Social Services: Pay
(asked on 2nd July 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the (a) mean average hourly pay (b) median average hourly pay and (c) most common rate of hourly pay for social care workers in each year from 2010 to 2018.
Skills for Care collects data on adult social care workers in England through their National Minimum Wage data set.
The following table details the trends in care worker hourly pay for the independent sector from 2011 to 2018.
| October 2011-September 2012 | October 2012-September 2013 | October 2013-September 2014 | October 2014-September 2015 | October 2015-September 2016 | October 2016-September 2017 | October 2017-September 2018 |
Median | £7.45 | £7.60 | £7.69 | £8.00 | £8.00 | £8.30 | £8.55 |
Mean | £6.99 | £7.11 | £7.19 | £7.31 | £7.54 | £7.77 | £8.08 |
Mode | £6.08 | £6.19 | £6.31 | £6.50 | £6.70 | £7.20 | £7.50 |
Source: Skills for Care workforce estimates 2011/12 to 2017/18