The Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) is the official source of short term earnings data. Through this survey data is only collected at the level of the enterprise (i.e. each enterprise makes one return indicating overall earnings, numbers of employees and hours worked for the enterprise as a whole) so estimates cannot be broken down by gender. The latest published data is for the first quarter of 2010.
Table 1 below presents the overall annual average earnings of production, transport and other manual workers in the industrial sector for each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009. As the level of earnings will vary across the year a meaningful annual average cannot at this stage be estimated for 2010. For an indication of the latest trend table 2 shows average weekly earnings for this group of workers in the first quarter of each year from 2007 to 2010.
Table 1: Annual Average Industrial Earnings 2007-2009
NACE Industry B-E
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Production, transport and other manual workers
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Year
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€
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2007
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32,730
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2008
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34,720
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2009*
|
33,865
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*Preliminary Estimate.
Table 2: Average Weekly Industrial Earnings, Quarter 1 2007- Quarter 1 2010
NACE Industry B-E
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Production, transport and other manual workers
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Quarter
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€
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Q1 2007
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606.39
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Q1 2008
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632.47
|
Q1 2009
|
620.35
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Q1 2010*
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619.29
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*Preliminary Estimate.