Wigan Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 399.7 (62/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 74.7 (12/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 43,488.74 (54/62)
  • Population 2014 321,000 (28/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 75,700 (40/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 104,700 (43/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 21,585 (45/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.1 (56/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 0.23 (52/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 62.17 (57/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 56.23 (35/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 5.94 (57/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 37.83 (7/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 28.69 (11/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 9.14 (9/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 -855 (17/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 0.27 (50/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.47 (36/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 0.59 (27/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.05 (49/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 0.38 (40/63)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 49.64 (19/63)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 50.36 (4/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 76.49 (36/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 12.88 (19/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 10.63 (38/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 4.44 (22/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 5.17 (61/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 3.2 (41/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 26.2 (27/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 60.99 (14/63)