You asked
The annual salary increase (%) of UK graduates for the last 5 years (2012 to 2016). For example:
2012 - +2 2013 - +1.8%
Please can this reflect different stages of working life. For example:
2012 - Graduate (21 yo) +2.3%, Mid (30yo)+2.3%, Late Mid (40yo) +2.4% Late (50yo) +1% 2013 - Graduate (21 yo) +2 %, Mid (30yo)+2.3%, Late Mid (40yo) +2.1% Late (50yo) +1%
Please can this be broken down by location of place of work in order to differentiate between London and Bath for example.
Please can this be broken down by industry
Please can this be broken down by gender
Please can this be broken down by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
If you are unable to identify graduates please provide this information for all UK employees.
We said
Thank you for your freedom of information request asking for information on the annual salary increase of UK graduates for the last 5 years (2012 to 2016).
Information on annual salary increases of UK graduates can be obtained from the Labour Force Survey datasets. Special extracts and tabulations of data are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to the customer services team of ONS social survey socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk
As this information is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. s.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.
The ‘Graduate Labour Market Statistics’ publication produced by the Department for Business, Energy, Innovation and Skills includes some information on graduate earnings that might be of interest to you. This can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/518654/bis-16-232-graduate-labour-market-statistics-2015.pdf
Information on earnings for all UK employees broken down by place of work, age, gender and occupation can be obtained from our Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). These figures are published on our website at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2016provisionalresults
Another route would be to access the Labour Force Survey datasets at the UK Data Service if you are able to run your own analysis
UK Data Service
If you are able to do your own cross-tabulations you can access anonymised Labour Force Survey (LFS) datasets from the UK Data Service. Details of how to access the data can be found here - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access.aspx
Data can be downloaded free of charge for non-commercial purposes but if charges are applicable, you will be notified during the ordering process.
Advice for commercial users - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/registration.aspx#/tab-commercial-users
Charges - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/charges.aspx
List of LFS datasets at the UK Data Service - http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/?q=labour+force+survey