Average wage up 7.7p.c.
A Wellington The average ordinarytime weekly wage increased by 7.7 per cent to $118.16 in the six-month period to last April, according to Labour Department figures released yesterday by the Minister ot Labour (Mr Gordon). The average ordinarytime weekly “amings of men increased bv 7.9 per cent to $129.52. The rate
n for women increased 7 per cent to $97.92. In the year to April, the increase in average ordi-nary-time weekly earnings was 14.9 per cent, compared with 12.3 per cent for the vear to April, 1976. The increase for men was 14.9 per cent, compared with 11.1 per cent for the previous year, while for women the corresponding increases were
15.6 per cent and 15.7 per cent. The figures for women do not reflect the final step of equal pay which was due on April 1. However, the Labour Department says that even with the implementation of equal pay, women’s earnings are not expected to equal men’s earnings because of differences, by sex, in the occupational and industrial structure of employment.
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