History of average salaries?

[Emu2005]

Hi, I'm trying to find a list of the average salary in the UK since about 1950 but I just can't seem to find this information anywhere on the internet. I spent about 2 hours last night googling different phrases but I just could not find anything, surely this information must be held somewhere?! If anyone can point me in the right direction of where this information might be that would be great :-)

[bednobs]

http://uk.answers.yah...20100315071014AA4sFWm
does this help?

[ABerrant]

This is the realm of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and may require a bit of digging to extract figures covering an appreciable time period.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp

I query the accuracy of the figures within the link kindly supplied by bednobs since the ONS figure for UK Average Full-Time Earnings in 2009 is around £30,500 compared to the indicated £37,500, but bear in mind that statistics themselves cannot ever really be described as "accurate".

[factor-fiction]

Thanks for the link, ABerrant. It's an interesting site.
Please could you point me to where you got the figure from of around £30,500 for Average Full-Time Earnings in 2009? I may be misreading it but I read it as £451 pw (£23450 pa) for the whole economy, although maybe that includes part timers as well as full timers.

[ABerrant]

From the ONS 2009 ASHE - Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings...

Weekly pay - Gross - For full-time employee jobs: United Kingdom, 2009
Mean = £587.30 (~£30,540) ... Median = £488.70 (~£25,400)

Weekly pay - Gross - For all employee jobs: United Kingdom, 2009
Mean = £480.90 (~£25,000) ... Median = £397.30 (~£20,660)

or you can use

Annual pay - Gross - For full-time employee jobs: United Kingdom, 2009
Mean = £31,916 ... Median = £25,816

Annual pay - Gross - For all employee jobs: United Kingdom, 2009
Mean = £21,320 ... Median = £26,470

http://www.statistics...roduct.asp?vlnk=13101

So we can take our pick of these myriad estimates.

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Further to the original question, the LibDems published figures in late 2007 for real term comparison of pension payments against gross average full-time earnings, from which typical levels of earnings can be gleaned for the period 1950 onwards...

http://www.thisismone...d=427290&in_page_id=6

[Emu2005]

thanks everyone for the links, that last one especially is quite useful

thanks :-)