Indians in UK earn higher than Pakistanis, says report

Migration Watch UK said on Tuesday that Indians “exhibit strong economic characteristics, they have high rates of employment at good wages and low rates of benefit claim”.

This contrasts sharply with Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrants, who tend to have “lower rates of employment combined with lower wages and higher rates of benefit claim”.

“Earnings for people born in India match those for the UK- born very closely in the lower third of the income distribution but are then consistently higher.

“People born in Pakistan and Bangladesh tend to have very much lower earnings than the UK-born, with nearly 80 per cent below the UK-born median, although there are a small number of very high earners,” the report titled ‘Economic Characteristics of Migrants in the UK in 2014’ showed.

The UK population born in Pakistan and Bangladesh is a similar size to the Indian-born group, an estimated 650,000 with employment rates for women less than half those for any other group.

Migrants from Eastern Europe also have high rates of employment but they have lower wages and higher rates of benefit claim than those born in the UK.