The Local Government Earnings Survey 2010/11 provides paybill and average pay rate information for all local government employees (excluding teachers and chief officers). It achieved a response rate of 198 of the 375 local authorities in England and Wales (53 per cent).
The survey collects line records of local government posts and the results presented below are based on over 1,000,000 local government posts. This not only improves the quality of the data but enables us to produce robust estimates of pay by occupational groups.
The data were weighted and grossed to take into account non-response by region and within LA type.
Key findings
The basic local government paybill in England and Wales (excluding teachers and chief officers) is £24.5 billion for the financial year 2010/11.
The total gross paybill, which comprises the basic paybill plus all additional pay elements (which, for example, includes overtime, shift premium pay, bonus and incentive payments) is £25.7 billion.
The total gross paybill rose by 1.24 per cent (from £25.4 billion in 2008/09); a real terms fall of 5.36 per cent taking account of inflation.
Outputs
The latest published outputs from the Local Government Earnings Survey 2010/11 can be found below:
A summary report of the outputs from the Earnings Survey 2010/11. This includes key findings and summary data on paybill and pay rates.
This provides a breakdown of grossed paybill and pay rates by region, authority type, gender and full-time/part-time working.
This provides a detailed breakdown of observed occupational pay rates by region and type of authority. Please note that all occupational data presented here is representative of the outputs of our coding process and is intended only is indicative of pay rates. The FTE and post-count levels contained within are intended as base rates only and are not exhaustive.
This provides a detailed demographic breakdown of each respondent authority's workforce and allows comparison with region and type of authority.
This provides the distribution of the local government workforce by LGS spinal column point (or equivalent salary band) for the year 2010/11.
Contact:
Ben Hickman
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