earnings of people living in Kent have increased by 34.0% since 2002 equivalent to an increase of £140.20 per week. This is shown in chart 3.
£640 .80 £595 .50 £583 .40 £577 .20 £565 .10 £557 .70 £55 3. 70 £55 2. 00 £54 8. 60 £545 .00 £543 .80 £537 .40 £498 .40 £439 .50 £0.00 £100.00 £200.00 £300.00 £400.00 £500.00 £600.00 £700.00 £ p e r we e k
Median Weekly Resident Earnings, 2015
South East Great Britain
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Presented by: Research & Evaluation, Kent County Council
2015 Resident based weekly
earnings Total Males & Females Total Males Total Females
Area All workers
Full Time Workers
Part Time
Workers All workers Full Time Workers Part Time Workers All workers Full Time Workers Part Time Workers Ashford £415.00 £548.60 £151.80 £565.90 £605.60 £155.60 £306.20 £405.20 £144.80 Canterbury £449.70 £583.40 £169.70 £542.20 £606.80 ~ £333.90 £492.50 £182.70 Dartford £503.50 £577.20 ~ £604.10 £640.30 ~ £399.40 £492.50 # Dover £426.20 £498.40 £152.90 £510.60 £549.00 ~ £330.20 £445.10 £152.30 Gravesham £422.90 £545.00 £134.90 £559.60 £575.50 ~ £288.10 £456.20 £142.80 Maidstone £451.30 £557.70 £186.70 £563.10 £599.00 ~ £350.30 £481.80 £187.80 Sevenoaks £478.70 £595.50 £168.90 £587.90 £651.00 ~ £341.30 £559.50 £169.30 Shepway £423.30 £543.80 £169.40 £573.20 £605.60 ~ £288.10 £388.30 £165.50 Swale £422.00 £537.40 £159.80 £536.40 £558.00 ~ £302.00 £453.80 £170.00 Thanet £337.80 £439.50 £147.30 £416.00 £489.10 £136.00 £294.70 £382.90 £156.50
Tonbridge and Malling £522.50 £640.80 £190.10 £638.30 £697.50 £170.30 £372.40 £536.70 £190.50
Tunbridge Wells £464.40 £565.10 £143.10 £560.70 £656.40 ~ £367.50 £507.60 £153.60
Kent £442.40 £552.00 £161.60 £560.20 £599.40 £155.40 £324.40 £461.50 £165.00
Medway £475.10 £553.70 £163.00 £574.90 £613.30 £165.40 £328.80 £469.60 £162.10
South East £467.90 £574.90 £172.80 £574.90 £626.50 £157.60 £357.00 £499.50 £178.10 Great Britain £427.30 £529.60 £167.40 £520.50 £570.40 £155.50 £339.40 £471.60 £172.30 ~ : Figures are not available due to either supression because of statistical unreliability or the figures are missing from original data set
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - resident analysis Presented by: Research & Evaluation, Kent County Council
The chart also shows a noticeable fall in average earnings in Kent in 2012 which was not seen regionally or nationally. Earnings have increased in Kent since the previous year (+1.9% or +£10.30 per week) this is a higher increase than seen in the South East region (+1.4% or +£7.70 per week) and the same as Great Britain (+1.6% or +£8.50 per week).
Chart 3: Residence based earnings since 2002
ASHE data can provide a comparison of male and female earnings. However this does not show differences in rates of pay for comparable jobs. This is because they do not allow for the different employment characteristics of men and women, such as the proportion in different occupations and their length of time in jobs.
Chart 4 shows how male and female resident based weekly earnings have grown in the Kent area since 2002. While both male and female earnings have grown, the difference between male and female earnings living in Kent has increased since 2002. Male earnings have always been higher than females earnings. This gap remains fairly constant nationally and regionally however the gap between male and female earnings of Kent residents has widened since 2002. Male full time weekly earnings in 2002 were £104.30 greater than female earnings and £137.90 higher in 2015.
300 350 400 450 500 550 600 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 M e d ian w e e kl y fu ll-tim e e ar n in gs (£)
Median weekly full-time earnings (resident based), since 2002
Great Britain South East Kent
Chart 4: Male and female resident based weekly earnings in Kent
Workplace based earnings
Workplace based earnings show the amount a worker earns based on where they work.
Map 2 shows the weekly full time workplace based earnings in England. The map shows that those workers with the highest weekly earnings work in London and the areas to the west of London.
Map 2: Workplace based full time weekly earnings
£449 .9 £464 .6 £488 .3 £500 .0 £519 .6 £547 .8 £565 .5 £559 .3 £581 .6 £604 .7 £595 .2 £608 .9 £598 .0 £599 .4 £345 .6 £362 .6 £374 .8 £379 .3 £383 .3 £421 .6 £421 .0 £434 .0 £440 .6 £441 .9 £446 .7 £446 .4 £457 .8 £46 1. 5 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 W ee kly E arn in gs (£s)
Resident Based Median Weekly Full Time Earnings in Kent 2002-2015
Male Female
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - resident based Presented by: Research & Evaluation, Kent County Council
In Kent the average earnings of workers in Thanet district are within the bottom 20% in the country. Dartford district has workplace earnings within the top 20% in the country.
Chart 5 shows the workplace based full time weekly earnings in 2015 in local authorities in the South East region and compares them to Great Britain as a whole. Ten Kent districts have workplace earnings below the national
average. Thanet district has the second lowest workplace earnings in the South East.
Chart 5: Workplace based full time weekly earnings in South East local authorities
Chart 6 looks more closely at the earnings of people who work in Kent. People who work in Kent have weekly full time earnings of £504.10. This is below the national earnings of £529.00 and the South East earnings of £552.10. The chart shows that two Kent districts; Dartford and Gravesham, have workplace weekly earnings above the national level. The lowest workplace earnings in Kent are in Thanet district, with weekly earnings of £415.80. 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 W o ki ng h am R un ny m ede W ind so r a nd M ai de nh ead R ei gat e an d B an st ead W es t B er ksh ir e Spe lt h o rne M o le Va lle y El m br idg e H ar t Val e o f W hi te Hor se B ra ck ne ll F o re st G ui ldf o rd R us hm o o r C raw le y B as ing st o ke a nd D ean e Sl o ug h Re adi ng W inc he st e r So ut h O xf o rds hi re O xf o rd W yc o m be C hi lt er n D ar tf o rd So ut h B uc ks Sur re y H eat h G o sp o rt M ilt o n Ke yne s So ut ha m pt o n C he rwe ll Le we s Ea st le ig h M id Sus se x G rav e sh am P o rt sm o ut h Eps o m a nd Ew e ll Far eha m H o rsh am W es t O xf o rds hi re Ea st bo ur ne H av an t Ea st Ha m ps hi re Te st Va lle y To nb ri dg e a nd M al ling N ew For est Tun br idg e W el ls B ri ght o n an d H o ve A yl esb ur y Va le W av e rl ey D o ve r Sw al e M edway M ai ds to ne Ta nd ri dg e A sh fo rd Se ve no ak s W o rt hi ng C hi che st er W o ki ng H as ti ng s Shepwa y C an te rbu ry A du r W eal de n Isl e o f W ig ht A run Tha n et R o the r £s p er w ee k
Workplace based gross weekly full time earnings in South East local authorities, 2015
KCC districts GB
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Presented by: Research & Evaluation, Kent County Council
Chart 6: Workplace based weekly earnings in Kent local authority districts
Table 2 shows the full time and part time weekly earnings of males and females working in Kent local authority districts.
Table 2: Workplace based weekly earnings in Kent local authority districts
Chart 7 shows how workplace based earnings have grown since 1998. Kent workplace earnings have always been below the national and regional
averages, however while workplace earnings have continued to grow in Kent the gap between Kent and the national and regional averages has increased over recent years.
£567 .10 £535 .00 £518 .80 £517 .90 £506 .10 £505 .80 £505 .70 £504 .10 £499 .40 £492 .60 £489 .70 £467 .60 £466 .10 £4 15 .80 £0.00 £100.00 £200.00 £300.00 £400.00 £500.00 £600.00 £700.00 £ p e r we e k
Median Weekly Workplace Earnings, 2015
South East Great Britain
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Presented by: Research & Evaluation, Kent County Council
Workplace based 2015 Total Males & Females Total Males Total Females
Area All workers
Full Time Workers
Part Time
Workers All workers Full Time Workers Part Time Workers All workers Full Time Workers Part Time Workers Ashford £392.20 £492.60 £162.30 £523.10 £594.50 ~ £305.10 £388.30 £153.70 Canterbury £350.10 £466.10 £157.70 £445.90 £490.60 £147.50 £284.60 £396.50 £162.20 Dartford £486.60 £567.10 £172.10 £588.40 £621.70 ~ £363.90 £485.80 £170.70 Dover £409.00 £506.10 £153.80 £534.10 £594.30 ~ £319.70 £421.70 ~ Gravesham £376.30 £535.00 £136.80 £543.80 £581.90 ~ £242.10 £409.40 £138.90 Maidstone £411.50 £499.40 £155.50 £516.70 £547.30 £163.50 £308.80 £413.50 £154.30 Sevenoaks £408.20 £489.70 £152.50 £522.00 £553.50 ~ £305.00 £438.80 £153.20 Shepway £390.40 £467.60 £149.70 £536.10 £591.70 ~ £262.40 £395.40 £145.70 Swale £398.00 £505.80 £149.30 £496.10 £539.20 ~ £288.40 £459.30 £150.00 Thanet £319.30 £415.80 £147.00 £403.50 £451.50 ~ £272.70 £374.50 £148.60
Tonbridge and Malling £402.60 £518.80 £170.40 £512.80 £550.80 ~ £299.30 £415.10 £179.50
Tunbridge Wells £422.30 £517.90 £144.70 £521.20 £549.90 ~ £377.30 £450.50 £144.30
Kent £401.70 £504.10 £155.10 £514.90 £554.30 £155.20 £307.00 £424.30 £155.00
Medway £421.60 £505.70 £179.20 £518.80 £573.40 £311.20 £439.80 £173.50
South East £447.00 £552.10 £169.00 £552.10 £600.00 £154.50 £345.00 £484.70 £174.50 Great Britain £426.80 £529.00 £167.20 £520.00 £569.90 £155.50 £339.00 £471.50 £171.90 ~ : Figures are not available due to either supression because of statistical unreliability or the figures are missing from original data set
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - workplace analysis Office for National Statistcs (ONS) © Crown Copyright Presented by: Research & Evaluation, Kent County Council
Chart 7:Workplace based earnings since 1998
Chart 8 shows how male and female workplace based full time weekly earnings have grown in Kent as a whole since 1998. Male earnings have grown by 36.2% and female earnings by 39.0%.
Since 2014 male workplace earnings have grown by 2.8% while female earnings have grown by 0.3%.
The difference between the earnings for males and females working in Kent has changed very little since 1998. The difference between male and female full time weekly earnings in 1998 was £89.20, males being paid 24.6% more than females. In 2015 male earnings were 23.5% higher than female
earnings, £130.00 per week difference in real tearms.
Chart 8: Male and female workplace based weekly earnings in Kent
300 350 400 450 500 550 600 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 M e d ian w e e kl y fu ll-tim e e ar n in gs (£)
Median weekly full-time earnings (workplace based), since 1998
Great Britain South East Kent £362 .1 £373 .6 £385 .4 £397 .3 £423 .4 £431 .8 £445 .4 £451 .3 £47 9. 6 £5 06 .0 £519 .1 £523 .3 £536 .6 £546 .2 £544 .2 £542 .4 £539 .4 £554 .3 £272 .9 £278 .3 £287 .9 £308 .1 £317 .9 £345 .4 £349 .2 £35 7. 8 £360 .2 £3 81 .0 £387 .5 £406 .0 £404 .4 £415 .1 £421 .3 £413 .5 £423 .0 £424 .3 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Wee kl y Ear n in gs (£s)
Workplace Based Median Weekly Full Time Earnings in Kent 1998-2015
Male Female
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - workplace based Presented by: Research & Evaluation
Workplace and resident based earnings comparison
The earnings for people who work in Kent are lower than the earnings of workers who live in Kent. Kent is a net exporter of labour and most of those who live in Kent but work elsewhere go to London to work where the salaries are higher.
In Kent as a whole, people who work in the county have full time weekly earnings which are £47.90 or 8.7% lower than for those who live in the county. In Kent local authority districts the biggest difference can be seen in Tonbridge and Malling district where workplace earnings are 19.0% lower (£122.00) than resident earnings. Dover is the only district in the county where workplace earnings are higher than resident earnings.
This is shown in table 3.
Table 3: Comparison of resident and workplace based full time weekly earnings
The next update to the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings is due in December 2016 and this bulletin will be revised accordingly.
2015 Resident Workplace Difference (£s) Difference (%)
Ashford £548.60 £492.60 -£56.00 -10.2% Canterbury £583.40 £466.10 -£117.30 -20.1% Dartford £577.20 £567.10 -£10.10 -1.7% Dover £498.40 £506.10 £7.70 1.5% Gravesham £545.00 £535.00 -£10.00 -1.8% Maidstone £557.70 £499.40 -£58.30 -10.5% Sevenoaks £595.50 £489.70 -£105.80 -17.8% Shepway £543.80 £467.60 -£76.20 -14.0% Swale £537.40 £505.80 -£31.60 -5.9% Thanet £439.50 £415.80 -£23.70 -5.4%
Tonbridge and Malling £640.80 £518.80 -£122.00 -19.0%
Tunbridge Wells £565.10 £517.90 -£47.20 -8.4%
Kent £552.00 £504.10 -£47.90 -8.7%
Medway £553.70 £505.70 -£48.00 -8.7%
South East £574.90 £552.10 -£22.80 -4.0%
Great Britain £529.60 £529.00 -£0.60 -0.1%
Source: ONS - Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Presented by: Research & Evaluation, Kent County Council
