Low-paid residents by region

The proportion of London’s workers paid less than £7.50 per hour, by gender and status

What does this graph show?

Nowhere else in England has a lower proportion of low- paid employees than London. Between 5% and 10% of men and women in full-time employment in both Inner and Outer London earn less than £7.50 per hour.

For men, this proportion is around half that in most of the regions in the North and Midlands. For women, it is around one third.

One notable point about low pay in London is the lack of difference between men and women in full-time employment. The proportion of women working full-time who are paid less than £7.50 is greater than that of men in all other regions, sometimes by a substantial margin. In London there is no such gap.

Among part-time employees resident in London, the proportion paid less than £7.50 an hour is also lower than in other regions, and in the case of Outer London, substantially so. However, at about 40% in Inner London and 305 in Outer London, it is still much higher than the proportion for full-time employees.

Additional Information

One important aspect of low pay is how it varies by age. Young people, both in London and across the country, are far more likely to be low paid than older employees. The proportion of 18–21 year olds working full-time in London who are low-paid is four times higher than the proportion of 21–29 year olds who are, in turn, twice as likely to be low-paid as other full-time employees.

Data used

Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2008

The sample size is too small to split part-time employees by gender and region.

Indicator last updated: 11 October 2010

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• Income inequality in London compared with other English regions
• Income inequalities within London boroughs
• Pay inequalities within London
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• Working-age adults lacking work by borough
• Adult ill health
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• Low-paid residents by borough
• Low-paid jobs by borough
• Low income and ethnicity in London
• Lacking work by ethnicity
• Not working by country of birth
• Not working by ethnicity and country of birth
• Low pay by ethnicity
• Premature death by borough
• Low-paid jobs by sub-region
• Families receiving in-work benefits
• Working age out-of-work benefits by borough
• Unemployment rates over time
• Unemployment numbers by sub-region
• Unemployment by ethnicity, country of birth and gender
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• Part-time work
• Job Seeker's Allowance by region
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• Child, adult and pensioner poverty
• London's low income population
• Child and adult poverty and work
• Recession impact on out-of-work benefits
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