Escaping the working class: who reaches the TOP professional jobs

Working-class at 13 — what class by 32? Share who reached professional work by age 32, by ethnicity. Next Steps survey (2,452 people); grey bar = all-adult population.

Top professional jobs   Any professional / managerial

'Working-class origin' = main parent in NS-SEC 5-8 (lower supervisory to never-worked) at age 13. Higher professional = NS-SEC 1 (e.g. doctors, senior managers); broad = NS-SEC 1-2 (adds teachers, nurses, junior managers). Base n (working-class origin): Indian 210, Other 66, Mixed 111, Pakistani 157, Bangladeshi 172, Black African 61, White British 1,635, Black Caribbean 40 (total 2,452). Grey 'Population' bar = Census 2021, all E&W adults, not from the survey. Data to 2022 (Next Steps wave 9), from UK Data Service, updated per cohort wave (irregular)
Chart: ieegaSource: Next Steps (LSYPE) wave 9, 2022; benchmark ONS Census 2021Get the data