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Average Earnings

Volume 474: debated on Thursday 3 April 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what the average annual (a) earnings were and (b) household income was in Wales in each of the last three years. (197908)

Average earnings figures complied by the Office for National Statistics are published as a weekly figure. The data for 2007, 2006 and 2005 are as follows:

Average gross weekly earnings (full-time) (£)

2007

472.1

2006

466.2

2005

1454.8

1 Due to a change in Office for National Statistics methodology the 2005 figure is not directly comparable to 2006 and 2007.

The latest data on estimated gross disposable household income in Wales for the years 2003, 2004 and 2005 were published in March 2007 and are as follows:

Estimated gross disposable household income (GDHI) (£)

2005

11,851

2004

11,322

2003

10,932