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Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education record 2015/16 - Pay - Q6

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Pay - Q6


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Typefield
Short nameEMPPAY
Description

This data item describes the approximate gross pay for the HE leaver's main employment, before tax.

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All HE leavers where Student.ALLACT is coded 1 or 2.

QuestionQ6. What was your approximate gross pay for your main employment, before tax?
Notes

The information captured is for what the HE leaver considers to be their MAIN job.

To ensure that DLHE pay data are reliable and comparable, it is important this field meets expected response rates.

A response to either Employment.EMPPAY or Employment.EMPUNPAID is expected if the following codes were used for Q1 Student.ALLACT 1 'Working full-time' or 2 'Working part-time'.

The Employment.EMPPAY returned should be that which is stated by the HE leaver, e.g. 25499.99 and not rounded.

A numerical value (xs:decimal), which may be returned to an accuracy of two decimal places, e.g. 25499.99.

The currency to which this amount relates is recorded in Employment.EMPCURRENCY.

Higher education providers (HEPs) will have the option to convert the figure returned in Employment.EMPPAY and/or Employment.ESTEARN when a currency other than pound sterling is used. This conversion to pound sterling can happen at any point during the DLHE schedule and does not need to be the exchange rate as at the census date. When HEPs undertake a conversion in Employment.EMPPAY the HEP must ensure that the Employment.EMPCURRENCY is then returned as 1 'Pounds sterling'.

Employment.EMPPAYPERIOD must also be returned where EMPPAY is returned, in order to derive annual salary.

Required for valid responseNo
To be asked of third partyNo
Quality rules
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Reason required

To enable analysis and comparison of pay in different employment sectors. Also displayed in Unistats.

Part of
Field length20
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: EMPPAY
Data type: EMPPAYType
OwnerHESA
Version1.0
Date modified2016-02-25
Change management notesThe field length increased to 20 characters, previously only 10 characters were permitted. This change will assist higher education providers (HEPs) in the return of pay information in foreign currency as well as in Pound Sterling. Additional guidance added to the notes section, highlighting the importance of pay information as well as expectations of collecting this data.

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