More On Qualifications… And Jobs… And Pay ….

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Statistics show that on average women who live in our district and work full-time earn more than men working full-time.

Earlier in the week we wrote about the number of local people without qualifications..

We now have some more information – but this time, based on Rochford District as a whole, not on parliamentary constituencies.

These figures are all for adults aged between 16 and 64, for the year 2010:


Qualifications

These figures are a bit depressing…

  • The percentage of people without qualifications is 15.3 % – worse than the national average of 11.3 %.
  • We also have a lot fewer people with university degrees or their equivalent -20.5 % compared with the national figure of 31.3 %.

    • Employment

    These figures are a bit encouraging….

  • The percentage of people actually in work is 77.8 % – better than the national average is 70.3 %
  • The percentage of people who are self-employed is 13.2 % – higher than the national average of 9.1 %
  • The percentage of people who are “Managers and senior officials” is rather high at 16.7 % (national average is only 15.7 %)

    • Earnings

    These figures are a bit surprising

  • First of all, average (median) weekly earnings of people living in our district are above the national average- ?525.60 per week compared with ?501.80 for Britain as a whole.
  • Interestingly, average (median ) earnings for women who live in our district are higher than for men – ?531.20 for women, ?519.50 for men.
  • But earnings for people who have their workplace in our district are a lot lower. Average earnings are ?440.10 – and men do a lot better than women – average male earnings are ?479.20, average earnings for women are only ?388.00.

    • So what can we deduce from this? Well, quite a lot of our adult population left school without qualifications, but have still found jobs and careers. And we have quite a lot of people -especially women – who commute out of the district, are probably managers or senior officials and have decent salaries. But people who work locally receive much lower earnings….

    The data comes from the Office of National Statistics and you can find it here. We’re grateful to the person who pointed us towards this information.

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