The weekly earnings for full-time employees in April 2013 were £517, up 2.2 per cent from £506 in 2012. For men full-time earnings were £556 per week, up 1.8 per cent and for women £459, up 2.2 per cent.
10 per cent of full-time employees earned less than £7.28 per hour (excluding overtime), an increase of 1.5 per cent compared with the previous year.
In April 2013 the median full-time salaries was up 2.7 per cent to £27,000, whilst median gross weekly earnings were highest in London, at £658, and lowest in Northern Ireland, at £460.