Area type
Non-metropolitan District
Population
66,726
Average male salary
£44,094
Average female salary
£31,434
Average male hours worked
38
Average female hours worked
37
Number of jobs
20,000
Job density
0.5
Gender pay gap
38.4%
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The average salary in Barrow-in-Furness is £40,417, according to figures published by the ONS for 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, average salaries grew by £2,205. Compare average salaries by area.
Barrow-in-Furness's salary growth rate is 5.77% per year based on changes in average salary between 2020 and 2021, which is 2.6% higher than the average salary growth rate in Barrow-in-Furness over the past 9 years.
The average weekly hours worked in Barrow-in-Furness is currently 37.5 hours. The average male works 38 hours per week and the average female works 37.0 hours per week - a 0.5-hour difference.
There are 20,000 jobs in Barrow-in-Furness which has a working-age (aged 16-65) population of 40,678, according to figures published by the ONS for 2019. The 2019 job density in Barrow-in-Furness is 0.5, meaning there are 0.5 jobs per member of the Barrow-in-Furness working-age population.
Salaries are mean averages of annual gross pay for full-time employees. Hours worked are mean averages of weekly hours worked by full-time employees
According to the figures published by the ONS for 2021, female wages in Barrow-in-Furness average £31,434, and male wages averaged £44,094. Statistically, the average female earns £12,660 less than the average male, though this does not account for differences in hours worked.
Over the past 9 years, female and male salaries have average annual growth rates of 2.8% and 2.7% respectively.
Males on average make 40.3% more than females in Barrow-in-Furness, though this does not account for differences in hours worked. After adjusting for the difference in hours worked, the gender pay gap in Barrow-in-Furness is 38.4% - males in Barrow-in-Furness earn 38.4% more per hour than females on average.
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The bottom 10% (percentile 1) of earners in Barrow-in-Furness earn an average income of £18,666 and work 35 hours per week on average. That's -£18,666 less per year than the top 10%, and -35 hours less per week.
percentile | Female Hours | Male Hours | Female Salary | Male Salary |
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| 10th | 35.5 | |||
| 20th | 34.6 | 37.0 | £23,154 | |
| 25th | 35.0 | 37.0 | £20,857 | £29,151 |
| 30th | 35.7 | 37.0 | £26,629 | £32,624 |
| 40th | 37.0 | 37.1 | £28,478 | £35,373 |
Salaries are mean averages of gross annual pay for full-time employees in Barrow-in-Furness, reported by the ONS for 2020.
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Salaries are mean averages of gross annual pay for full-time employees in Barrow-in-Furness, reported by the ONS for 2020.
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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. Data sources: ONS Local statistics