"Figure 13: Mean private sector and public sector earnings are almost equal in 2019","" "Gross weekly private sector earnings as a proportion of public sector earnings for full-time employees for the mean and median, UK, April 1997 to 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Footnotes applicable to this chart are 1, 2, 3 and 5 in [Section 8: Measuring the data](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2019#measuring-this-data)" "Unit","%" "","" "","Median","Mean" "1997","88.5","99.9" "1998","90.1","101.7" "1999","89.5","101.8" "2000","89.8","102.5" "2001","90.8","103.9" "2002","91.0","104.7" "2003","91.0","102.9" "2004","88.4","98.9" "2005","86.4","96.6" "2006","88.2","98.3" "2007","87.7","98.7" "2008","88.0","99.9" "2009","86.1","96.0" "2010","85.2","94.6" "2011","85.1","95.1" "2012","84.9","94.5" "2013","85.5","95.8" "2014","85.3","95.3" "2015","84.8","94.4" "2016","87.1","96.8" "2017","88.6","98.6" "2018","89.5","101.0" "2019","90.2","100.3"