"Figure 1: The proportion of low-paid employee jobs fell to 16.2% in 2019","" "Proportion of high- and low-paid employee jobs for hourly pay and gross weekly pay, whole economy, UK, 1997 to 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Footnotes applicable to all charts in this bulletin can be found in [Section 7: Measuring the data](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/lowandhighpayuk/2019#measuring-the-data)." "Unit","%" "","" "Year (April)","Low-paid jobs (hourly)","High-paid jobs (hourly)","Low-paid jobs (weekly)","High-paid jobs (weekly)" "1997","21.8","25.2","28.4","25.2" "1998","22.0","25.4","28.5","25.5" "1999","21.9","25.4","28.5","25.4" "2000","21.9","25.6","28.4","25.7" "2001","22.0","25.8","28.4","26.0" "2002","22.0","26.0","28.5","25.9" "2003","21.1","26.1","28.2","26.0" "2004","21.5","25.9","28.2","26.1" "2005","21.6","26.3","28.6","26.7" "2006","21.3","26.3","28.4","26.5" "2007","21.0","26.1","28.4","26.3" "2008","21.5","26.3","28.4","26.7" "2009","21.4","26.2","28.2","26.5" "2010","21.3","26.4","28.7","26.5" "2011","21.4","26.3","28.8","26.9" "2012","21.2","26.4","28.7","26.7" "2013","21.6","26.0","28.7","26.6" "2014","21.3","26.0","28.9","26.4" "2015","20.5","25.8","28.5","26.1" "2016","19.4","25.3","27.5","26.0" "2017","18.4","25.3","27.2","25.9" "2018","17.8","25.7","27.3","25.7" "2019","16.2","25.4","26.6","25.4"