| 21 years experience dealinf with salaries and wagese |
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| Because they are national figures and they should really be by area as different areas have different averages |
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| Big earners are down south |
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| Did not believe the figures |
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| Dont take into account the different amounts of tax and NI payments people have to make |
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| From own knowledge of friends' and families' salaries. is lower than what they say the average is |
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| Higher earners are included with lower earners, does not give a balanced view of earnings |
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| I believe it |
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| I dont have enough knowledge of the big picture |
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| I feel whats published is way out, about o100 above reality |
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| Just what they say on t.v. /employers will say if staff are not happy with job wages they can go elsewhere |
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| Lot of companies are not prepared to pay |
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| Lot of people now on minimum wage now distorts figures. Also thinks figures are above what is actually being earned generally. |
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| National average earnings a lot less than inflation - fixed by government. National min. wage brought in to reduce govt outgoings |
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| Not 100% sure on method of collection but figures don't seem to be right. |
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| Not comparing like with like i.e. Men & woman |
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| Not forward looking and not taking account seasonal pay rounds |
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| People can earn more than what they say - emphasis is on lowest paid not the centre or highest paid |
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| People earn different amounts each month or each week depending on the amount of overtime that's there for them. |
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| Personal experience |
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| Rates of interest effect the figures and not adjusted on a timely basis. |
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| Some earning more and some earning less-unfair that flattened average wage doesn't take into account of the large numbers on small wages versus the few on very high wages-the average is not balanced. |
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| Sometimes they seem to be correct and sometimes wildly inaccurate - not deliberately misleading |
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| Taking higher paid into account as well as those on low pay - distorts |
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| Taking too many top execs salaries into account- unbalances and unfair to low paid |
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| There are differences between places like London and Manchester, where there are different prices in different regions. |
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| There are no comparisons any more. My neighbour earns 1000 pounds per week another earns 150 pounds.rns |
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| a lot of people dont come into it |
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| always higher than most people I know earn |
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| average does not give true picture |
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| average doesn't reflect reality |
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| average earnings can be boosted be people on ridciulously high earnings |
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| average earnings not really a meaningfull amount. |
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| averages dont work in this instance |
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| because i do not believe they do a broard enough range |
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| because its average somebody could be earning really hihh |
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| because of recent publicity about figures |
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| because ofwhat'shappened overlast 6months |
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| because there's lot of them fiddling the bloody dole office! |
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| because they are no as sensitive as they could be |
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| because they give the figures for the higher earners |
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| because unemployment is high here and wages are low |
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| because vast sums earned by some and who have own 70% and small income earned by many especally the young people |
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| because we think we are average but it doensnt seem to be what the govt says is average |
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| depends on how they select |
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| depends on which industry where located and age of persons |
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| depends which part of the country you are in |
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| do not understand how they get the figures of what the average family is eanring |
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| does not konw anyone locally whose waeg equals the wage figure given |
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| doesn't reflect the vast differences in the basic wages |
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| done as a country as a whol and not area by area |
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| dont include basic grades |
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| dont reflect ave person |
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| dont think they include certain jobs and workers e.g. part time |
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| earnings vary so much in different areas of uk that average earnings means little |
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| eg Govt says nurses pay improved today's papers reprot they are o50 worse off. |
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| go by whats happening in london not manchester |
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| government tells you a figure and I do not know people on that |
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| great barrier between north and south / |
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| high earners distorts the figures to be higher than they really are |
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| high wage earners biase results |
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| i look at what i earn and what others earn and base it on that |
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| i suppose we get a good idea from the figures |
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| i think its over a lot of peoples heads, a lot of people dont understand average earnings |
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| if you are on the top of the scale or the bottom the middle figure is misleading |
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| impossible to produce figures that cover everything |
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| interpretation |
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| it's impossible to create 'average' earnings, the figures don't specify average for whom? It is not possible to calculate for across the board |
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| knowledge of people you know adn what they earn |
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| less politically sensitive |
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| locol wage about 100o/wk |
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| more work money/etc below watford gap/relatives in s/east |
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| most of the people i know earn less than the average |
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| most people earn less than the average.Figures are skewed by small number of high earners |
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| need to have some figures to work with |
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| never used them |
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| no such thing as average earnings, they vary from industry to industry |
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| not a good guide as other taxes etc gone up. |
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| not always accurate |
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| not applicable to an average individual |
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| not correct |
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| not correct for scotland |
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| not everything taken into account such as free accomodation |
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| not high enough |
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| not sure that they're realistic |
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| not typical in my experience |
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| nothing further to say |
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| only giving what happens in london |
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| overall averages are not meaningful 'cos of lge variations in pay and costs in difft areas |
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| people are not honest about earnings |
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| people are not honest about what they earn |
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| people dont always give the truth |
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| people dont give the right info |
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| people in different walks of life.people who are labouring and people in engineering it is not a fair comparison |
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| politicians only give you what they want |
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| probably what they say is the average earning, is not what most pepole receive |
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| regional figs correct, national misleading |
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| regional inaccuracies |
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| see a lot of people, young people, qualified but without jobs. |
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| some earnings are undeclared |
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| some of the labouring people and unskilled earn much less |
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| some people earn a huge amount of money and so this affects the average wage |
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| some people get more and some get less so theyre average figures |
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| there are people at one end of the scale and people with much higher earnings at the other, which makes the average look high |
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| there are some poor people who do not get enough to live on |
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| there's more lower paid than higher paid |
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| they are taken as an average throughout the whole of the country |
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| they take into aqccount too much of the high level salaries which incleases the figure |
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| think gvy only takes middle of the road people |
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| think there are more on the lower end of the scale than the government make out |
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| this is human beings are like so figures will se like that too |
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| thousands on low wages in this area |
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| too general / need to have avertage for ech type of occupation |
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| too general and non specific |
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| try to say min wage will create unemployment avergae man not paid what he is worth |
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| unseen workforce |
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| wages vary throughout uk and therefore no average figure |
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| what other people have said about them |
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| what people get is rediculous |
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| when it says that a man gets over o300 a week, it's not true here |
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| when you look in the papers and see average very few people are on the average it disguises the poverty at the bottom |
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| yes, well, you know we belong to all works of life and listening to what they say and you get a different picture from the figures published |
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