Low Pay

(asked on 12th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many employees, excluding self-employed persons, in the UK, that are (1) male, and (2) female, earn less than the personal tax threshold.


Answered by
Lord Bates Portrait
Lord Bates
This question was answered on 26th June 2018

Estimates of the number of individuals with total employee earnings less than the Income Tax Personal Allowance across all of their jobs are shown in the table below. The table relates to the 2016-17 tax year when the Personal Allowance was £11,000.

The figures are for people employed and taxed through Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Income Tax. Individuals included in the table may have had more than one job in the year, and their total earnt income from all PAYE employment was below the Personal Allowance.

Individuals with total employee earnings less than the Income Tax Personal Allowance from all jobs, 2016-17 tax year (millions)

Male

4.72

Female

6.28

All

11.00

Notes

Based on Pay As You Earn data. The earnings definition used is the same as used in the publication, UK Real Time Information, Experimental Statistics. See:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-real-time-information-experimental-statistics

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