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Keep up to dateContractors and housebuilders by employees’ average pay | ||||
Average pay 1999 (wages only) £000 | Average pay 1998 (wages only) £000 | Change % | ||
1 | Interior Services Group | 37.1 | 38.8 | (4.5) |
2 | Berkeley Group | 32.3 | 31.8 | 1.5 |
3 | Linden | 31.8 | 26.6 | 19.3 |
4 | Styles & Wood | 29.5 | 27.0 | 9.4 |
5 | Fitzpatrick | 29.3 | 23.7 | 23.6 |
6 | Severfield-Rowen Group | 28.9 | 26.5 | 9.2 |
7 | Sisk | 28.9 | 26.1 | 10.8 |
8 | Drake & Scull Group | 26.8 | 22.8 | 17.6 |
9 | Morgan Sindall | 26.8 | 24.9 | 7.9 |
10 | Norwest Holst | 26.1 | 24.5 | 6.5 |
11 | YJL | 26.1 | 24.1 | 8.1 |
12 | Birse Group | 26.0 | 25.3 | 2.7 |
13 | McCarthy & Stone | 25.7 | 21.3 | 20.8 |
14 | Rydon Holdings | 25.7 | 25.0 | 2.7 |
15 | Amec | 25.6 | 24.2 | 6.1 |
16 | Miller Group | 25.6 | 24.8 | 3.2 |
17 | Fairview Holdings | 25.5 | 30.9 | (17.4) |
18 | Crest Nicholson | 25.2 | 23.5 | 7.1 |
19 | SDC Holdings | 25.1 | 23.2 | 8.0 |
20 | Keller Group | 25.0 | 22.5 | 11.0 |
21 | Wates Construction | 24.7 | 24.2 | 2.2 |
22 | Tulloch Group | 24.5 | 20.7 | 18.3 |
23 | Bovis Homes | 24.4 | 22.6 | 7.8 |
24 | Try Group | 24.4 | 23.6 | 3.1 |
25 | Warings Construction Group | 24.2 | 21.6 | 12.0 |
26 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 24.1 | 23.8 | 1.3 |
27 | Newarthill | 24.0 | 22.8 | 5.5 |
28 | McNicholas Construction | 24.0 | 22.7 | 5.7 |
29 | First Engineering | 23.6 | 20.5 | 15.1 |
30 | Westbury | 23.5 | 20.7 | 13.1 |
31 | Bellway | 23.0 | 21.3 | 7.9 |
32 | MJ Gleeson Group | 22.9 | 20.9 | 9.2 |
33 | George Wimpey | 22.7 | 21.4 | 6.3 |
34 | Bloor Holdings | 22.6 | 21.8 | 4.0 |
35 | Dean & Dyball | 22.5 | 22.0 | 2.2 |
36 | Staveley Industries | 22.5 | 20.0 | 12.5 |
37 | Lorne Stewart | 22.5 | 21.5 | 4.6 |
38 | Willmott Dixon | 22.3 | 20.8 | 7.2 |
39 | Stewart Milne | 22.3 | 21.6 | 3.1 |
40 | Morrison Construction | 22.2 | 20.2 | 10.1 |
41 | Osborne | 22.1 | 22.0 | 0.4 |
42 | Planned Maintenance | 22.1 | 20.7 | 6.6 |
43 | Balfour Beatty | 22.0 | 21.1 | 4.5 |
44 | Tay Homes | 22.0 | 19.8 | 11.1 |
45 | Persimmon | 21.8 | 20.1 | 8.6 |
46 | Bryant Group | 21.7 | 21.8 | (0.2) |
47 | Countryside Properties | 21.5 | 19.2 | 12.0 |
48 | Kennedy Construction Group | 21.5 | 20.3 | 6.0 |
49 | Barratt Developments | 21.2 | 20.1 | 5.6 |
50 | Christiani & Nielsen | 21.2 | 20.2 | 4.6 |
51 | Ballast Wiltshier | 21.1 | 19.7 | 7.0 |
52 | R Mansell | 20.9 | 19.3 | 8.4 |
53 | NG Bailey | 20.8 | 19.3 | 7.7 |
54 | Dew Pitchmastic | 20.7 | 19.2 | 7.8 |
55 | John Mowlem | 20.6 | 19.7 | 4.9 |
56 | R O‘Rourke | 20.5 | 17.4 | 17.7 |
57 | Galliford | 20.5 | 18.8 | 8.9 |
58 | Prowting | 20.5 | 20.4 | 0.5 |
59 | Wilson Connolly | 20.4 | 17.2 | 18.8 |
60 | Pipeline Constructors | 20.4 | 19.3 | 5.6 |
61 | Peterhouse | 20.2 | 18.1 | 11.9 |
62 | Shepherd Building Group | 20.1 | 18.7 | 7.8 |
63 | Wilson Bowden | 20.1 | 18.9 | 6.7 |
64 | Beazer Group | 20.0 | 18.7 | 6.8 |
65 | Amey | 20.0 | 20.8 | (3.7) |
66 | May Gurney Group | 19.9 | 18.2 | 9.8 |
67 | Alfred McAlpine | 19.8 | 19.3 | 2.3 |
68 | Redrow Group | 19.7 | 18.1 | 8.8 |
69 | Carillion | 19.6 | 18.6 | 5.4 |
70 | Biwater | 19.4 | 17.6 | 10.0 |
71 | Simons Group | 19.3 | 20.1 | (4.0) |
72 | Tilbury Douglas | 19.1 | 20.2 | (5.3) |
73 | EBC Group | 18.3 | 17.2 | 6.8 |
74 | ARM Group | 17.9 | 17.1 | 4.9 |
75 | Barr | 17.5 | 17.5 | 0.3 |
76 | Haymills | 17.5 | 16.6 | 4.9 |
77 | Taylor Woodrow | 17.3 | 15.5 | 11.8 |
78 | John Laing | 17.0 | 17.6 | (3.2) |
79 | Clugston Group | 17.0 | 18.2 | (6.4) |
80 | Kier Group | 16.7 | 16.4 | 2.0 |
81 | Henry Boot | 16.0 | 17.0 | (6.2) |
82 | Seddon Group | 15.1 | 14.0 | 8.4 |
83 | Costain Group | 11.3 | 11.7 | (3.5) |
84 | Mitie Group | 5.3 | 4.7 | 11.7 |
Average | 22.2 | 20.9 | 6.2 | |
Key *Full split of activities not provided in reports and accounts, therefore turnover and/or profits assigned to contracting **Total profit refers to pre-tax profit. Splits refer in most cases to operating profit before exceptional items. Total of splits plus non-interest = pre-tax profit ***Net interest payments/receipts, exceptional, and other non-trading income or losses †Contracting is primarily in M&E, FM, repair and maintenance and/or planned maintenance ††Turnover figures estimated/company estimate †††Profit figures estimated §Housing profit is pre-tax |