According to the Labour Research Department (LRD), nursery nurses' average annual incomes, unlike property prices, vary little across the country, from 10,602 in south-west England to 12,279 in the north-east and 13,872 in London.
A pair of nursery nurses pooling resources would be able to raise enough cash to buy a house in just 16 out of 171 counties in England and Wales, all in the north-east and north-west apart from Barnsley, Doncaster, Hull, North-east Lincolnshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
A report in the December issue of Labour Research, the LRD's publication, highlights the problem of low-paid workers who provide vital community services but cannot afford to buy their own homes, including nursing auxiliaries, ward assistants and ambulance staff. It finds that childcare workers are exceptionally badly off.
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