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The publication of the 2015 data for ASHE (SOC 2000) 6115, wages of care workers, home carers and senior care workers, has now been published.

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Kate Mikolajewski

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ASHE (2000) 6115: Inflation-beating increase for care workers

The publication of the 2015 data for ASHE (SOC 2000) 6115, wages of care workers, home carers and senior care workers, has now been published. The statistics show that carers wages have increased almost 1.5% over the rate of inflation.

The key points are as follows:-

There has been an average increase across the centiles of some 2.46%
Those workers in the top centiles, namely the 75th, 80th and 90th centiles, however, have seen a lower percentage increase:-

	2014 Revised*	2015 Provisional	Change
75th centile	GBP 9.72	GBP 9.88	1.65%
80th centile	GBP 10.21	GBP 10.38	1.67%

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