Median annual pay, full-time employees by local authority

Highest areas

Lowest areas

Ranked by median annual pay, £, 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 (median annual pay, £), Latest published: 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.

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Source and method

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

the published figure for the area, unchanged

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

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