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LFS National Minimum Wage Estimates

Quarter 4 2019

Indicator	Q4 2018	Q4 2019	Annual change	Annual change (%)
Employees reporting earning less than National Minimum Wage	24,500	21,900	-2,600	-10.6
Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage	112,700	100,800	-11,900	-10.6
Total employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	137,200	122,800	-14,400	-10.5
Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,679,600	1,787,400	107,800	6.4
Not stated	133,300	107,800	-25,500	-19.1
Total employees	1,950,100	2,018,100	67,900	3.5

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less (%)¹	7.6	6.4	-	-
¹ Note: Denominator excludes employees whose National Minimum Wage status was Not stated

6.4% of employees earned the National Minimum Wage or less in Q4 2019

Figure 1 Share of employees by NMW status (excluding not stated) Q4 2019

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In Quarter 4 (Q4) 2019, 6.4% of employees for whom earnings data was reported, earned the National Minimum Wage (NMW) or less. This was down from 7.6% in Q4 2018. See table 1b.

The number of employees who self-reported earning less than the NMW in Q4 2019 was 21,900 and this was down by 2,600 (-10.6%) from Q4 2018. The number of employees who self-reported earnings equal to the NMW was 100,800 and this was down 11,900 (-10.6%) from a year earlier. In total therefore, 122,800 employees self-reported that they earned the NMW or less in Q4 2019 and this was down 14,400 (-10.5%) from Q4 2018. See tables 1a and 1b.

The proportion of employees who reported earning more than the NMW was 93.6%, up from 92.4% a year earlier. See table 1a and 1b and figure 1.

This release presents results based on questions relating to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) included in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) from Q2 2016.

The LFS is not designed to be an earnings survey; rather it is the official source of employment and unemployment statistics in Ireland and is conducted across a representative sample of households throughout the country. Therefore, the earnings data in this release is based on each respondent self-reporting their income and as a result some caution is urged in the interpretation of this data. In addition, as the data presented in the release is collected directly from individual respondents, caution is urged in comparing these results to data collected directly from business enterprises.

As a number of respondents did not report their status with regard to the NMW, these respondents are identified as ‘Not stated’ in the relevant data tables and are excluded from the denominator in calculating the share or proportion of all respondents on the NMW.

Females more likely than males to earn NMW or less

The results show that females are more likely than males to earn the NMW or less and this has been a consistent feature of the series since it began in Q2 2016. Of the 122,800 employees who reported earning the NMW or less in Q4 2019, 66,600 or 54.2% were female while 56,200 or 45.8% were male. This compares to an overall even split of all employees in the State of 50.0% each for males and females. The greater share (9,300 or 64.6%) of the fall of 14,400 in the number of persons who reported earning the NMW or less in the year to Q4 2019 was accounted for by females. See tables 3a and 3b.

In total, 5.9% of all male employees in the State earned the NMW or less in Q4 2019 and the corresponding figure for females was 7.0%. See tables 3a and 3b and figure 2.

Majority earning NMW or less were employed in the Services Sector

In Q4 2019, the Services sectors accounted for more than four out of five (86.1%) of all employees who reported earning the NMW or less, which continued a similar trend from earlier periods. Specifically, the Accommodation and food services activities sector accounted for 30.0% of all employees who reported earning the NMW or less while the Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles sector accounted for 28.7%. By comparison, the Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles sector accounted for 13.4% of all employees in the State while the Accommodation and food services sector accounted for 7.9%. See table 4b and figure 3.

	%
Male	45.8
Female	54.2

NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector	Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	Share of total employees
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing	3.4	1.5
B-F Industry	10	18.6
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	28.7	13.4
I Accommodation and food service activities	30	7.9
N Administrative and support service activities	4.4	4.4
Q Human health and social work activities	6.9	13.9
R-U Other NACE activities	8.6	4

Elementary and Sales and customer service occupations more likely to earn NMW or less

The greater incidence of employees earning the NMW or less in Q4 2019 was in the Elementary and Sales and customer service occupation groups. Elementary occupations accounted for 35.4% of all employees earning the NMW or less while the share for those in the Sales and customer service group was 26.2%. See table 5b.

Within both groups, 19.8% of all employees in the Elementary occupation group reported earning the NMW or less while 18.6% of all employees in the Sales and customer service occupation group reported earning the NMW or less. See table 5b.

Overall, these groups combined accounted for 20.5% of all employees in the State. See table 5b.

Highest share of employees earning the NMW or less was in the 15-24 years age group

The highest share of employees earning the NMW or less (54.7%) was in the 15-24 years age group and this was up from 50.0% a year earlier. This age cohort represented 12.0% of all employees in the State in Q4 2019. Persons aged 25-34 accounted for 18.0% of those employees earning the NMW or less while representing 23.1% of all employees. Persons aged 35-44 accounted for 10.9% of all employees on the NMW or less while representing 28.4% of all employees. Finally, those persons aged 45-54 accounted for 9.7% of all employees who reported earning the NMW or less while representing 21.8% of all employees in the State. See table 6b.

In terms of the proportions within age cohorts who reported earning the NMW or less in Q4 2019, nearly three out of ten (29.2%) of all employees in the 15-24 (youths) age group earned the NMW or less and this was down from 32.0% a year earlier. This compares to 5.0% of all employees aged 25-34, 2.5% of those aged 35-44 and 2.9% of those aged 45-54. See table 6b and figure 4.

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Age group	Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	Share of total employees
15-19	24.9	3
20-24	29.8	9.1
Total 15-24 (Youths)	54.7	12
25-34	18	23.1
35-44	10.9	28.4
45-54	9.7	21.8
55-59	3.4	7.8

Persons working less than 30 hours per week accounted for the greater share of employees on NMW or less

In Q4 2019, the greater share (54.9%) of employees earning the NMW or less usually worked less than 30 hours per week compared to 51.6% a year earlier. A further 28.5% of employees earning the NMW or less worked between 35 and 44 hours per week, down from 32.8% in Q4 2018. Those working less than 30 hours per week accounted for 20.7% of all employees, while the share for those working between 35 and 44 hours was 58.9%. See table 8b.

Differences also emerge when one looks at the proportions within the hours worked groups; 33.9% of employees who worked less than 10 hours per week earned the NMW or less and the share for those between 10 and 19 hours was 23.5%. By comparison, the corresponding figure for those working between 20 and 29 hours was 9.8% and just 3.0% for those working between 35 and 39 hours. See table 8b.

Almost six in ten employees earning the NMW or less were part-time

In Q4 2019, almost six in ten persons (59.9%) earning the NMW or less were employed on a part-time basis. This was up from the 58.0% recorded in Q4 2018. In total, part-time employees accounted for just over one fifth (20.3%) of all employees in the State and this was up slightly from the 20.0% recorded a year earlier. Full-time employees accounted for 40.1% of all employees on the NMW or less, down from 42.0% in Q4 2018. Full time employees accounted for 79.7% of all employees in the State. See table 9b.

Just under one fifth (19.0%) of all employees who worked part-time reported that they earned the NMW or less in Q4 2019 while 3.2% of all employees who worked full-time reported that they earned the NMW or less. See table 9b and figure 5.

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	Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	Share of total employees
Full-time	40.1	79.7
Part-time	59.9	20.3

Irish Nationals more likely to earn NMW or less

Within both categories, 6.5% of Irish Nationals earned the NMW or less in Q4 2019 while the corresponding figure for non-Irish Nationals was 5.9%. See table 13b.

In Q4 2019, 83.3% of employees earning the NMW or less were Irish nationals and this was up from 77.3% from a year earlier. The share for non-Irish Nationals, on the other hand, fell from 22.7% to 16.7% over the same period. See table 13b.

In total Irish Nationals accounted for 82.0% of all employees in the State while the figure for non-Irish Nationals was 18.0%. See table 13b.

Employees with Secondary as highest level of education more likely to earn NMW or less

Employees whose highest level of education was Secondary (lower and higher) accounted for 64.9% of all employees who reported earning the NMW or less in Q4 2019. A further 12.2% achieved Post-secondary non-tertiary level while 10.2% had a third level honours degree or above. See table 14b.

Those with Secondary as their highest level of education represented 31.2% of all employees while the figures for Post-secondary non-tertiary and Third level honours degree or above were 13.9% and 39.4% respectively. See table 14b.

In terms of the proportions within the education categories who reported earning the NMW or less in Q4 2019, 14.2% of those whose highest level of education was Lower secondary earned the NMW or less. This compares to 5.7% of all employees in Post-secondary non-tertiary and just 1.7% in Third level honours degree or above. See table 14b and figure 6.

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	Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	Share of total employees
Primary or below	4.7	2.3
Lower secondary	16.4	7.4
Higher secondary	48.5	23.8
Post secondary non-tertiary	12.2	13.9
Third level non-honours degree	6.1	11.1
Third level honours degree or above	10.2	39.4

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Table 1a Employees aged 15 years and over classified by detailed National Minimum Wage earnings status
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Detailed National Minimum Wage earnings status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Employees reporting earning less than National Minimum Wage	24.6	29.8	24.5	29.8	24.4	27.1	21.9
Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage	126.0	122.6	112.7	122.6	108.2	105.1	100.8
Total employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
Total employees	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Detailed National Minimum Wage earnings status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Employees reporting earning less than National Minimum Wage	1.4	1.7	1.3	1.6	1.3	1.4	1.1
Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage	7.2	6.8	6.2	6.7	5.9	5.6	5.3
Total employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	91.4	91.5	92.4	91.6	92.8	93.0	93.6
Total employees	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
¹ Note: Denominator excludes employees whose National Minimum Wage status was Not stated

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Employees reporting earning less than National Minimum Wage by reason why	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
On an age based rate that is aged 19 or younger	:	:	:	:	:	12.3	10.2
Employed by an immediate relative including spouse or siblings or parents or grandparents	:	:	:	:	:	*	*
Participating in an apprentice programme	:	:	:	:	:	[5.8]	[4.7]
Other reason (From Q3 2019)	:	:	:	:	:	[5.4]	[4.4]
A special training rate	[6.6]	[6.9]	[5.9]	[6.5]	[6.7]	:	:
An age-related rate	[5.5]	8.2	[4.9]	7.1	[6.6]	:	:
A first job over 18 rate	*	[4.5]	*	*	*	:	:
Other reason (Before Q3 2019)	8.6	8.5	10.0	11.6	7.8	:	:
Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total	24.6	29.8	24.5	29.8	24.4	27.1	21.9
: Data not available for the period Q4 17 to Q4 19

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%
Employees reporting earning less than National Minimum Wage by reason why	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
On an age based rate that is aged 19 or younger	:	:	:	:	:	45.2	46.6
Employed by an immediate relative including spouse or siblings or parents or grandparents	:	:	:	:	:	*	*
Participating in an apprentice programme	:	:	:	:	:	[21.4]	[21.3]
Other reason (From Q3 2019)	:	:	:	:	:	[19.9]	[20.1]
A special training rate	[26.7]	[23.2]	[24.2]	[21.8]	[27.4]	:	:
An age-related rate	[22.3]	27.5	[19.9]	24.0	[27.0]	:	:
A first job over 18 rate	*	[15.1]	*	*	*	:	:
Other reason (Before Q3 2019)	35.0	28.6	40.8	39.1	32.1	:	:
Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
: Data not available for the period Q4 17 to Q4 19

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Gender/National Minimum Wage earnings status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Male	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	73.3	68.1	61.3	65.3	58.6	62.0	56.2
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	793.5	833.5	846.4	839.2	865.1	889.6	898.6
	Not stated	72.4	78.7	74.1	78.4	70.0	60.1	62.5
	Total	939.1	980.3	981.8	983.0	993.8	1,011.7	1,017.3
Female	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	77.4	84.3	75.9	87.0	74.0	70.2	66.6
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	802.7	815.5	833.2	833.1	848.3	862.5	888.8
	Not stated	63.9	62.7	59.3	63.8	53.4	53.2	45.4
	Total	944.0	962.4	968.4	983.9	975.6	985.9	1,000.8
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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Gender/National Minimum Wage earnings status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by gender
Male	48.6	44.7	44.7	42.9	44.2	46.9	45.8
Female	51.4	55.3	55.3	57.1	55.8	53.1	54.2
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by gender¹
Male	49.6	50.1	50.0	49.6	50.0	50.5	50.0
Female	50.4	49.9	50.0	50.4	50.0	49.5	50.0
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each gender category¹
Male	8.5	7.6	6.8	7.2	6.3	6.5	5.9
Female	8.8	9.4	8.3	9.5	8.0	7.5	7.0
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
¹ Note: Denominator excludes employees whose National Minimum Wage status was Not stated

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Economic sector (NACE Rev.2)/National Minimum Wage status			Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	[7.2]	[5.7]	[4.9]	*	*	[4.2]
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	18.3	17.6	18.5	17.6	18.7	17.3	23.5
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	25.9	27.0	26.9	25.8	25.8	23.9	30.5
B-F	Total Industry	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	21.9	19.2	16.7	18.7	16.2	17.1	12.3
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	303.4	321.9	316.8	321.4	330.2	341.6	342.8
		Not stated	24.2	26.1	25.3	24.8	18.5	18.4	16.5
		Total	349.5	367.2	358.7	364.9	364.9	377.0	371.5
B-E	Industry	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	14.8	13.3	14.0	13.9	9.9	9.7	[6.1]
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	231.4	237.6	232.6	238.9	243.5	255.0	253.2
		Not stated	16.3	16.6	15.4	15.9	10.0	10.9	8.7
		Total	262.5	267.5	261.9	268.7	263.4	275.6	268.0
F	Construction	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[7.1]	[5.9]	*	[4.8]	[6.3]	[7.4]	[6.1]
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	71.9	84.3	84.2	82.5	86.7	86.6	89.6
		Not stated	7.9	9.5	9.9	8.9	8.5	[7.5]	7.8
		Total	87.0	99.7	96.8	96.2	101.5	101.5	103.5
G-U	Total Services	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	124.0	125.9	114.6	128.7	112.2	110.8	105.7
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,270.1	1,305.5	1,340.5	1,329.9	1,361.2	1,389.7	1,417.4
		Not stated	105.7	109.6	103.2	111.3	98.8	90.7	87.1
		Total	1,499.8	1,541.0	1,558.4	1,570.0	1,572.3	1,591.3	1,610.2
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	40.8	38.4	38.7	43.3	35.5	35.4	35.2
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	213.8	210.9	220.8	208.7	213.4	216.0	221.0
		Not stated	19.7	19.7	18.2	21.4	15.1	16.7	18.6
		Total	274.3	268.9	277.7	273.4	264.0	268.1	274.8
H	Transportation and storage	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	[4.9]	[4.4]	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	65.1	72.2	76.2	75.1	78.6	80.0	81.5
		Not stated	*	*	*	6.6	*	*	*
		Total	73.7	80.9	83.9	86.6	86.7	86.4	87.2
I	Accommodation and food service activities	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	43.1	44.4	38.1	40.5	40.2	40.8	36.8
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	98.8	105.1	105.4	102.8	112.8	108.1	113.4
		Not stated	16.2	15.8	14.3	16.3	11.7	12.7	12.1
		Total	158.1	165.3	157.8	159.6	164.7	161.6	162.3
J	Information and communication	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	94.8	101.8	95.5	98.0	98.6	110.6	108.4
		Not stated	*	[5.4]	[5.4]	*	[7.0]	*	*
		Total	101.7	109.2	102.8	104.8	106.7	116.3	112.2
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	91.7	88.6	92.2	99.2	100.5	103.3	102.4
		Not stated	[5.1]	[4.5]	[5.5]	*	*	*	*
		Total	97.3	94.5	98.2	102.5	105.3	106.4	106.3
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	91.8	94.0	95.3	96.9	99.4	93.7	101.1
		Not stated	[5.3]	[5.5]	[4.0]	[5.4]	[4.8]	*	*
		Total	99.6	102.5	102.1	106.3	106.0	99.7	107.4
N	Administrative and support service activities	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[6.5]	[5.8]	[6.7]	[6.5]	[6.5]	[5.1]	[5.3]
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	64.3	76.3	78.5	79.0	76.1	80.8	79.3
		Not stated	8.1	9.1	10.0	10.5	12.5	10.2	10.9
		Total	78.8	91.2	95.2	96.0	95.1	96.1	95.5
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	95.2	95.8	101.5	102.6	104.1	107.3	112.4
		Not stated	[4.6]	[4.7]	[4.5]	[5.0]	[5.3]	[4.9]	*
		Total	100.6	103.1	107.0	109.3	111.0	113.8	115.9
P	Education	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	148.6	154.6	162.3	161.4	160.2	167.0	176.0
		Not stated	7.4	[6.6]	6.8	8.4	[6.8]	[5.4]	[5.3]
		Total	158.0	163.8	170.4	172.2	169.6	174.8	183.0
Q	Human health and social work activities	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	9.7	8.6	[7.1]	9.5	[5.7]	[6.5]	8.4
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	240.6	235.8	247.2	243.8	253.3	257.9	256.3
		Not stated	15.0	20.9	19.6	18.5	15.7	14.4	12.9
		Total	265.2	265.3	273.8	271.8	274.7	278.8	277.7
R-U	Other NACE activities	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	11.8	12.9	12.4	13.1	11.9	11.4	10.6
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	65.5	70.2	65.6	62.6	64.2	65.1	65.7
		Not stated	15.2	13.1	11.4	11.8	12.3	12.7	11.5
		Total	92.4	96.1	89.4	87.5	88.4	89.3	87.8
Not stated		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	7.9	[7.5]	[6.1]	[6.1]	[6.5]	[5.3]	[5.9]
All employees		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
		Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
		Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Economic sector (NACE Rev.2)/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	*	[4.7]	[4.2]	[3.2]	*	*	[3.4]
B-F	Total Industry	14.5	12.6	12.2	12.2	12.2	12.9	10.0
B-E	Industry	9.8	8.7	10.2	9.1	7.4	7.3	[5.0]
F	Construction	[4.7]	[3.9]	*	[3.1]	[4.8]	[5.6]	[5.0]
G-U	Total Services	82.3	82.7	83.5	84.5	84.6	83.8	86.1
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	27.1	25.2	28.2	28.4	26.8	26.8	28.7
H	Transportation and storage	*	*	*	[3.2]	[3.3]	*	*
I	Accommodation and food service activities	28.6	29.1	27.8	26.6	30.3	30.9	30.0
J	Information and communication	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
N	Administrative and support service activities	[4.3]	[3.8]	[4.9]	[4.2]	[4.9]	[3.9]	[4.4]
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
P	Education	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Q	Human health and social work activities	6.4	5.6	[5.1]	6.2	[4.3]	[4.9]	6.9
R-U	Other NACE activities	7.8	8.4	9.0	8.6	9.0	8.6	8.6
Not stated		*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector¹
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.5
B-F	Total Industry	18.6	18.9	18.4	18.6	18.8	19.0	18.6
B-E	Industry	14.1	13.9	13.6	13.9	13.7	14.0	13.6
F	Construction	4.5	5.0	4.8	4.8	5.0	5.0	5.0
G-U	Total Services	79.8	79.5	80.1	79.9	79.8	79.6	79.7
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	14.6	13.8	14.3	13.8	13.5	13.3	13.4
H	Transportation and storage	4.0	4.3	4.4	4.4	4.5	4.4	4.4
I	Accommodation and food service activities	8.1	8.3	7.9	7.9	8.3	7.9	7.9
J	Information and communication	5.5	5.8	5.4	5.5	5.4	5.9	5.7
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	5.3	5.0	5.1	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.4
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.5	5.5	5.1	5.4
N	Administrative and support service activities	4.1	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.5	4.6	4.4
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.7	5.7	5.8	6.0
P	Education	8.6	8.7	9.0	9.0	8.8	9.0	9.3
Q	Human health and social work activities	14.3	13.6	14.0	13.9	14.0	14.0	13.9
R-U	Other NACE activities	4.4	4.6	4.3	4.1	4.1	4.1	4.0
Not stated		*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector¹
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	*	[28.9]	[23.6]	[21.7]	*	*	[15.1]
B-F	Total Industry	6.7	5.6	5.0	5.5	4.7	4.8	3.5
B-E	Industry	6.0	5.3	5.7	5.5	3.9	3.7	[2.4]
F	Construction	[9.0]	[6.5]	*	[5.5]	[6.8]	[7.8]	[6.4]
G-U	Total Services	8.9	8.8	7.9	8.8	7.6	7.4	6.9
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	16.0	15.4	14.9	17.2	14.3	14.1	13.7
H	Transportation and storage	*	*	*	[6.1]	[5.3]	*	*
I	Accommodation and food service activities	30.4	29.7	26.5	28.3	26.3	27.4	24.5
J	Information and communication	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
N	Administrative and support service activities	[9.1]	[7.0]	[7.8]	[7.6]	[7.8]	[5.9]	[6.3]
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
P	Education	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Q	Human health and social work activities	3.9	3.5	[2.8]	3.7	[2.2]	[2.4]	3.2
R-U	Other NACE activities	15.3	15.5	15.9	17.4	15.7	14.9	13.8
Not stated		*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total		8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
¹ Note: Denominator excludes employees whose National Minimum Wage status was Not stated

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Broad occupational group/National Minimum Wage status			Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	115.7	111.6	111.2	108.5	106.4	112.3	112.7
		Not stated	*	*	[5.1]	[5.1]	*	*	*
		Total	121.0	116.8	118.0	115.3	112.0	116.2	117.9
2.	Professionals	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	379.8	394.5	408.8	411.2	417.0	422.4	430.7
		Not stated	17.9	13.6	17.1	17.3	17.7	12.8	13.0
		Total	400.0	411.9	427.9	432.7	436.8	437.6	445.4
3.	Associate professional and technical	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[4.7]	[5.3]	[5.1]	[6.2]	*	[6.1]	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	211.4	212.4	213.6	214.3	207.3	225.3	229.4
		Not stated	12.0	15.5	14.2	12.6	11.7	10.4	[7.0]
		Total	228.1	233.1	232.9	233.1	222.3	241.8	239.7
4.	Administrative and secretarial	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[5.4]	9.2	[5.6]	7.5	[6.9]	[6.4]	[5.7]
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	190.7	192.3	192.5	202.0	205.8	207.8	217.5
		Not stated	12.7	11.5	10.8	11.7	12.2	11.3	11.1
		Total	208.8	213.1	208.9	221.2	224.8	225.5	234.3
5.	Skilled trades	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	17.8	17.4	13.3	14.0	15.4	13.1	13.7
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	152.1	161.7	171.3	158.9	164.4	159.7	172.8
		Not stated	16.9	19.8	18.2	21.0	17.4	12.7	12.9
		Total	186.7	198.9	202.7	193.9	197.2	185.5	199.4
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	17.6	13.7	15.6	17.3	13.6	12.7	14.9
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	139.8	140.5	142.8	140.9	149.5	155.7	156.7
		Not stated	17.9	20.0	15.9	18.9	15.5	16.9	11.9
		Total	175.3	174.3	174.2	177.1	178.6	185.4	183.6
7.	Sales and customer service	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	35.0	33.1	32.9	36.8	30.2	32.8	32.1
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	126.2	130.6	132.7	131.3	137.8	138.1	140.4
		Not stated	15.6	14.8	16.3	16.5	12.1	13.9	15.9
		Total	176.8	178.5	182.0	184.6	180.2	184.8	188.5
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	11.6	10.3	9.7	12.0	9.3	[7.9]	[5.9]
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	122.5	131.9	133.9	135.0	145.1	150.0	145.5
		Not stated	10.3	14.0	11.5	12.1	8.6	9.2	[7.4]
		Total	144.3	156.1	155.0	159.1	162.9	167.1	158.8
9.	Elementary	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	54.7	57.7	50.9	52.1	49.1	49.2	43.5
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	150.1	163.0	164.8	162.7	174.4	175.8	176.2
		Not stated	23.6	23.6	21.7	23.6	21.6	21.7	22.3
		Total	228.4	244.4	237.3	238.4	245.2	246.8	242.0
	Other/Not stated	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	[7.9]	10.5	8.2	7.4	[5.7]	[5.0]	[5.4]
		Not stated	[5.5]	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	13.7	15.7	11.2	11.5	9.4	[6.9]	8.4
All employees		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
		Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
		Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Broad occupational group/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by occupation (SOC2010)
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
2.	Professionals	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
3.	Associate professional and technical	[3.1]	[3.5]	[3.7]	[4.0]	*	[4.6]	*
4.	Administrative and secretarial	[3.6]	6.1	[4.1]	4.9	[5.2]	[4.9]	[4.6]
5.	Skilled trades	11.8	11.4	9.7	9.2	11.6	9.9	11.1
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	11.7	9.0	11.3	11.4	10.2	9.6	12.2
7.	Sales and customer service	23.2	21.7	24.0	24.1	22.8	24.8	26.2
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	7.7	6.7	7.1	7.9	7.0	[6.0]	[4.8]
9.	Elementary	36.3	37.8	37.1	34.2	37.0	37.3	35.4
	Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by occupation (SOC2010)¹
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	6.7	6.3	6.2	6.0	5.9	6.0	6.0
2.	Professionals	21.9	22.1	22.6	22.8	22.7	22.5	22.6
3.	Associate professional and technical	12.4	12.1	12.0	12.1	11.4	12.3	12.2
4.	Administrative and secretarial	11.2	11.2	10.9	11.5	11.5	11.4	11.7
5.	Skilled trades	9.7	9.9	10.2	9.5	9.7	9.2	9.8
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	9.0	8.6	8.7	8.7	8.8	8.9	9.0
7.	Sales and customer service	9.2	9.1	9.1	9.2	9.1	9.1	9.0
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	7.7	7.9	7.9	8.1	8.4	8.4	7.9
9.	Elementary	11.7	12.3	11.9	11.8	12.1	11.9	11.5
	Other/Not stated	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.4	[0.3]	[0.3]	[0.3]
Total		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each occupation (SOC2010) category¹
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
2.	Professionals	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
3.	Associate professional and technical	[2.2]	[2.4]	[2.3]	[2.8]	*	[2.6]	*
4.	Administrative and secretarial	[2.7]	4.6	[2.8]	3.6	[3.2]	[3.0]	[2.5]
5.	Skilled trades	10.5	9.7	7.2	8.1	8.6	7.6	7.3
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	11.2	8.9	9.8	10.9	8.3	7.6	8.7
7.	Sales and customer service	21.7	20.2	19.9	21.9	18.0	19.2	18.6
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	8.6	7.2	6.8	8.2	6.0	[5.0]	[3.9]
9.	Elementary	26.7	26.1	23.6	24.3	22.0	21.9	19.8
	Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total		8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
¹ Note: Denominator excludes employees whose National Minimum Wage status was Not stated

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Age group/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
15-19	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	30.2	34.5	30.5	28.6	27.9	32.7	30.6
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	19.2	22.3	19.7	16.6	20.9	24.5	26.3
	Not stated	[6.7]	7.8	7.7	[5.3]	[5.6]	7.5	[6.1]
	Total	56.1	64.6	57.8	50.6	54.3	64.7	63.0
20-24	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	40.8	46.9	38.2	45.8	40.6	40.0	36.5
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	112.6	123.4	125.8	118.6	127.5	137.1	136.6
	Not stated	18.8	22.2	20.7	20.8	18.8	19.5	18.9
	Total	172.2	192.6	184.7	185.2	186.9	196.6	192.0
15-24 (Youths)	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	71.0	81.5	68.6	74.5	68.5	72.8	67.1
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	131.7	145.7	145.5	135.3	148.4	161.5	162.8
	Not stated	25.5	30.0	28.4	26.1	24.3	27.0	25.0
	Total	228.3	257.2	242.5	235.8	241.2	261.3	255.0
25-34	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	32.1	31.0	28.3	28.0	27.4	24.3	22.0
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	405.4	402.6	409.9	406.3	408.3	408.6	418.7
	Not stated	39.1	37.0	33.8	41.5	33.6	26.6	29.7
	Total	476.6	470.5	472.0	475.8	469.3	459.5	470.5
35-44	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	23.1	18.8	18.7	20.7	13.0	14.8	13.4
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	480.5	492.8	500.9	507.3	514.9	520.7	528.8
	Not stated	29.5	30.5	29.4	27.6	27.0	23.2	18.4
	Total	533.2	542.1	549.1	555.6	554.8	558.6	560.6
45-54	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	12.6	11.8	10.9	13.3	14.4	11.6	11.9
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	352.5	365.3	373.8	376.2	389.0	396.4	405.1
	Not stated	22.4	24.6	25.0	27.0	18.7	18.6	16.9
	Total	387.4	401.6	409.8	416.5	422.1	426.6	433.9
55-59	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[6.0]	[3.8]	[5.5]	7.2	[4.7]	[3.6]	[4.1]
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	127.6	139.0	139.5	134.9	136.1	140.5	144.8
	Not stated	9.7	10.0	8.6	9.6	10.4	9.4	7.2
	Total	143.3	152.7	153.6	151.6	151.3	153.5	156.2
60-64	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[4.1]	[3.5]	*	[5.0]	*	*	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	74.9	80.0	84.6	85.2	88.4	90.7	91.7
	Not stated	7.0	6.3	6.1	7.4	6.5	6.1	6.4
	Total	86.0	89.7	93.6	97.5	97.5	99.1	100.2
65+	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	[3.7]	*	*	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	23.4	23.6	25.3	27.1	28.3	33.6	35.5
	Not stated	*	*	*	[3.2]	*	*	[4.1]
	Total	28.2	28.8	29.6	34.0	33.1	39.0	41.7
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Age group/National Minimum Wage status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by age group
15-19	20.1	22.7	22.2	18.8	21.0	24.8	24.9
20-24	27.1	30.8	27.8	30.1	30.6	30.3	29.8
Total 15-24 (Youths)	47.2	53.5	50.0	48.9	51.6	55.1	54.7
25-34	21.3	20.3	20.6	18.4	20.7	18.4	18.0
35-44	15.3	12.4	13.6	13.6	9.8	11.2	10.9
45-54	8.3	7.7	8.0	8.7	10.9	8.8	9.7
55-59	[4.0]	[2.5]	[4.0]	4.7	[3.6]	[2.7]	[3.4]
60-64	[2.7]	[2.3]	*	[3.3]	*	*	*
65+	*	*	*	[2.4]	*	*	*
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by age group¹
15-19	2.8	3.2	2.8	2.5	2.6	3.0	3.0
20-24	8.8	9.5	9.0	9.0	9.1	9.4	9.1
Total 15-24 (Youths)	11.6	12.6	11.8	11.5	11.8	12.4	12.0
25-34	25.0	24.1	24.1	23.8	23.6	23.0	23.1
35-44	28.8	28.4	28.6	28.9	28.6	28.4	28.4
45-54	20.9	20.9	21.2	21.3	21.9	21.7	21.8
55-59	7.7	7.9	8.0	7.8	7.6	7.6	7.8
60-64	4.5	4.6	4.8	4.9	4.9	4.9	4.9
65+	1.4	1.4	1.5	1.7	1.6	1.9	2.0
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each age group¹
15-19	61.2	60.7	60.7	63.3	57.2	57.2	53.8
20-24	26.6	27.6	23.3	27.9	24.1	22.6	21.1
Total 15-24 (Youths)	35.0	35.9	32.0	35.5	31.6	31.1	29.2
25-34	7.3	7.1	6.5	6.4	6.3	5.6	5.0
35-44	4.6	3.7	3.6	3.9	2.5	2.8	2.5
45-54	3.4	3.1	2.8	3.4	3.6	2.8	2.9
55-59	[4.5]	[2.6]	[3.8]	5.0	[3.4]	[2.5]	[2.8]
60-64	[5.2]	[4.1]	*	[5.5]	*	*	*
65+	*	*	*	[12.1]	*	*	*
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
¹ Note: Denominator excludes employees whose National Minimum Wage status was Not stated

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Region/National Minimum Wage status			Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Northern and Western		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	28.2	29.2	26.5	30.2	27.4	30.0	28.9
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	255.5	257.7	267.8	261.9	274.0	275.9	283.5
		Not stated	25.7	25.7	21.6	25.4	16.9	19.7	18.6
		Total	309.4	312.6	316.0	317.5	318.2	325.5	331.0
	Border	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	15.6	16.1	13.0	15.5	13.5	16.2	17.0
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	116.5	112.9	117.7	117.3	120.7	116.8	120.1
		Not stated	12.9	11.0	10.4	11.4	8.1	9.3	11.3
		Total	145.0	140.0	141.1	144.1	142.3	142.3	148.4
	West	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	12.6	13.1	13.6	14.8	13.8	13.7	11.9
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	139.0	144.8	150.1	144.6	153.2	159.1	163.4
		Not stated	12.8	14.7	11.3	14.0	8.8	10.4	[7.3]
		Total	164.5	172.6	175.0	173.4	175.9	183.2	182.6
Southern		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	55.7	56.9	47.3	55.7	44.6	49.2	44.7
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	485.7	499.7	499.3	504.9	511.8	529.6	538.8
		Not stated	51.3	58.5	59.6	56.5	51.6	39.8	47.2
		Total	592.7	615.1	606.1	617.1	608.0	618.6	630.8
	Mid-West	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	18.2	15.5	10.7	14.9	9.9	15.9	10.9
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	137.3	144.8	143.6	144.9	146.7	150.2	156.6
		Not stated	23.1	19.7	21.0	20.6	23.9	15.4	15.6
		Total	178.6	180.0	175.2	180.4	180.5	181.6	183.1
	South-East	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	15.5	15.1	17.5	15.7	12.9	14.3	14.2
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	130.9	119.0	118.0	125.5	131.9	132.3	140.4
		Not stated	7.5	18.9	21.4	15.7	11.0	10.2	10.4
		Total	153.8	153.0	157.0	156.9	155.8	156.8	165.1
	South-West	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	22.0	26.3	19.1	25.1	21.8	19.0	19.6
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	217.6	235.9	237.7	234.5	233.2	247.0	241.8
		Not stated	20.7	19.9	17.2	20.2	16.7	14.2	21.2
		Total	260.3	282.1	273.9	279.8	271.7	280.3	282.6
Eastern and Midland		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	66.7	66.3	63.4	66.5	60.7	53.0	49.1
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	854.9	891.5	912.5	905.5	927.6	946.6	965.1
		Not stated	59.3	57.2	52.1	60.3	54.9	53.8	42.0
		Total	980.9	1,015.0	1,028.0	1,032.3	1,043.2	1,053.5	1,056.3
	Dublin	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	33.2	34.7	33.1	35.3	31.7	27.6	24.8
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	531.2	553.8	569.1	559.7	575.0	583.5	598.1
		Not stated	36.2	36.8	28.8	37.5	37.0	33.2	23.1
		Total	600.7	625.3	631.1	632.6	643.7	644.3	646.0
	Mid-East	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	21.8	20.9	18.3	19.9	20.0	18.7	16.1
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	236.7	246.2	253.1	256.4	257.8	260.7	267.0
		Not stated	17.0	16.1	20.4	18.2	14.2	16.7	15.0
		Total	275.5	283.2	291.8	294.5	292.0	296.0	298.1
	Midland	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	11.7	10.7	11.9	11.2	8.9	[6.7]	8.2
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	87.0	91.6	90.2	89.4	94.9	102.5	100.0
		Not stated	[6.0]	*	*	[4.6]	*	*	*
		Total	104.7	106.5	105.0	105.2	107.5	113.1	112.2
All employees		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
		Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
		Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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Region/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions
Northern and Western		18.7	19.1	19.3	19.8	20.6	22.7	23.6
	Border	10.4	10.5	9.5	10.1	10.2	12.3	13.9
	West	8.4	8.6	9.9	9.7	10.4	10.4	9.7
Southern		37.0	37.4	34.5	36.5	33.6	37.2	36.4
	Mid-West	12.1	10.2	7.8	9.8	7.5	12.0	8.9
	South-East	10.3	9.9	12.8	10.3	9.7	10.8	11.6
	South-West	14.6	17.3	13.9	16.5	16.4	14.4	16.0
Eastern and Midland		44.3	43.5	46.2	43.6	45.7	40.1	40.0
	Dublin	22.1	22.8	24.2	23.2	23.9	20.9	20.2
	Mid-East	14.5	13.7	13.3	13.1	15.1	14.1	13.1
	Midland	7.7	7.0	8.7	7.4	6.7	[5.1]	6.7
Total		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions¹
Northern and Western		16.2	15.9	16.2	16.0	16.3	16.2	16.4
	Border	7.6	7.2	7.2	7.3	7.3	7.1	7.2
	West	8.7	8.8	9.0	8.7	9.1	9.2	9.2
Southern		31.0	30.9	30.1	30.7	30.1	30.7	30.5
	Mid-West	8.9	8.9	8.5	8.8	8.5	8.8	8.8
	South-East	8.4	7.4	7.5	7.7	7.8	7.8	8.1
	South-West	13.7	14.6	14.1	14.2	13.8	14.1	13.7
Eastern and Midland		52.8	53.2	53.7	53.3	53.5	53.1	53.1
	Dublin	32.3	32.7	33.2	32.6	32.9	32.4	32.6
	Mid-East	14.8	14.8	14.9	15.1	15.1	14.8	14.8
	Midland	5.6	5.7	5.6	5.5	5.6	5.8	5.7
Total		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions category¹
Northern and Western		9.9	10.2	9.0	10.3	9.1	9.8	9.3
	Border	11.8	12.5	9.9	11.6	10.1	12.2	12.4
	West	8.3	8.3	8.3	9.3	8.3	7.9	6.8
Southern		10.3	10.2	8.6	9.9	8.0	8.5	7.7
	Mid-West	11.7	9.7	6.9	9.3	6.3	9.6	6.5
	South-East	10.6	11.2	12.9	11.1	8.9	9.7	9.2
	South-West	9.2	10.0	7.4	9.7	8.6	7.2	7.5
Eastern and Midland		7.2	6.9	6.5	6.8	6.1	5.3	4.8
	Dublin	5.9	5.9	5.5	5.9	5.2	4.5	4.0
	Mid-East	8.5	7.8	6.7	7.2	7.2	6.7	5.7
	Midland	11.8	10.4	11.7	11.2	8.6	[6.1]	7.6
Total		8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
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Usual hours of work per week/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
1-9 hours	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	16.7	12.4	13.0	16.4	11.8	9.9	15.5
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	26.5	22.3	22.0	22.3	20.2	21.0	30.2
	Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	47.6	37.1	38.8	41.5	33.9	33.9	49.5
10-19 hours	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	33.0	27.8	29.3	33.5	29.2	28.3	30.1
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	81.6	81.0	89.2	88.4	91.5	82.6	98.2
	Not stated	17.6	15.8	15.7	14.2	15.8	16.9	16.4
	Total	132.2	124.6	134.2	136.1	136.5	127.8	144.8
20-29 hours	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	31.8	32.6	28.3	28.8	31.7	28.7	21.9
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	193.1	182.5	187.0	185.3	188.9	195.4	200.4
	Not stated	20.3	21.8	21.2	24.1	21.6	20.8	20.5
	Total	245.2	236.8	236.6	238.1	242.2	245.0	242.8
30-34 hours	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	9.1	9.9	[6.3]	9.2	10.4	8.9	[7.2]
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	97.5	106.6	105.2	101.6	105.5	117.0	120.1
	Not stated	[4.6]	[4.8]	[4.8]	[5.7]	[5.0]	[4.5]	[4.9]
	Total	111.2	121.3	116.3	116.5	121.0	130.4	132.2
35-39 hours	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	23.2	29.7	24.9	26.1	19.9	20.6	19.1
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	532.2	574.3	575.1	584.8	592.4	606.9	612.4
	Not stated	25.1	32.9	28.3	26.7	18.9	22.9	19.7
	Total	580.5	636.9	628.2	637.6	631.3	650.4	651.3
40-44 hours	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	23.5	23.8	20.0	21.5	17.3	19.0	15.9
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	446.5	461.5	474.4	463.6	487.4	492.4	476.8
	Not stated	45.5	38.6	36.0	44.1	37.4	25.7	24.3
	Total	515.5	523.9	530.4	529.1	542.0	537.1	517.0
45 hours & over	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[6.0]	[7.1]	[4.9]	7.4	[6.0]	[5.2]	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	184.0	178.8	184.6	183.5	187.4	189.9	201.9
	Not stated	[7.3]	11.7	10.0	8.0	10.3	[6.7]	[4.9]
	Total	197.3	197.6	199.5	199.0	203.7	201.7	209.9
Variable hours	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[7.3]	9.1	10.3	9.6	[6.3]	11.7	10.0
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	34.7	42.0	42.2	42.8	40.0	46.8	47.3
	Not stated	11.5	13.2	13.6	16.6	12.6	12.9	13.2
	Total	53.5	64.3	66.1	68.9	59.0	71.3	70.5
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Usual hours of work per week/National Minimum Wage status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by usual hours of work per week
1-9 hours	11.1	8.1	9.5	10.8	8.9	7.5	12.6
10-19 hours	21.9	18.3	21.4	22.0	22.0	21.4	24.5
20-29 hours	21.1	21.4	20.7	18.9	23.9	21.7	17.8
30-34 hours	6.1	6.5	[4.6]	6.0	7.8	6.7	[5.8]
35-39 hours	15.4	19.5	18.2	17.1	15.0	15.6	15.6
40-44 hours	15.6	15.6	14.6	14.1	13.0	14.4	12.9
45 hours & over	[4.0]	[4.7]	[3.6]	4.9	[4.5]	[3.9]	*
Variable hours	[4.9]	6.0	7.5	6.3	[4.8]	8.8	8.1
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by usual hours of work per week¹
1-9 hours	2.5	1.9	1.9	2.1	1.7	1.6	2.4
10-19 hours	6.6	6.0	6.5	6.7	6.5	5.9	6.7
20-29 hours	12.9	11.9	11.9	11.7	12.0	11.9	11.6
30-34 hours	6.1	6.5	6.1	6.1	6.3	6.7	6.7
35-39 hours	31.8	33.5	33.0	33.5	33.2	33.3	33.1
40-44 hours	26.9	26.9	27.2	26.6	27.3	27.1	25.8
45 hours & over	10.9	10.3	10.4	10.5	10.5	10.4	10.7
Variable hours	2.4	2.8	2.9	2.9	2.5	3.1	3.0
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each usual hours of work per week category¹
1-9 hours	38.7	35.8	37.2	42.5	36.9	32.0	33.9
10-19 hours	28.8	25.6	24.7	27.4	24.2	25.5	23.5
20-29 hours	14.1	15.1	13.2	13.4	14.4	12.8	9.8
30-34 hours	8.6	8.5	[5.7]	8.3	9.0	7.1	[5.6]
35-39 hours	4.2	4.9	4.2	4.3	3.3	3.3	3.0
40-44 hours	5.0	4.9	4.0	4.4	3.4	3.7	3.2
45 hours & over	[3.2]	[3.8]	[2.6]	3.9	[3.1]	[2.6]	*
Variable hours	[17.4]	17.8	19.6	18.3	[13.7]	20.0	17.4
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
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Full and part-time status/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Full-time	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	66.5	68.0	57.7	67.4	54.4	52.1	49.3
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,324.9	1,375.7	1,395.6	1,388.7	1,426.6	1,455.6	1,473.4
	Not stated	89.1	96.0	88.7	94.6	80.2	70.3	64.3
	Total	1,480.5	1,539.7	1,541.9	1,550.8	1,561.2	1,578.0	1,586.9
Part-time	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	84.2	84.4	79.5	84.9	78.2	80.1	73.5
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	271.3	273.2	284.0	283.6	286.8	296.4	314.1
	Not stated	47.2	45.4	44.6	47.5	43.2	43.1	43.6
	Total	402.6	403.0	408.2	416.0	408.1	419.6	431.2
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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Full and part-time status/National Minimum Wage status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by full-time/part-time status
Full-time	44.1	44.6	42.0	44.3	41.0	39.4	40.1
Part-time	55.9	55.4	58.0	55.7	59.0	60.6	59.9
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by full-time/part-time status¹
Full-time	79.7	80.1	80.0	79.8	80.2	80.0	79.7
Part-time	20.3	19.9	20.0	20.2	19.8	20.0	20.3
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each full-time/part-time status category¹
Full-time	4.8	4.7	4.0	4.6	3.7	3.5	3.2
Part-time	23.7	23.6	21.9	23.0	21.4	21.3	19.0
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
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Permanency of employment/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Permanent employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	100.7	93.5	93.6	106.2	88.9	79.9	77.9
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,483.5	1,520.9	1,558.8	1,564.8	1,594.7	1,622.6	1,649.4
	Not stated	102.1	106.1	100.8	107.5	90.4	78.8	76.0
	Total	1,686.4	1,720.4	1,753.2	1,778.5	1,774.0	1,781.3	1,803.3
Temporary employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	49.0	58.6	41.7	44.7	42.0	50.2	43.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	108.6	125.7	116.6	104.3	115.9	124.5	132.9
	Not stated	30.1	31.7	27.9	28.2	28.1	31.1	27.5
	Total	187.8	216.0	186.1	177.2	186.0	205.8	204.2
Not stated	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	*	*	*	*	*	[5.0]	*
	Not stated	*	*	[4.7]	[6.4]	*	*	*
	Total	8.9	[6.3]	10.8	11.1	9.4	10.5	10.6
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Permanency of employment/National Minimum Wage status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by permanency of employment
Permanent employees	66.9	61.4	68.3	69.7	67.1	60.4	63.5
Temporary employees	32.5	38.5	30.4	29.3	31.7	38.0	35.6
Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by permanency of employment¹
Permanent employees	90.7	89.6	91.0	91.6	91.2	90.4	90.4
Temporary employees	9.0	10.2	8.7	8.2	8.6	9.3	9.2
Not stated	[0.3]	*	[0.3]	[0.3]	*	[0.4]	[0.3]
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each permanency of employment category¹
Permanent employees	6.4	5.8	5.7	6.4	5.3	4.7	4.5
Temporary employees	31.1	31.8	26.3	30.0	26.6	28.8	24.8
Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
¹ Note: Denominator excludes employees whose National Minimum Wage status was Not stated

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Supervisory duties/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Employees classified by supervisory duties and National Minimum Wage status
Person is a supervisor	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	10.6	9.3	8.3	9.7	10.0	8.6	8.5
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	544.0	533.8	550.8	557.9	561.4	572.8	582.9
	Not stated	21.3	19.4	21.6	17.8	16.8	14.3	11.8
	Total	575.9	562.4	580.8	585.4	588.2	595.7	603.1
Person is not a supervisor	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	139.4	142.7	128.7	141.9	122.0	122.9	114.2
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,042.7	1,109.5	1,121.5	1,107.4	1,143.9	1,168.6	1,194.8
	Not stated	109.4	115.4	107.8	120.8	102.0	94.9	91.3
	Total	1,291.6	1,367.6	1,358.0	1,370.1	1,367.9	1,386.5	1,400.2
Not stated	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	9.5	[5.7]	[7.3]	7.0	8.1	10.7	9.8
	Not stated	*	[6.7]	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	15.6	12.7	11.3	11.3	13.3	15.5	14.7
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Supervisory duties/National Minimum Wage status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by supervisory duties
Person is a supervisor	7.0	6.1	6.1	6.4	7.6	6.5	6.9
Person is not a supervisor	92.6	93.7	93.8	93.2	92.0	93.0	93.0
Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by supervisory duties¹
Person is a supervisor	31.7	30.1	30.8	31.1	31.0	30.9	31.0
Person is not a supervisor	67.7	69.5	68.8	68.5	68.6	68.5	68.5
Not stated	0.6	[0.3]	[0.4]	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.5
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each supervisory duties category¹
Person is a supervisor	1.9	1.7	1.5	1.7	1.8	1.5	1.4
Person is not a supervisor	11.8	11.4	10.3	11.4	9.6	9.5	8.7
Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
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Duration of employment/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Employees classified by duration of employment and National Minimum Wage status
Less than 3 months	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	22.4	32.3	21.7	15.0	22.8	28.5	24.1
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	71.9	78.6	82.3	66.6	69.6	77.2	84.1
	Not stated	10.7	12.4	13.0	9.3	9.0	10.4	9.2
	Total	105.0	123.3	116.9	90.9	101.3	116.1	117.4
3-5 months	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	15.6	19.0	18.1	20.1	12.8	16.8	16.2
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	69.6	67.3	72.5	85.3	69.5	67.4	77.7
	Not stated	8.1	9.6	[7.5]	8.6	8.5	[6.7]	7.9
	Total	93.3	95.9	98.1	114.0	90.9	90.9	101.8
6-11 months	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	19.8	21.7	17.2	24.9	24.3	17.7	15.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	89.4	116.6	114.9	118.1	128.2	129.5	113.2
	Not stated	13.1	16.7	11.1	13.7	13.4	12.2	9.8
	Total	122.3	155.1	143.2	156.7	165.9	159.4	138.8
Total less than 1 year	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	57.8	73.0	57.0	60.0	60.0	63.0	56.2
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	230.8	262.6	269.8	269.9	267.3	274.0	274.9
	Not stated	31.9	38.8	31.5	31.6	30.8	29.4	27.0
	Total	320.6	374.3	358.3	361.6	358.1	366.4	358.1
12-17 months	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	20.0	16.8	13.1	15.8	13.5	14.8	13.4
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	95.2	93.5	96.1	99.9	102.3	102.3	115.9
	Not stated	9.4	9.0	[6.8]	9.9	[6.7]	8.6	9.6
	Total	124.6	119.2	116.0	125.5	122.5	125.7	138.9
18-23 months	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	9.8	8.3	9.0	11.8	9.9	[7.2]	8.1
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	72.9	81.6	70.7	63.4	79.5	86.3	83.1
	Not stated	[6.6]	7.6	[7.0]	[6.5]	[6.6]	8.5	*
	Total	89.3	97.5	86.7	81.7	96.0	102.0	95.8
24-47 months	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	24.9	21.5	25.3	17.5	18.5	21.0	18.4
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	210.3	230.3	231.9	172.3	207.7	239.7	265.2
	Not stated	17.6	20.1	19.6	17.2	16.1	16.4	13.6
	Total	252.8	272.0	276.8	207.0	242.3	277.1	297.2
48 months and greater	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	33.2	26.4	28.9	45.0	27.8	24.2	24.0
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	916.6	912.6	953.2	1,015.2	1,009.4	993.9	997.5
	Not stated	39.8	38.5	42.8	55.8	36.0	30.2	26.6
	Total	989.7	977.6	1,025.0	1,116.0	1,073.3	1,048.4	1,048.1
Total 1 year and over	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	87.9	73.1	76.3	90.1	69.7	67.1	63.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,295.1	1,318.1	1,351.9	1,350.8	1,398.9	1,422.2	1,461.7
	Not stated	73.4	75.2	76.3	89.4	65.5	63.8	54.5
	Total	1,456.4	1,466.4	1,504.5	1,530.3	1,534.1	1,553.2	1,579.9
Not stated	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[4.9]	[6.3]	*	*	*	*	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	70.3	68.3	57.9	51.6	47.2	55.8	50.9
	Not stated	30.9	27.3	25.5	21.2	27.0	20.2	26.4
	Total	106.1	102.0	87.3	75.0	77.2	78.0	80.1
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Duration of employment/National Minimum Wage status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by duration of employment
Less than 3 months	14.8	21.2	15.8	9.9	17.2	21.6	19.6
3-5 months	10.4	12.4	13.2	13.2	9.7	12.7	13.2
6-11 months	13.2	14.2	12.6	16.3	18.3	13.4	12.9
Total less than 1 year	38.4	47.9	41.6	39.4	45.2	47.7	45.7
12-17 months	13.3	11.0	9.5	10.3	10.2	11.2	10.9
18-23 months	6.5	5.5	6.5	7.7	7.5	[5.4]	6.6
24-47 months	16.5	14.1	18.5	11.5	13.9	15.9	15.0
48 months and greater	22.0	17.4	21.1	29.5	21.0	18.3	19.6
Total 1 year and over	58.4	48.0	55.6	59.1	52.5	50.8	52.0
Not stated	[3.3]	[4.2]	*	*	*	*	*
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by duration of employment¹
Less than 3 months	5.4	6.2	5.7	4.5	5.0	5.6	5.7
3-5 months	4.9	4.8	5.0	5.8	4.5	4.5	4.9
6-11 months	6.3	7.7	7.3	7.8	8.3	7.8	6.8
Total less than 1 year	16.5	18.6	18.0	18.1	17.7	17.9	17.3
12-17 months	6.6	6.1	6.0	6.3	6.3	6.2	6.8
18-23 months	4.7	5.0	4.4	4.1	4.8	5.0	4.8
24-47 months	13.5	14.0	14.2	10.4	12.3	13.8	14.8
48 months and greater	54.4	52.1	54.1	58.1	56.2	54.0	53.5
Total 1 year and over	79.2	77.2	78.6	79.0	79.6	79.0	79.9
Not stated	4.3	4.1	3.4	3.0	2.7	3.1	2.8
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each duration of employment category¹
Less than 3 months	23.7	29.1	20.8	18.4	24.7	27.0	22.3
3-5 months	18.3	22.0	20.0	19.0	15.6	19.9	17.3
6-11 months	18.2	15.7	13.0	17.4	15.9	12.0	12.3
Total less than 1 year	20.0	21.7	17.4	18.2	18.3	18.7	17.0
12-17 months	17.4	15.2	12.0	13.6	11.7	12.6	10.4
18-23 months	11.8	9.3	11.2	15.6	11.1	[7.7]	8.8
24-47 months	10.6	8.6	9.8	9.2	8.2	8.0	6.5
48 months and greater	3.5	2.8	2.9	4.2	2.7	2.4	2.4
Total 1 year and over	6.4	5.3	5.3	6.3	4.7	4.5	4.2
Not stated	[6.5]	[8.5]	*	*	*	*	*
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
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Nationality/National Minimum Wage status			Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Employees classified by nationality and National Minimum Wage status
Irish nationals		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	115.5	116.1	106.0	122.9	104.8	108.9	102.3
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,341.7	1,373.9	1,386.3	1,385.5	1,416.4	1,434.8	1,463.6
		Not stated	110.7	114.4	111.8	112.4	102.0	95.4	91.8
		Total	1,567.9	1,604.3	1,604.1	1,620.7	1,623.2	1,639.0	1,657.7
Non-Irish nationals		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	35.1	36.3	31.1	29.5	27.8	23.3	20.4
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	254.5	275.1	293.3	286.8	297.0	317.2	323.9
		Not stated	25.6	27.0	21.5	29.8	21.4	18.0	16.1
		Total	315.2	338.4	346.0	346.1	346.2	358.6	360.4
of which:	United Kingdom	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	40.1	37.7	41.6	43.0	43.8	44.4	45.8
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	44.2	46.2	48.4	50.8	49.1	48.0	51.3
	EU15 excl. Irl and UK	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	40.9	48.4	52.4	48.8	49.0	51.5	52.2
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	48.6	51.9	57.7	55.0	54.6	54.4	57.6
	EU15 to EU28	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	14.1	14.4	10.5	13.1	[9.1]	[8.0]	[6.3]
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	96.8	98.8	102.9	95.6	98.2	108.3	112.1
		Not stated	11.1	[10.3]	[8.5]	10.4	*	[7.0]	*
		Total	122.0	123.5	121.9	119.1	112.8	123.3	123.2
	Other	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	15.7	17.1	15.0	[9.4]	14.1	[12.4]	[8.9]
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	76.7	90.1	96.4	99.5	106.0	113.0	113.7
		Not stated	[8.1]	[9.6]	[6.6]	12.4	[9.7]	[7.4]	*
		Total	100.5	116.8	118.0	121.2	129.7	132.8	128.3
All employees		Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
		Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
		Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
		Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Nationality/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by nationality
Irish nationals		76.7	76.2	77.3	80.7	79.1	82.4	83.3
Non-Irish nationals		23.3	23.8	22.7	19.3	20.9	17.6	16.7
of which:	United Kingdom	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	EU15 excl. Irl and UK	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	EU15 to EU28	9.4	9.5	7.6	8.6	[6.8]	[6.0]	[5.1]
	Other	10.4	11.2	10.9	[6.1]	10.6	[9.4]	[7.2]
Total		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by nationality¹
Irish nationals		83.4	82.7	82.1	82.7	82.4	81.9	82.0
Non-Irish nationals		16.6	17.3	17.9	17.3	17.6	18.1	18.0
of which:	United Kingdom	2.4	2.3	2.5	2.6	2.6	2.5	2.6
	EU15 excl. Irl and UK	2.5	2.7	3.0	2.8	2.7	2.8	2.8
	EU15 to EU28	6.3	6.3	6.2	6.0	5.8	6.2	6.2
	Other	5.3	5.9	6.1	6.0	6.5	6.7	6.4
Total		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each nationality category¹
Irish nationals		7.9	7.8	7.1	8.1	6.9	7.1	6.5
Non-Irish nationals		12.1	11.7	9.6	9.3	8.5	6.8	5.9
of which:	United Kingdom	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	EU15 excl. Irl and UK	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	EU15 to EU28	12.7	12.7	9.2	12.1	[8.4]	[6.8]	[5.3]
	Other	17.0	15.9	13.5	[8.6]	11.7	[9.9]	[7.3]
Total		8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
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Highest level of education attained/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Employees classified by highest level of education attained and National Minimum Wage status
Primary or below	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[6.1]	[3.9]	[4.7]	[6.2]	[5.0]	[5.9]	[5.7]
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	30.9	24.3	31.3	32.8	35.4	38.8	37.4
	Not stated	[5.7]	[4.0]	[5.8]	7.1	7.8	[6.2]	[6.3]
	Total	42.7	32.2	41.7	46.1	48.2	50.8	49.4
Lower secondary	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	23.0	28.1	21.3	26.9	23.3	24.4	20.2
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	117.4	128.5	124.0	120.0	122.4	130.1	121.5
	Not stated	13.4	16.6	13.9	17.5	12.7	12.3	13.1
	Total	153.8	173.2	159.2	164.4	158.5	166.9	154.8
Higher secondary	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	70.3	66.3	62.4	67.2	58.1	61.3	59.5
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	341.3	357.2	351.7	363.9	379.8	380.3	395.0
	Not stated	40.1	39.4	41.6	42.2	33.8	37.9	35.0
	Total	451.7	463.0	455.8	473.2	471.8	479.5	489.6
Post secondary non-tertiary	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	22.5	21.1	19.8	20.4	18.4	17.3	15.0
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	213.8	224.4	233.1	218.9	241.0	229.8	250.6
	Not stated	15.9	19.5	19.4	19.5	18.2	14.4	12.2
	Total	252.2	265.0	272.2	258.7	277.5	261.5	277.8
Third level non-honours degree	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[7.7]	9.3	[8.7]	9.9	[7.3]	[7.4]	[7.4]
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	200.7	197.0	207.2	194.6	204.9	198.9	204.6
	Not stated	11.0	10.2	9.2	7.8	[6.7]	[6.6]	[6.1]
	Total	219.4	216.5	225.0	212.2	218.9	213.0	218.1
Third level honours degree or above	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	16.9	18.2	15.2	17.2	17.4	13.5	12.5
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	664.2	686.5	697.6	707.9	699.7	732.6	740.3
	Not stated	31.2	31.0	30.0	31.5	29.7	21.4	19.2
	Total	712.2	735.8	742.8	756.6	746.8	767.5	771.9
Other/Not stated	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	27.9	31.0	34.8	34.2	30.0	41.5	38.1
	Not stated	18.9	20.7	13.5	16.8	14.5	14.5	16.0
	Total	51.0	57.1	53.4	55.6	47.7	58.3	56.5
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Highest level of education attained/National Minimum Wage status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by highest level of education attained
Primary or below	[4.1]	[2.6]	[3.4]	[4.1]	[3.8]	[4.5]	[4.7]
Lower secondary	15.3	18.4	15.5	17.6	17.6	18.5	16.4
Higher secondary	46.7	43.5	45.5	44.1	43.8	46.4	48.5
Post secondary non-tertiary	14.9	13.8	14.4	13.4	13.8	13.1	12.2
Third level non-honours degree	[5.1]	6.1	[6.3]	6.5	[5.5]	[5.6]	[6.1]
Third level honours degree or above	11.2	12.0	11.1	11.3	13.1	10.2	10.2
Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by highest level of education attained¹
Primary or below	2.1	1.6	2.0	2.1	2.2	2.4	2.3
Lower secondary	8.0	8.7	8.0	8.0	7.9	8.2	7.4
Higher secondary	23.6	23.5	22.8	23.6	23.7	23.4	23.8
Post secondary non-tertiary	13.5	13.6	13.9	13.1	14.0	13.1	13.9
Third level non-honours degree	11.9	11.5	11.9	11.2	11.5	10.9	11.1
Third level honours degree or above	39.0	39.1	39.2	39.7	38.8	39.6	39.4
Other/Not stated	1.8	2.0	2.2	2.1	1.8	2.3	2.1
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each highest level of education attained category¹
Primary or below	[16.5]	[13.8]	[13]	[15.8]	[12.3]	[13.2]	[13.3]
Lower secondary	16.4	17.9	14.7	18.3	16.0	15.8	14.2
Higher secondary	17.1	15.7	15.1	15.6	13.3	13.9	13.1
Post secondary non-tertiary	9.5	8.6	7.8	8.5	7.1	7.0	5.7
Third level non-honours degree	[3.7]	4.5	[4.0]	4.8	[3.4]	[3.6]	[3.5]
Third level honours degree or above	2.5	2.6	2.1	2.4	2.4	1.8	1.7
Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
¹ Note: Denominator excludes employees whose National Minimum Wage status was Not stated

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%
Degree of urbanisation/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Employees classified by degree of urbanisation and National Minimum Wage status
Densely-populated area	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	46.3	43.5	42.8	45.0	41.1	38.7	36.2
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	633.3	673.4	688.4	672.5	685.3	700.9	705.6
	Not stated	49.1	50.9	42.5	54.3	49.0	43.5	37.8
	Total	728.6	767.7	773.7	771.7	775.4	783.1	779.6
Intermediate area	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	46.3	41.6	37.5	43.4	35.1	35.6	34.2
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	382.2	384.8	392.6	390.4	392.7	397.6	402.5
	Not stated	34.6	32.9	36.8	41.5	25.1	24.9	25.7
	Total	463.1	459.2	466.9	475.3	452.9	458.2	462.4
Thinly-populated area	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	58.0	67.3	56.9	64.0	56.4	57.9	52.4
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	580.7	590.8	598.6	609.5	635.4	653.5	679.4
	Not stated	52.7	57.6	54.1	46.3	49.3	45.0	44.3
	Total	691.4	715.7	709.5	719.8	741.1	756.4	776.1
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Degree of urbanisation/National Minimum Wage status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by degree of urbanisation
Densely-populated area	30.7	28.5	31.2	29.5	31.0	29.3	29.5
Intermediate area	30.7	27.3	27.3	28.5	26.5	27.0	27.8
Thinly-populated area	38.5	44.2	41.5	42.0	42.5	43.8	42.7
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by degree of urbanisation¹
Densely-populated area	38.9	39.8	40.2	39.3	39.4	39.3	38.8
Intermediate area	24.5	23.7	23.7	23.8	23.2	23.0	22.9
Thinly-populated area	36.6	36.5	36.1	36.9	37.5	37.8	38.3
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each degree of urbanisation category¹
Densely-populated area	6.8	6.1	5.9	6.3	5.7	5.2	4.9
Intermediate area	10.8	9.7	8.7	10.0	8.2	8.2	7.8
Thinly-populated area	9.1	10.2	8.7	9.5	8.2	8.1	7.2
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
¹ Note: Denominator excludes employees whose National Minimum Wage status was Not stated

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Household composition/National Minimum Wage status		Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Employees classified by household composition and National Minimum Wage status
1 person aged 65+, no persons under 18	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	[3.7]	5.9	[4.6]	7.3	6.7	8.2	9.3
	Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[4.8]	7.3	6.1	9.2	8.4	9.6	11.2
1 person aged <65, no persons under 18	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	9.5	[6.7]	[6.5]	9.1	[8.1]	[8.1]	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	127.5	138.4	133.2	132.5	164.1	148.5	147.7
	Not stated	9.8	11.4	8.2	9.6	8.9	8.6	[6.2]
	Total	146.8	156.5	147.9	151.2	181.1	165.2	158.1
2 persons (at least 1 aged 65+), no persons under 18	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	*	*	*	[4.1]	*	*	*
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	36.0	38.1	41.4	39.5	42.6	45.9	45.8
	Not stated	[5.2]	[5.0]	[3.9]	6.5	[5.3]	[4.0]	[5.5]
	Total	44.6	45.7	47.4	50.1	50.9	52.4	53.8
2 persons (both aged <65), no persons under 18	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	17.2	17.6	16.6	19.5	14.8	14.2	14.7
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	332.1	324.0	332.0	339.6	332.1	351.1	355.5
	Not stated	20.9	20.3	22.6	26.0	19.9	18.4	13.4
	Total	370.2	361.8	371.1	385.1	366.8	383.7	383.7
3 or more persons (all aged 18 or older), no persons under 18	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	46.1	49.1	45.3	46.5	40.7	39.3	37.3
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	321.2	357.6	377.3	377.6	359.2	371.9	376.7
	Not stated	47.6	45.9	42.2	50.6	44.6	38.7	41.2
	Total	414.9	452.6	464.8	474.8	444.5	450.0	455.2
1 person (aged 18 or older), 1 or more persons aged under 18	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	[8.8]	[6.4]	[8.2]	[6.8]	8.6	[6.5]	[7.0]
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	49.6	47.7	52.5	49.4	59.9	58.3	62.6
	Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	61.8	57.6	64.6	58.3	70.2	67.3	72.2
2 persons (both aged 18 or older), 1-3 persons under 18	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	28.2	27.3	22.4	27.2	21.3	20.1	24.6
2 persons (both aged 18 or older), 1-3 persons under 18	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	517.9	508.1	520.3	511.4	522.5	544.4	559.8
	Not stated	27.7	30.5	28.1	26.8	23.1	21.8	19.5
	Total	573.8	565.9	570.8	565.3	566.9	586.3	603.9
Other households with persons aged under 18	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	36.9	42.2	35.3	38.0	35.5	40.8	31.9
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	208.2	229.2	218.3	215.0	226.2	223.8	230.0
	Not stated	21.1	23.9	23.8	19.9	18.8	18.5	18.0
	Total	266.1	295.2	277.4	272.9	280.5	283.0	279.9
All employees	Employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less	150.7	152.4	137.2	152.4	132.6	132.2	122.8
	Employees reporting earning more than National Minimum Wage	1,596.2	1,648.9	1,679.6	1,672.3	1,713.4	1,752.0	1,787.4
	Not stated	136.3	141.4	133.3	142.2	123.4	113.4	107.8
	Total	1,883.1	1,942.7	1,950.1	1,966.8	1,969.4	1,997.6	2,018.1

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%
Household composition/National Minimum Wage status	Q4 17	Q3 18	Q4 18	Q1 19	Q2 19	Q3 19	Q4 19
Share of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less by household composition
1 person aged 65+, no persons under 18	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
1 person aged <65, no persons under 18	6.3	[4.4]	[4.7]	6.0	[6.1]	[6.2]	*
2 persons (at least 1 aged 65+), no persons under 18	*	*	*	[2.7]	*	*	*
2 persons (both aged <65), no persons under 18	11.4	11.6	12.1	12.8	11.2	10.7	12.0
3 or more persons (all aged 18 or older), no persons under 18	30.6	32.2	33.0	30.5	30.7	29.8	30.4
1 person (aged 18 or older), 1 or more persons aged under 18	[5.8]	[4.2]	[6.0]	[4.5]	6.5	[4.9]	[5.7]
2 persons (both aged 18 or older), 1-3 persons under 18	18.7	17.9	16.4	17.8	16.0	15.2	20.0
Other households with persons aged under 18	24.5	27.7	25.8	24.9	26.8	30.8	26.0
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Share of total employees by household composition¹
1 person aged 65+, no persons under 18	[0.2]	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5
1 person aged <65, no persons under 18	7.8	8.1	7.7	7.8	9.3	8.3	8.0
2 persons (at least 1 aged 65+), no persons under 18	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.4	2.5	2.6	2.5
2 persons (both aged <65), no persons under 18	20.0	19.0	19.2	19.7	18.8	19.4	19.4
3 or more persons (all aged 18 or older), no persons under 18	21.0	22.6	23.3	23.2	21.7	21.8	21.7
1 person (aged 18 or older), 1 or more persons aged under 18	3.3	3.0	3.3	3.1	3.7	3.4	3.6
2 persons (both aged 18 or older), 1-3 persons under 18	31.3	29.7	29.9	29.5	29.5	30.0	30.6
Other households with persons aged under 18	14.0	15.1	14.0	13.9	14.2	14.0	13.7
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Proportion of employees reporting earning National Minimum Wage or less within each household composition category¹
1 person aged 65+, no persons under 18	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
1 person aged <65, no persons under 18	6.9	[4.6]	[4.6]	6.4	[4.7]	[5.2]	*
2 persons (at least 1 aged 65+), no persons under 18	*	*	*	[9.5]	*	*	*
2 persons (both aged <65), no persons under 18	4.9	5.2	4.8	5.4	4.3	3.9	4.0
3 or more persons (all aged 18 or older), no persons under 18	12.6	12.1	10.7	11.0	10.2	9.6	9.0
1 person (aged 18 or older), 1 or more persons aged under 18	[15.1]	[11.8]	[13.5]	[12.1]	12.6	[10.0]	[10.1]
2 persons (both aged 18 or older), 1-3 persons under 18	5.2	5.1	4.1	5.0	3.9	3.6	4.2
Other households with persons aged under 18	15.0	15.5	13.9	15.0	13.6	15.4	12.2
Total	8.6	8.5	7.6	8.4	7.2	7.0	6.4
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National Minimum Wage (NMW)

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) was introduced in Ireland on April 1^st, 2000. Since its introduction, the NMW has been adjusted on numerous occasions and for the reference years mentioned in this release, the adult rates were as follows:

2017: €9.25 per hour

2018: €9.55 per hour

2019: €9.80 per hour

The National Minimum Wage is the lowest average hourly rate that can be paid by an employer to an employee. There are a number of exceptions to the requirement to pay NMW which, for the period covered by this release, were as follows:

(a) a person who is a close relative of the employer (i.e. the spouse, civil partner, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, step-father, step-mother, son, daughter, step-son, step-daughter, grandson, grand-daughter, brother, sister, half-brother or half-sister of an employer),

(b) a person taking part in a statutory apprenticeship (e.g. an apprentice printer, plumber, carpenter/joiner, electrician etc), or to

(c) non-commercial activity or work engaged in by prisoners under the supervision of the governor or person in charge of the prison concerned.

(d) Persons aged less than 20 years – as the National Minimum Wage Act only guarantees a reduced or sub-minimum rate of the national minimum wage.

If an employee receives food (known as board) and/or accommodation (known as lodgings) from an employer, this may be considered in the minimum wage calculation although these board or lodging offsets are allowable up to a fixed maximum amount only.

Sub-Minimum Rates

Prior to March 4th 2019, the legislation provided for three different categories of sub-minimum rates, which were fixed as a percentage of the national hourly rate. These rates applied to:

(a) those under 18 years of age,

(b) those over 18 who are in a first job (for up to two years), and

(c) those over 18 who are undergoing a prescribed course of study or training (known as trainee rates). Maximum periods of training range from 3 months to 3 years and training must be certified.

As of March 4th 2019 and under the Employment (Miscellaneouse Provisions) Act 2018, study or training rates as described in (c) above were abolished and sub-minimum rates were simplfied based solely on age as follows:

(a) Aged 20 years and over

(b) Aged under 18 years

(d) Aged 19 years

Labour Force Survey (LFS) and questions on the NMW

The following questions on the NMW were introduced to the LFS from Q2 2016 onwards and, using the 2019 rate as indicative, they are as follows:

The National Minimum Wage is €9.80 per hour. Are your gross hourly earnings excluding bonuses, overtime and allowances:

Less than €9.80 per hour
Exactly €9.80 per hour
More than €9.80 per hour

Do you earn less than €9.80 per hour because you are on:

A special training rate
An age-related rate
A first job over 18 rate
Other reason

The LFS is not designed to be an earnings survey and therefore the NMW data in this release is based on each respondent self-reporting their income. Consequently, some caution is urged in the interpretation of this data. In addition, as the data presented in the release is collected directed from individual respondents, caution is urged in comparing these results to data collected directly from business enterprises.

A number of respondents did not report their status with regard to the NMW, these respondents are identified as ‘Not stated’ in the relevant data tables and are excluded from the denominator in calculating the share or proportion of all respondents on the NMW.

Purpose of the LFS

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) at the beginning of Q3 2017. The purpose of the survey is the production of quarterly labour force estimates and occasional reports on special social topics. The survey meets the requirements of Council Regulation (EC) No. 577/98, adopted in March 1998, which requires the introduction of quarterly labour force surveys in EU member states.

Reference Period

Information is collected continuously throughout the year from households surveyed each week in each quarter. Up to and including the fourth quarter of 2008 the QNHS operated on a seasonal quarter basis since its establishment in Q4 1997. The LFS is undertaken on a calendar quarter basis which was first adopted in the QNHS in the first quarter of 2009.

The reference quarters for survey results are:

Q1 - January to March, Q2 - April to June, Q3 - July to September and Q4 - October to December

Data Collection

The LFS is conducted using mixed mode data collection with the introduction of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). As with the QNHS, information is collected from each sample household over 5 successive quarters or Waves. However, in the LFS, the first interview is conducted by a team of face-to-face interviewers using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI). The four follow-up interviews are conducted using CATI from a dedicated call centre, where householders have agreed to conduct a telephone interview, and are conducted using face-to-face interviews where householders have not agreed to conduct a telephone interview.

Sample Design

A new sample based on the 2011 Census of Population was selected for the LFS and this was introduced incrementally from Q1 2016. The sample was stratified using administrative county and the Pobal HP (Haase and Pratschke) Deprivation Index. A two-stage sample design was used. In the first stage 1,300 blocks were selected using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling. In the second stage households are selected using Simple Random Sampling (SRS). This ensured each household in the sample frame has an equal probability of selection.

To account for the additional attrition resulting from the introduction of mixed mode data collection, the LFS sample was increased incrementally from Q3 2017. An additional 1,300 households were included in Wave 1 for each quarter up to Q3 2018 and this has resulted in a total sample of 32,500 from Q3 2018 onwards. The actual achieved sample varies over time depending on the level of response.

A new sample based on the 2016 Census of Population was introduced on a phased basis (over five quarters) from Q2 2019 and will be fully operational by Q2 2020. As with the expiring sample, the new sample is stratified using administrative county and the Pobal HP (Hasse and Pratschke) Deprivation Index and consists of 32,500 households per quarter.

Households are asked to take part in the survey for five consecutive quarters and are then replaced by other households in the same block. Thus, one fifth of the households in the survey are replaced each quarter and the QNHS/LFS sample involves an overlap of 80% between consecutive quarters and 20% between the same quarter in consecutive years. It is important to note that there is no overlap in sample between the QNHS and the LFS.

The survey results are weighted to agree with population estimates broken down by age, sex and region (the regions have changed from Q1 2018 – see below) and are also calibrated to nationality control totals. The LFS results also contain a non-response adjustment to make the results from the achieved sample representative of the target sample and the population. The population estimates for April of each year are published in a separate release.

Households with all persons aged 75 and over and classified as inactive

Households that contain only respondents who are aged 75 or over who are each classified as Inactive (Not in the Labour Force) are not re-interviewed. This is to reduce unnecessary burden and instead answers are copied forward from the last available interview.

Statistical significance

All estimates based on sample surveys are subject to error, some of which is measurable. Where an estimate is statistically significantly different from another estimate it means that we can be 95% confident that differences between those two estimates are not due to sampling error.

Usual residence and de facto population concepts

Up to and including Q1 2006 the annual population estimates were calculated using the defacto definition of population (i.e. all persons present in the state). Since Q2 2006 a new concept of usual residence has been used, i.e. all persons usually resident and present in the state plus absent persons who are usually resident in Ireland but are temporarily away from home and outside the state.

ILO Labour Force Classification

The primary classification used for the LFS results is the ILO (International Labour Office) labour force classification. Labour Force Survey data on this basis have been published since 1988. The ILO classification distinguishes the following main subgroups of the population aged 15 or over:

In Employment: Persons who worked in the week before the survey for one hour or more for payment or profit, including work on the family farm or business and all persons who had a job but were not at work because of illness, holidays etc. in the week.

Unemployed: Persons who, in the week before the survey, were without work and available for work within the next two weeks, and had taken specific steps, in the preceding four weeks, to find work. It should be noted that as per Eurostat’s operational implementation, the upper age limit for classifying a person as unemployed is 74 years.

Inactive Population (not in labour force): All other persons.

The labour force comprises of persons employed plus unemployed.

NACE Industrial Classification

The LFS sectoral employment figures are based on the EU NACE Rev. 2 (Nomenclature généraledes activités économiques dans les Communauté européenne) classification as defined in Council Regulation (EC) no 1893/2006. Fourteen NACE sub-categories are distinguished in Table 4 of this release. From Q1 2009 NACE Rev. 2 has been adopted as the primary classification of industrial sectors for use in QNHS/LFS outputs. The NACE Rev. 1.1 classification had been in use from Q4 1997 to Q4 2008.

To facilitate analysis and the running of seasonal adjustment on the time series, NACE Rev. 2 estimates have been produced from Q1 1998 onwards. As of Q2 2009 only NACE Rev. 2 estimates have been published.

Occupation Classification

Following changes to the European regulations governing the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (implemented in Ireland using the LFS) (formerly the QNHS) the CSO has been obliged to report occupational coding data to Eurostat based on the new Europe wide classification ISCO-08 from Q1 2011 onwards. To allow this requirement to be met the CSO changed to using UK SOC2010 as the primary classification used in collecting the data. ISCO-08 is then derived from UK SOC2010.

The previously used classification for publication purposes in Ireland was UK SOC1990 and this cannot be directly compared to the new UK SOC2010 classification as all occupations have been reclassified accordingly. One example which highlighted this change was the reclassifying of farmers from the major occupation grouping of ‘Managers and administrators’ in SOC1990 to the major occupation grouping of ‘Skilled trades’ in SOC2010.

Results for occupations coded to the new SOC2010 classification have been recoded for historical quarters back to Q1 2007 to provide a longer and consistent time series for users.

Further information regarding SOC 2010 is available here.

NUTS2 and NUTS3 Regions

The regional classifications in this release is based on the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units) classification used by Eurostat. Until Q4 2017, the NUTS3 regions corresponded to the eight Regional Authorities established under the Local Government Act, 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1993, which came into operation on 1 January 1994 while the NUTS2 regions, which were proposed by Government and agreed by Eurostat in 1999, were groupings of those historic NUTS3 regions.

However, the NUTS3 boundaries were amended on 21^st of November 2016 under Regulation (EC) No. 2066/2016 and have come into force from Q1 2018. The LFS results have been revised according to the new groupings from Q1 2012. The changes resulting from the amendment are that County Louth has moved from the Border to the Mid-East and what was formerly South Tipperary has moved from the South-East to the Mid-West, resulting in the new NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions:

Northern & Western NUTS2 Region		Southern NUTS2 Region		Eastern & Midland NUTS2 Region
Border	Cavan	Mid-West	Clare	Dublin	Dublin City
	Donegal		Limerick		Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
	Leitrim		Tipperary		Fingal
	Monaghan				South Dublin
	Sligo
		South-East	Carlow	Mid-East	Kildare
West	Galway		Kilkenny		Meath
	Mayo		Waterford		Wicklow
	Roscommon		Wexford		Louth

				Midland	Laois
		South-West	Cork		Longford
			Kerry		Offaly
					Westmeath

Non-response adjustment

Non-response occurs when households that are sampled, and that are eligible for the survey, do not provide the requested information. This can lead to biased survey estimates if specific groups within the population are over- or under-represented and if these groups behave differently with respect to the survey variables (i.e. labour market outcomes). To correct for this, the CSO has introduced a non-response adjustment into the weighting procedure for the LFS.

The adjustment involves estimating response rates or propensities to respond as functions of characteristics available for responding and non-responding households, as well as characteristics of the areas where the households are located. Basically, the design weights have to be inflated by the inverse of the response propensities in order to compensate for the loss of units in the sample.

Linking the LFS sample with the Census of Population at household level provides a set of auxiliary variables which are available for both responding and non-responding LFS households. These include a mix of personal characteristics as well as characteristics of the dwelling and location (e.g. gender, age, marital status, education, personal employment status, dwelling type, area etc.). This allows the CSO to compare responding and non-responding households with respect to the characteristics available from the Census. This auxiliary information allows the use of “response propensities” to model non-response and adjust the grossing factors to compensate for non-response.

The response propensities are calculated using a logistic regression model where the dependent variable (Y) is an indicator variable corresponding to response (if the household responded then Y=1 and if the household did not respond then Y=0) and the independent variables are the set of auxiliary variables available from the Census. The estimated response propensities are then used to form adjustment cells or strata which are made up of respondents and non-respondents with similar estimated response propensities. Respondents within each cell/stratum are then weighted by the inverse of the observed response rate in that cell. This non-response adjusted weight is then used to inflate the original survey design weight to account for non-response. This approach is referred to as response propensity classification.

Reliability of Estimates Presented

Estimates for number of persons where there are less than 30 persons in a cell are too small to be considered reliable. These estimates are presented with an asterisk (*) in the relevant tables.

Where there are 30-49 persons in a cell, estimates are considered to have a wider margin of error and should be treated with caution. These cells are presented with parentheses [ ].

Participating Households

The Central Statistics Office wishes to thank the participating households for their co-operation in agreeing to take part in the survey and for facilitating the collection of the relevant data.

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6.4% of employees earned the National Minimum Wage or less in Q4 2019

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