FOI/2022/4377
You asked
Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), please provide me with copies of the following:
- All documents / statistics / studies / reports on the salaries that employees working as Administrative Assistants, Secretaries, Executive Assistants or Personal Assistants in the private and public sectors received in the last 2 years.\
- All documents / statistics / studies / reports on the increase of salaries that the above-mentioned employees received in the past 2 years.
I understand that some parts of the request may be easier to answer than others. Should this be the case, I request that you release information as soon as possible.
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. 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. ASHE does not cover the self-employed or employees not paid during the reference period. ASHE information relates to gross pay before tax, National Insurance or other deductions, and excludes payments in kind.
We publish annual pay by occupation for 4-digit SOC, in ASHE table 14.7a on our website:
This data is not held specifically by public / private sectors but some of the 4-digit occupation codes provide some distinction on public and private sector roles, however these are limited.
Data is held from 1997 to 2021, the data set for 2022 is not yet held but the publication will be updated when the data has been collected and processed. Please see our Release Calendar for updates.