Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 159: To ask the Taoiseach the average industrial wage for persons in the State for each of the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010 with a breakdown for each year for male and female employees in tabular form. [32265/10]

John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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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.