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Figure 18 Global sales and employment of UKAI aerospace assets

• UK companies generated a further £8.58bn of sales and £9.28bn of orders overseas in 2007. An additional 50,808 people are employed by UK companies in locations overseas.
• The majority of overseas assets were again in the US, which accounted for £4.95bn of sales and 36, 806 employees.

Figure 19 Aerospace sales per employee 1980 - 2007

• Productivity increased by 6.85 per cent in real terms to £175, 100 per employee.
• Employment went down to 113,318 in 2007.

Figure 20 UK aerospace employment by sector

• Aircraft and systems account for 39 per cent of employment in the UK.

Figure 21 UK aerospace industry employment by qualification and activity

• In 2007, 39 per cent of aerospace employees held a university degree or equivalent, up from 34 per cent in 2006.
• 28 per cent of employees were technicians.
• 2 per cent of the workforce, which is 2,769 were apprentices.
• Production and maintenance accounted for the largest group of employees (54 per cent or 60,742 employees).

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