More than one in six workers in parts of Birmingham earn the lowest wages they could legally be paid.
The government today released figures showing the percentage of employees living in each parliamentary constituency who earn either the National Living Wage or the National Minimum Wage.
The National Living Wage, of £7.83 an hour, is the legal minimum for people aged 25 and over.
The National Minimum Wage is the minimum for people younger than that, and ranges from £4.20 an hour (for 16-17 year olds) to £7.38 (for 21-24 year olds).
The data shows than in Birmingham Hodge Hill, an estimated 17 per cent of the workforce is on either the National Living Wage or National Minimum Wage.
That is the third highest proportion for any constituency in Great Britain.
Only Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central (21 per cent) and Leicester East (18 per cent) have higher rates. Birmingham Erdington (14 per cent), Birmingham Perry Barr (12 per cent), Birmingham Hall Green (10 per cent), Birmingham Northfield (10 per cent), Birmingham Selly Oak (nine per cent), and Birmingham Yardley (nine per cent) also have rates above the national average. In Birmingham Edgbaston it is seven per cent.
The figures were released by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
They are based on samples taken from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and were correct as of April 2018.
Across the United Kingdom as a whole, an estimated seven per cent of workers - or 1.96 million people - earn the legal minimum.
The figure falls to six per cent in Scotland, but rises to eight per cent in Wales and 11 per cent in Northern Ireland.
The data only takes into account the constituency in which a person lives - not the constituency in which they work.
Areas with high levels of people paid the legal minimum are likely to have high numbers of student jobs, service industry jobs (like bar staff and waiters), and seasonal work, as well as having higher-than-average levels of deprivation overall.
