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ONS · ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence (ONS)

Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence

2025 Provisional

£39,039a year

Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence was £39,039 in 2025, up 4.3% (£1,600) from £37,439 in 2024.

▲ 4.3% · +£1,600 against 2024 (previous period)

  1. ONS estimate
  2. 2025
  3. published 23 October 2025
  4. Table 8.7a
  5. row “United Kingdom”
  6. column “Median”
  7. cell value 39039

2024 to 2025

Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence: 2024 to 2025LabourLabour£0£10k£20k£30k202420252024: £37,439 £ a year · published 23 October 20252025: £39,039 £ a year · published 23 October 2025
Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value

Longer history: 2002 to 2025

Joins Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence, 2002 to 2023 to the current series. The line is broken where the publisher changed method; the two sides are not directly comparable.

Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence: 2002 to 2025LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour£0£10k£20k£30k200520102015202020252002: £20,376 £ a year · published 29 October 20252003: £21,122 £ a year · published 29 October 20252004: £22,056 £ a year · published 29 October 20252005: £22,888 £ a year · published 29 October 20252006: £23,367 £ a year · published 29 October 20252007: £24,043 £ a year · published 29 October 20252008: £25,165 £ a year · published 29 October 20252009: £25,806 £ a year · published 29 October 20252010: £25,882 £ a year · published 29 October 20252011: £26,095 £ a year · published 29 October 20252012: £26,472 £ a year · published 29 October 20252013: £27,011 £ a year · published 29 October 20252014: £27,215 £ a year · published 29 October 20252015: £27,615 £ a year · published 29 October 20252016: £28,195 £ a year · published 29 October 20252017: £28,759 £ a year · published 29 October 20252018: £29,559 £ a year · published 29 October 20252019: £30,378 £ a year · published 29 October 20252020: £31,487 £ a year · published 29 October 20252021: £31,224 £ a year · published 29 October 20252022: £33,061 £ a year · published 29 October 20252023: £35,004 £ a year · published 29 October 20252024: £37,439 £ a year · published 23 October 20252025: £39,039 £ a year · published 23 October 2025
Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value

What this measures

Median gross pay for full-time employee jobs held by people living in the area, from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Table 8.7a), reference April of the year shown. Half of full-time employees resident in the area earn less than this and half earn more.

What this doesn’t measure

Household income: it is pay for one job, before tax, excluding the self-employed, part-time employees and people not in work, and it says nothing about what the area's employers pay to people who commute in.

Important caveat

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings samples 1% of employee jobs from HMRC PAYE records, with the reference period the pay week or month including a date in April. Figures are for employee jobs held by residents of the area and exclude the self-employed. ONS colour-codes each estimate's quality by its coefficient of variation; estimates for small authorities can carry a coefficient of variation above 10% and should be read as a range, and suppressed cells ("x") are omitted here rather than filled. Provisional figures are revised when the following year's survey is published.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
ONS
Publication
ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence (ONS)
Release
2025 provisional, published 23 October 2025
Source file
PROV - Home Geography Table 8.7a Annual pay - Gross 2025.xlsx
File SHA-256
a38f3eaf4098dc40afdbe14097c4ec8318cba62be3f10bbf94e7e6d3f50c05fe
Retrieved
3 September 2026
Sheet
Full-Time
Table
Table 8.7a
Row
United Kingdom
Column
Median
Cell value
39039
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
£ a year
API
/api/metrics/annual_pay_median_fulltime · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

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Release
2025 provisional · publication page
Last updated
23 October 2025
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)