# The Social Housing Rents (Exceptions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2016, Paragraph 2

Extent: E+W

(1) Relative county earnings for a property are calculated by dividing the average manual weekly earnings contained in table 1 for the area in which a property is located, by £316.40.
(2) The areas contained in table 1 are—
(a) the local government areas specified in the first column of the tables in Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1972; and
(b) Greater London within the meaning of section 2 of the London Government Act 1963.
Table 1
Area
Earnings £
Avon
321.20
Bedfordshire
343.70
Berkshire
345.40
Buckinghamshire
328.30
Cambridgeshire
330.10
Cheshire
322.00
Cleveland
338.40
Cornwall
255.50
Cumbria
323.70
Derbyshire
321.10
Devon
278.00
Dorset
293.90
Durham
289.70
East Sussex
281.50
Essex
325.90
Gloucestershire
308.00
Greater London
354.10
Greater Manchester
307.30
Hampshire
328.70
Hereford and Worcestershire
289.60
Hertfordshire
343.70
Humberside
318.40
Isle of Wight
288.50
Kent
316.40
Lancashire
302.70
Leicestershire
303.10
Lincolnshire
286.70
Merseyside
324.90
Norfolk
302.50
North Yorkshire
299.60
Northamptonshire
328.50
Northumberland
276.10
Nottinghamshire
298.00
Oxfordshire
323.80
Shropshire
295.40
Somerset
299.70
South Yorkshire
299.10
Staffordshire
296.20
Suffolk
304.30
Surrey
333.20
Tyne and Wear
307.90
Warwickshire
326.10
West Midlands
320.60
West Sussex
332.50
West Yorkshire
302.70
Wiltshire
313.90

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/390/schedule/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-rents-exceptions-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2016/schedule/paragraph-2
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