Wage Levels

The following table is data for wage levels of people living in Glasgow.

	2011	2012	2011-12
25 percentile	£17,879	£17,994	0.6%
Median	£24,447	£24,447	0.0%
75 percentile	£34,190	£33,988	-0.6%

Remarkably, the median annual wage level in Glasgow remained the same between 2011 and 2012.  The data is provided as a list ranked by amount; and the median is the value exactly in the middle of the ranking.  The value for the 25 percentile and 75 percentile has also been given, showing amounts for (relatively) low pay and (relatively) high pay respectively.

For people working in Glasgow, regardless of where they live, the details are as follows.

	2011	2012	2011-12
25 percentile	£18,153	£19,324	6.5%
Median	£25,269	£26,201	3.7%
75 percentile	£35,264	£36,359	3.1%

Commuting patterns explain the difference between residence-based and workplace-based income levels, and this has been a long standing feature of the labour market in and around Glasgow.  Less clear is the explanation why workplace-based income rates increased between 2011 and 2012, while the residence-based rates remained the same.

Employment Data

For the year to December 2012, the employment rate in Glasgow stood at 58.6%, based on 246,500 persons employed out of a working age population of  420,300.  As well as being a fall from the previous year's rate of 62.4%, this is the first time since the current dataset began in 2004 that the rate has fallen below 60%.  For comparison, the Scottish rate was 69.5%.  In Glasgow the number employed fell by 15,800 over the year.

The fall in employment has not been matched by an increase in unemployment, but by an increase in inactivity, which increased by 18,900 over the year.  The concerning aspect of this is that it could reflect a perception that there is a lack of jobs in the city.

Perhaps too much can be read from one set of figures.  Confirmation that this is a trend can come from the next set of employment data, to be released in July 2013.

Economy Snapshot

This is an overview of the economies in Glasgow and Scotland.

Labour Market Details

Try this link to get the latest labour market details for Glasgow.