"Figure 4a: Private sector employees in all occupation groups in the knowledge-intensive industries have positive earnings premiums over their counterparts in the public sector","" "Private and public sector average percentage differences in mean hourly earnings by occupational and skill groups, UK, 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Bars show percentage by which public sector earnings are higher or lower than private sector earnings. Negative values show how much the private sector earns more than the public sector. 2. Data for 2019 are provisional. 3. Results include all observations." "Unit","%" "","" "","Primary Industries","Manufacturing","Construction","Less Knowledge Intensive Services","Knowledge Intensive Services" "Upper","-5.9","0.0","5.2","13.0","-18.1" "Upper Middle","-8.3","0.0","0.9","6.9","-28.9" "Lower Middle","-4.7","0.0","-11.3","8.7","-23.8" "Lower","5.6","0.0","-5.3","6.9","-9.1"