Best and worst paid jobs: how does your hourly rate compare?
Pilots and brokers among the highest earners, while bar staff and theme park attendants at the bottom
The highest-earning ten per cent of full-time employees took home around three and a half times as much money as the lowest ten per cent each week in the last financial year.
Pilots, brokers and chief executives were among the top earners, while bar staff, waiters and theme park attendants were among the lowest, according to the latest official figures from the Office for National Statistics.
The top ten per cent of top earners took home an average £1,024 a week, while those at the bottom of the earnings table were paid less than £288.
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Here are some of the best and worst paid jobs by mean average hourly rate:
Overall, weekly pay for full-time workers increased by just £1 in a year, the smallest rise since 1997, said the ONS.
Before the economic downturn, pay increased by around four per cent each year up until 2008, when it slowed to an annual average of 1.4 per cent between 2009 and 2014.
Men earned a mean average of £2.90 more than women every hour, with some of the biggest gaps in hourly rates in chief executive roles, finance, health professions and for barristers and judges.
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