PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Care Workers: Pay (2 July 2018)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the (a) mean average hourly pay (b) median average hourly pay and (c) most common rate of hourly pay for social care workers in each year from 2010 to 2018.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

Answer

Skills for Care collects data on adult social care workers in England through their National Minimum Wage data set.

The following table details the trends in care worker hourly pay for the independent sector from 2011 to 2018.

October 2011-September 2012

October 2012-September 2013

October 2013-September 2014

October 2014-September 2015

October 2015-September 2016

October 2016-September 2017

October 2017-September 2018

Median

£7.45

£7.60

£7.69

£8.00

£8.00

£8.30

£8.55

Mean

£6.99

£7.11

£7.19

£7.31

£7.54

£7.77

£8.08

Mode

£6.08

£6.19

£6.31

£6.50

£6.70

£7.20

£7.50

Source: Skills for Care workforce estimates 2011/12 to 2017/18


Answered by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
5 July 2018

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