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Basic Wages

Volume 640: debated on Monday 8 May 1961

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asked the Minister of Labour if he will make an estimate of the number of work people who are on a basic wage of less than £9 per week, and the number of work people whose average wages are less than £10 per week.

I regret that no information is available about the number of work people on a basic wage of less than £9 per week.Of the 4,871,743 men included in the inquiry into the distribution of earnings of full-time manual workers held in respect of the second pay week in October, 1960, 468,224 or 9·6 per cent. earned less than £10 in the week of the return: of the 1,041,917 women concerned 907,556 or 87·1 per cent. earned less than £10.