Characteristics of homeworkers, Great Britain: September 2022 to January 2023

14th February 2023

Early estimates for January 2023 indicate that the number of payrolled employees rose by 2.6% compared with January 2022, a rise of 768,000 employees; the number of payrolled employees was up by 3.5% since February 2020, a rise of 1,028,000.

Payrolled employment increased by 102,000 employees (0.3%) in January 2023 when compared with December 2022, though this should be treated as a provisional estimate and is likely to be revised when more data are received next month.

UK payrolled employee growth for December 2022 compared with November 2022 has been revised from an increase of 28,000 reported in the last bulletin to an increase of 47,000 because of the incorporation of additional real time information (RTI) submissions into the statistics, which takes place every publication and reduces the need for imputation.

Early estimates for January 2023 indicate that median monthly pay increased by 6.8% compared with January 2022, and increased by 17.6% when compared with February 2020.

All age groups saw an increase in payrolled employees between January 2022 and January 2023; there was an increase of 107,000 payrolled employees aged under 25 years.

For Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) 3 regions, annual growth in payrolled employees in January 2023 was the highest in Brent, with a rise of 6.4%, and was lowest in East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh and Lomond, with a rise of 0.8%.

The increase in payrolled employees between January 2022 and January 2023 was largest in the health and social work sector (a rise of 143,000 employees) and smallest in the wholesale and retail sector (a fall of 11,000).

This month, NUTS1 regions are further broken down by sectors in the supporting datasets for this bulletin; some sectors show similar growth rates to the region level, while others, such as accommodation and food service activities and transportation and storage, show moderate regional variation.

Annual growth in median pay for employees in January 2023 was highest in the finance and insurance sector (an increase of 9.4%) and lowest in the public administration sector (an increase of 3.6%).

Payrolled employees
Early estimates for January 2023 indicate that there were 30 million payrolled employees (Figure 1), a rise of 2.6% compared with the same period of the previous year. This means a rise of 768,000 people over the 12-month period. Compared with the previous month, the number of payrolled employees increased by 0.3% in January 2023, which is equivalent to 102,000 people.

Pay distribution
In the three months to December 2022, the 10th percentile of the monthly pay distribution was £712, the 90th percentile was £5,151, and the 99th percentile was £14,557 (Figure 5). This means that:

10% of payrolled employees earned equal to or less than £712 per month

90% of payrolled employees earned equal to or less than £5,151 per month

99% of payrolled employees earned equal to or less than £14,557 per month

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