ONS · Change over 12 months: 2024 to 2025 · Local authority
Median annual pay, full-time employees by local authority
Median gross annual pay of full-time employees by the local authority they live in, from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Table 8, place of residence). The middle earner: half of full-time employees living in the area earn more, half less.
Wealden
+19.0%Change in median pay on the previous survey year, per cent
Median full-time pay in Wealden changed by +19.0% over the year (Change over 12 months: 2024 to 2025), compared with +4.3% for United Kingdom median, 2024 to 2025 — the 4th highest of 348 areas with a published figure.
- Area
- Wealden (E07000065)
- Change in median pay on the previous survey year, per cent
- +19.0%
- United Kingdom median, 2024 to 2025
- +4.3%
- Rank
- the 4th highest of 348 areas with a published figure
- Percentile
- 99% of areas with a figure are below it
- Period
- Change over 12 months: 2024 to 2025
- Release
- 2025 provisional, released 2025-10-23
- Published by
- ONS
- Status
- Civometry calculation on published figures
Median full-time pay in Wealden changed by +19.0% over the year (Change over 12 months: 2024 to 2025), compared with +4.3% for United Kingdom median, 2024 to 2025 — the 4th highest of 348 areas with a published figure. Civometry calculation using ONS figures.
Most improved areas
Most worsened areas
| # | Area | change |
|---|---|---|
| 348 | Na h-Eileanan Siar · profile | −16.5% |
| 347 | Malvern Hills · profile | −12.1% |
| 346 | Mole Valley · profile | −11.0% |
| 345 | Surrey Heath · profile | −9.2% |
| 344 | Isle of Wight · profile | −8.0% |
| 343 | Babergh · profile | −7.9% |
| 342 | Clackmannanshire · profile | −6.2% |
| 341 | Arun · profile | −5.7% |
| 340 | Brentwood · profile | −5.1% |
| 339 | Woking · profile | −4.9% |
All 348 areas, ranked
Ranked by change in median pay on the previous survey year, per cent, highest first; ties in alphabetical order. Areas without a value are not ranked.
What this map shows
348 of 348 local authority areas have a current value for median annual pay, full-time employees (change in median pay on the previous survey year, per cent), Change over 12 months: 2024 to 2025. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.
The published median for all full-time employee jobs held by residents of the area.
Take the data
Embed (static map with title, period, official source and a link back):
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- Data
- ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence (ONS) (ONS).
- Denominator
- None (a published median per area). Percentiles rank the areas with a value for the newest survey year. ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence (ONS).
- Boundaries
- ONS Open Geography Portal generalised boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0 (2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2).
- Basemap
- Ordnance Survey Maps API (Light), used under the OS Data Hub terms.
- Formula
- (newest value − value twelve months earlier) ÷ value twelve months earlier × 100, both as published
- Stale areas
- An area whose newest published value is for an earlier period than the newest any area carries is shown as no current data, with both periods named. Nothing is carried forward.
- Method
- Methodology
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