1. 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
2. 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
3. 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-time
workers
Female full-time
workers
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
4. 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 and
Hove
South East Great Britain
Percentages
Managers, directors,
professional
Administrative,
secretarial, skilled
trades
Caring, leisure, sales,
customer services,
other services
Machine operators,
elementary occupations
Brighton has a significantly higher proportion of managers
and professionals compared to the rest of the UK
5. Employee jobs (Yr 2008)
3% 3%
24%
5%
27%
31%
7%
Brighton and Hove
Manufacturing
Construction
Distribution, hotels &
restaurants
Transport &
communications
Finance, IT, other
business activities
Public admin,
education & health
Other 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
6. Employee jobs – full time and part-time (Yr 2008)
64.6 69 68.8
35.4 31 31.2
Brighton and
Hove
South East Great Britain
Percentages
Full-time Part-time
The Annual Business
Inquiry defines part-
time employees as
those working for 30 or
fewer hours per week.
7. 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 and
Hove
South East Great Britain
Percentages%
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.
8. 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
9. Slideshow by Gavin Barker
http://compasstraining.org/
KEY SOURCES
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NOMIS website