"Figure 12: Weekly earnings are consistently higher in ASHE than in RTI for the median and up to the 75th percentile, but are higher in RTI for the 90th, 95th and 99th percentiles","" "Distribution of weekly pay for Real Time Information (RTI) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), UK, not seasonally adjusted, April 2021","" "","" "Notes","1. ASHE estimates for 2021 are provisional. 2. ASHE estimates for 2020 and 2021 relate to the pay period that includes 22 April 2020 and 21 April 2021 respectively, at which time approximately 8.8 million and 3.7 million respective employees were furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). 3. The Xth percentile indicates the value at which X% of the population falls under. For example, the fifth percentile means that 5% of the population earns under this amount and 95% of the population earns above this amount. The median corresponds to the 50th percentile, that is, the value at which half the population falls under." "Unit","£ per week" "","" "Percentile","ASHE","RTI" "10th percentile","171","154" "25th percentile","332","261" "50th percentile","504","447" "75th percentile","756","708" "90th percentile","1054","1084" "95th percentile","1338","1502" "99th percentile","2166","3358"