Wages

Example table

Example table
Example table (taken from the 2005 Managers Guide to Distribution Cost) Analysis of hours and wages of day drivers by category of vehicle driven (as at 1 October 2005)

The table below shows data for articulated vehicle drivers employed on a day basis.

Similar tables are provided for workshop and warehouse employees, drivers of light rigid (up to 7.5 tonnes gvw), medium rigid (7.5 to 18 tonnes gvw), heavy rigid lorries (rigid vehicles over 17 tonnes gvw) and drawbar vehicles. For further details please click here.

Average
total sample
Average
adjusted
Min
Lower
quartile
Median
Upper
quartile
Max
Articulated vehicles
Basic pay (£)
331.13
332.18
200.00
258.82
355.76
417.60
493.75
Overtime (£)
65.51
64.04
 
 
 
 
 
Productivity (£)
43.93
39.84
 
 
 
 
 
Other Pay (£)
20.51
9.73
 
 
 
 
 
Gross Pay (£)
461.09
445.84
286.89
399.65
440.99
455.80
482.31
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Basic hours
43.13
43.54
35
40
40
48
53
Guaranteed hours
43.63
43.62
 
 
 
 
 
Hours worked
53.58
53.32
45
48
54
58
66
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Basic per hour (£)
7.63
7.62
5.00
6.00
7.50
9.09
9.51
Gross per hour worked (£)
8.67
8.40
5.98
7.60
8.23
11.93
13.19

Freight Transport Association Limited, (a private limited company)
Registered Office - Hermes House, St John's Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN4 9UZ
Registered in England Number 391957