Pay Systems
(asked on 21st February 2018) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the proportion of total workers' pay comprised of a (a) fixed pay rate and (b) variable pay rate or performance awards in each of the last 11 years.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish data on the components of mean full-time gross weekly earnings, which include basic pay, overtime pay, incentive pay and shift premium pay. This is provided in the table below for the period 2007 to 2017. Further information on the definitions of the components of pay can be found at the following link:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/methodologies/guidetointerpretingannualsurveyofhoursandearningsasheestimates#what-do-the-different-components-of-pay-mean
Year | Overtime pay | Incentive pay | Shift premium pay | Basic pay | ||||
2007 | 3.4% |
| 1.7% |
| 1.1% |
| 93.8% |
|
2008 | 3.4% |
| 1.9% |
| 1.1% |
| 93.6% |
|
2009 | 2.8% |
| 1.4% |
| 1.0% |
| 94.8% |
|
2010 | 2.9% |
| 1.5% |
| 1.0% |
| 94.5% |
|
2011 | 2.7% | 2.7% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 1.0% | 1.0% | 94.8% | 94.8% |
2012 |
| 2.7% |
| 1.3% |
| 1.1% | 94.9% | |
2013 |
| 2.7% |
| 1.3% |
| 1.1% | 94.9% | |
2014 |
| 2.7% |
| 1.2% |
| 1.0% | 95.1% | |
2015 |
| 2.6% |
| 1.1% |
| 1.0% | 95.3% | |
2016 |
| 2.5% |
| 1.1% |
| 1.0% | 95.3% | |
2017 |
| 2.5% |
| 1.2% |
| 1.0% |
| 95.3% |
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) – Office for National Statistics
Note:
Employees on adult rates, pay unaffected by absence
Full-time defined as employees working more than 30 paid hours per work (or 25 or more for the teaching professions)
There is a discontinuity in the dataset resulting from changes to the ASHE methodology – in 2011 the Standard Occupational Classification 2010 replaced the Standard Occupational Classification 2000.
2017 data is provisional
Values are rounded to 1 decimal place
There are known coverage issues with data on bonus and incentive payments, as the information is often not available to the respondents at the time they provide the information.