{"id":7041,"date":"2011-08-06T21:19:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T21:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2011-08-07T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T13:20:55","slug":"more-on-qualifications-and-jobs-and-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/more-on-qualifications-and-jobs-and-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"More On Qualifications&#8230;  And Jobs&#8230; And Pay &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7063\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/business-woman1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/business-woman1-400x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Businesswoman\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7063 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/business-woman1-400x288.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/business-woman1.jpg 408w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/288;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/business-woman1-400x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Businesswoman\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/business-woman1-400x288.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/business-woman1.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statistics show that on average women who live in our district and work full-time earn more than men working full-time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in the week we wrote about the number of local people without qualifications..<\/p>\n<p>We now have some more information &#8211; but this time, based on Rochford District as a whole, not on parliamentary constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>These figures are all for adults aged between 16 and 64, for the year 2010: <\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nQualifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These figures are a bit depressing&#8230;<\/p>\n<li>The percentage of people without qualifications is 15.3 % &#8211; worse than the national average of 11.3 %.<\/li>\n<li>We also have a <em>lot fewer <\/em>people with university degrees or their equivalent -20.5 % compared with the national figure of 31.3 %.<\/li>\n<p><strong>Employment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>These<\/em> figures are a bit encouraging&#8230;.<\/p>\n<li>The percentage of people actually in work is 77.8 % &#8211; better than the national average is 70.3 %\n<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of people who are self-employed is 13.2 % &#8211; higher than the national average of 9.1 %<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of people who are &#8220;Managers and senior officials&#8221; is rather high at 16.7 % (national average is only 15.7 %)<\/li>\n<p><strong>Earnings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These figures are a bit <em>surprising<\/em><\/p>\n<li> 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.<\/li>\n<li> Interestingly, average (median ) earnings for women who live in our district are higher than for men &#8211; ?531.20 for women, ?519.50 for men. <\/li>\n<li>But earnings for people who have their <em>workplace <\/em>in our district are a <em>lot<\/em> lower. Average earnings are ?440.10 &#8211; and men do a lot better than women &#8211; average male earnings are ?479.20, average earnings for women are only ?388.00.<\/li>\n<p>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 &#8211; 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&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The data comes from the Office of National Statistics and you can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomisweb.co.uk\/reports\/lmp\/la\/2038431775\/report.aspx?town=rochford#tabquals\">here.<\/a> We&#8217;re grateful to the person who pointed us towards this information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week we wrote about the number of local people without qualifications.. 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