Claims made under the CJRS until 30 June 2020, have supported 9.4 million employments and 1.14 million employers had made at least one claim by this time. The final date for claiming for staff furloughed up until 30 June is 31 July. Where it has been possible to match CJRS data to Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI), we have estimated the size of each employer in terms of number of employees potentially eligible for CJRS support. For this data, we have assumed that PAYE scheme is the equivalent to an employer. For some employers, this is not an exact one-to-one equivalent. For example, some organisations operate multiple payrolls for different groups of employees and in other situations, a group of companies may pool their payrolls together under one PAYE scheme. However, in our view PAYE schemes provides a reasonable proxy for employers for the purposes of this release. The employer size has been calculated based on an estimate of the number of employments eligible to be furloughed. The key points to note from tables 1a and 1b are:
there has been an increase of 678,000 employments furloughed under CJRS since our June publication and 75,000 additional employers placing at least one employment on furlough, who have not previously claimed
60% of employers had made a claim under CJRS and 31% of employments had been furloughed
employers with 10 to 19 employees have the highest take-up rate, with 80% employers of this size furloughing at least one employee
employees of small and micro-sized employers were more likely to have been furloughed than those working for medium-sized and large employers: 57% of employments at employers with 5 to 9 employees had been furloughed against just 19% at employers with 250 or more employees
employers, with 250 or more employees have furloughed 3.2 million employments. However, this represents only a take-up rate of 19%
while 305,000 employers with one employee have made claims valued up to £721 million through CJRS
Table 1a: CJRS claims by employer size – employer level
Employer sizeEmployers furloughing staffTake-up rateTotal value of claims made (£ millions) 1305,50041%721 2 to 4422,20064%2,316 5 to 9184,50077%2,457 10 to 19107,10080%2,846 20 to 4966,90078%3,675 50 to 9921,90076%2,379 100 to 24912,60074%2,656 250+8,10069%9,314 unknown14,100-87 Total1,142,40060%26,450 Source: HMRC CJRS and PAYE Real Time Information data Table 1b: CJRS claims by employer size – employment level
Employer sizeEmployments furloughedTake-up rate 1305,00041% 2 to 4933,00055% 5 to 9880,90057% 10 to 19955,00053% 20 to 491,157,00044% 50 to 99738,10037% 100 to 249803,10031% 250+3,218,80019% unknown383,000- Total9,373,90031% Source: HMRC CJRS and PAYE Real Time Information data Note: the number of employments furloughed in the unknown size category is not directly comparable with the number of employers in the equivalent category in table 1a.