Average weekly earnings for residents in West Sussex
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is a UK-wide survey that provides information on hourly, weekly and annual earnings by gender and work patterns, and at national and regional level geographies on industry and occupation, including public versus private sector pay comparisons. The annual series dates back to 2002, though there have been some methodological changes over this time. The data is generally available at local authority level, though in some cases due to sampling issues the data can be suppressed for particular variables.
November 2020 Performance
The latest Annual Survey of Hours
and Earnings (ASHE) was released by ONS in November 2020; it is a survey
conducted in April each year to obtain information around earnings of employees
who are living in an area or who are working in an area. The latest survey covers the period that
includes the 22nd April 2020 at which time approximately 8.8.
million employees were furloughed nationally under the Coronavirus Job
Retention Scheme (CJRS). The estimates
in the data include furloughed employees and are based on actual payments made
to the employee from company payrolls and the hours on which this pay was calculated,
which in the case of furloughed employees are their usual hours.
In West Sussex, average gross weekly earnings for residents working full-time is £575.40, a fall by 4.7% from the previous year. The fall in earnings levels at national and regional geographies are lower at (-0.4%) and (-0.7%) than that in West Sussex. West Sussex’s position compared with statistical neighbours has fallen and the county now lies in the top 50% rather than the highest 75%.
Whilst at county level earnings levels for residents are around the same as for those working in West Sussex, in most districts earnings levels of residents continue to be higher than the average earnings levels of people working in the county. The exception continues to be in Crawley where weekly earnings levels for people working in Crawley are higher than the regional and national average, and this is also the trend in 2020 in Worthing.
Average gross weekly earnings of full-time workers (Workplace) in West Sussex, is £574.90, an increase of 1.1% from the previous year, greater than national (-0.39%) and regional (-0.88%).
