Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the level of household median net earnings after the deduction of income tax and national insurance contributions and before benefits was for (a) all working-age adults, (b) working-age adults without children and (c) working-age adults with children (i) including individuals in households without household earnings and (ii) excluding individuals in households without household earnings in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Table 1: Median weekly household net earnings – including households without earnings, UK 2013/14

Table 2: Median weekly household net earnings – excluding households without earnings, UK 2013/14

Source: Family Resources Survey, 2013/14

Notes:

1. Net earnings are defined as earnings from employment and self-employment, after the deduction of income tax and national insurance contributions but before deductions such as pension contributions, trade union fees etc..
2. Median calculations in Table 2 exclude those households with zero or negative net earnings (i.e. excludes those with losses from self-employment).
3. The Family Resources Survey is a nationally representative sample of UK households.
4. The figures from the Family Resources Survey are based on a sample of households which have been adjusted for non-response using multi-purpose grossing factors which align the Family Resources Survey to former Government Office Region population by age and sex. Estimates based on survey data are subject to uncertainty due to sampling error and remaining non-response error.
5. Data are rounded to the nearest whole pound.