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<p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics
Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Letter
from </strong><strong>John Pullinger</strong><strong>, National Statistician, to The
Lord Green, dated 9 January 2019.</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Green,</p><p>As
National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding
to your Parliamentary Question asking what the estimate of the number of workers in
the UK is who are paid more than £21,000 a year <strong>(HL12559).</strong></p><p>The
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings [1] (ASHE), carried out in April each year is
the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. ASHE
is used to produce estimates of the number of employee jobs, which are defined as
those held by employees and not the self-employed. Please note that ASHE is based
on a 1% sample of employee jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn
(PAYE) records. Consequently, individuals with more than one job may appear in the
sample more than once.</p><p>The estimate of employee jobs earning more than £21,000
per year in April 2018 [2] (the latest period for which ASHE estimates are available)
in the UK is 12,826,000. This estimate includes apprentices and is based upon employees
that have been in their current job for at least a year and are on an adult rate of
pay. Yours sincerely, John Pullinger</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/previousReleases"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/previousReleases</a></p><p>[2]
2018 data are provisional.</p>
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