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Originally Posted by claytonender
There are many households with only one earner (because there is only one person living in the household) or with one person working full time and the other part time.
If there is a husband working 37 hours a week and earning £15930 per annum (which is the average for all residents as per LCC figures for 2007) and a wife working 20 hours at minimum wage (20 x £5.52 = £110.40 per week) £5740.80 per annum, the annual household income would be £21670.80. Even if the wife was working full time (37 hours at £5.52 =£204.24) £10620.50 the total household income would be £26550.50 per annum.
It is a sad fact of life that women are still paid less than men, even for doing the same job. Men are given job descriptions with fancy titles, such as 'assistant accountant', and women are given job descriptiosn such as 'accounts clerk'. It is very difficult for a woman to prove she is doing the same work as her male co-worker. Also in many companies there is not a proper pay structure, so you have no idea who is earning what amount of pay - unless you actually ask someone.
I think you are living in cloud cuckoo land if you think that two people would both be earning £14000 in the majority of households in Hyndburn.
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Your £15930 figure is an average of full and part time, but someone working 37 hours is full time.
So..
Man working 37 hours in 2007 (and this is working within Hyndburn not outside of it): £21,622
Woman working 20 hours a week on minimum wage (20 x £5.52 = £110.40 per week): £5740.80
Which is £27,362.80
If the woman works full time at minimum wage that's £10620.50 so works out to be £32,242.50
In a band A house this would mean that if the woman was working 20 hours, council tax would be 3.4% of their income or 4.2% if they lived in a band B property (the majority of which is county council tax).
If there's only one earner, then they get discounts on council tax. The £28k figure is perfectly plausible even if two people don't work full time. As it says on LCC website, 52.7% is the amount household income has increased in 6 years, I think that this is good as its inline with the national average, and means that we have a very good deal where it comes to council tax since that has only gone up 45% in 9 years.