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Contractors 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