Brighton and Hove

Labour Market Profile

Brighton and Hove South East Great Britain

258,800 8,523,100 60,462,600

Population in Yr 2010

Source: unless otherwise stated, the data is based on the NOMIS profile for Brighton & Hove

This presentation looks at

Earnings by residence Brighton vs South East vs Great Britain (Year 2011)

Employment by occupation

Employee jobs (Year 2008)

Employment and Unemployment Jul 2010 to June 2011 (% for ages 16 to 64)

Qualifications

Earnings by residence (2011)

£548.80 £607.40

£541.70 £486.50 £474.30 £446.30

Brighton and Hove South East Great Britain

Gross weekly pay

Male full-timeworkers

Female full-timeworkers

Median earnings in pounds for employees living in the area.

£9.33 per hour – the hourly wage required by a lone parent with one child to achieve the Minimum Income Standard

£6.08 per hour: National Minimum Wage for workers over 21 years of age

£7.63 per hour: the amount needed by a single adult working full time in order to meet the Minimum income standard

Female full time workers earn significantly less

across all regions

However the gap is less in Brighton and

Hove

Employment by occupation

13.3 14.2 17.5

16 16.6 17.3

16.9 21.6

22

53.8 47.5 43.2

Brighton andHove

South East Great Britain

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Managers, directors,professional

Administrative,secretarial, skilledtradesCaring, leisure, sales,customer services,other servicesMachine operators,elementary occupations

Brighton has a significantly higher proportion of managers and professionals compared to the rest of the UK

Employee jobs (Yr 2008)

3% 3%

24%

5%

27%

31%

7%

Brighton and Hove Manufacturing

Construction

Distribution, hotels &restaurantsTransport &communicationsFinance, IT, otherbusiness activitiesPublic admin,education & healthOther services

8%

5%

25%

6% 24%

26%

6%

South East

10%

5%

24%

6% 22%

28%

5%

Great Britain

Notes The information comes from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) - an employer survey conducted in December of each year. The survey samples around 78,000 businesses. The ABI records a job at the location of an employee's workplace (rather than at the location of the business's main office).

Public administration, education and health provided the largest number of employee jobs for Brighton

Employee jobs – full time and part-time (Yr 2008)

64.6 69 68.8

35.4 31 31.2

Brighton andHove

South East Great Britain

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Full-time Part-time

The Annual Business Inquiry defines part-time employees as those working for 30 or fewer hours per week.

Employment and Unemployment Jul 2010 to June 2011 (% for ages 16 to 64)

58.1 63.9 60.7

11.5 10.4

9.1

7.6 5.9

7.7

Brighton andHove

South East Great Britain

Per

cen

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s %

Unemployed (model-based)

Self employed

Employees

Model-based unemployed estimates are used to overcome the unreliability of very small samples used as part of the Annual Population Survey for unitary authorities and local authority districts. Unemployment estimates for counties are direct survey estimates.

Economically active

75% 79.5% 76.2%

Economically active: expressed as a percentage of people aged 16 to 64. They include the employed and unemployed. The unemployed refers to people without a job who were available to start work in the two weeks following their interview and who had either looked for work in the four weeks prior to interview or were waiting to start a job they had already obtained.

Qualifications – percentages are for those aged 16 to 64

6.3

8.5

11.3

45.9

57.6

57.4

47.8

33.9

31.3

No qualifications Below NVQ4 Above NVQ4

Great Britain

South East

Brighton and Hove

NVQ 4 equivalent and above: includes HND, Degree and Higher Degree level qualifications or equivalent No qualifications: no qualifications held

Brighton has a significantly higher proportion of people with NVQ 4 qualifications and above

Slideshow by Gavin Barker

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