The median annual earnings in the United Kingdom was 37,430 British pounds per year in 2024. Annual earnings varied significantly by region, ranging from 47,455 pounds in London to 32,960 pounds in the North East. Along with London, two other areas of the UK had median annual earnings above the UK average; South East England, and Scotland, at 39,038 pounds and 38,315 pounds respectively. Regional Inequality in the UK Various other indicators highlight the degree of regional inequality in the UK, especially between London and the rest of the country. Productivity in London, as measured by output per hour, was 33.2 percent higher than the UK average. By comparison, every other UK region, except the South East, fell below the UK average for productivity. In gross domestic product per head, London was also an outlier. The average GDP per head in the UK was 31,947 pounds in 2021, but for London it was 56,431 pounds. Again, the South East's GDP per head was slightly above the UK average, with every other region below it. Within London itself, there is also a great degree of inequality. In 2021, for example, the average earnings in the historic City of London borough were 1,138 pounds per week, compared with 588 pounds in Redbridge, a borough in the North East of London. Wages finally catch up with inflation in 2023 After the initial economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic subsided, wages began to steadily grow in the UK. This reached a peak in June 2021, when weekly wages for regular pay were growing at 7.3 percent, or 5.2 percent when adjusted for inflation. By that November, however, prices began to rise faster than wage growth, with inflation surging throughout 2022. In October 2022, for example, while regular pay was growing by 6.1 percent, the inflation rate had surged to 11.1 percent, Although inflation peaked in that month, it wasn't until June 2023 that wages started to outpace inflation. By this point, the damage caused by high energy and food inflation has precipitated the worst Cost of Living Crisis in the UK for a generation.

The median annual earnings for full-time employees in the United Kingdom was approximately 37,430 British pounds in 2024, compared with 34,963 pounds in the previous year. At the start of the provided time period, in 1999, the average full-time salary in the UK was 17,803 pounds per year, with median earnings exceeding 20,000 pounds per year in 2002, and 30,000 by 2019. Wages continue to grow faster than inflation in 2024 Between November 2021 and July 2023 inflation was higher than wage growth in the UK, with wages still outpacing inflation as of April 2024. At the peak of the recent wave of high inflation in October 2022, the CPI inflation rate reached a 41-year-high of 11.1 percent, wages were growing much slower at 6.1 percent. Since that peak, inflation remained persistently high for several months, only dropping below double figures in April 2023, when inflation was 8.7 percent, down from 10.1 percent in the previous month. For 2023 as a whole, the average annual rate of inflation was 7.3 percent but is forecast to fall to 2.2 percent in 2024, and 1.5 percent in 2025. Highest and lowest-paid occupations As of 2023, the highest-paid occupation in the UK was that of Chief Executives and Senior Officials, who had an average weekly pay of approximately, 1,576 pounds. By contrast, the lowest-paid occupation that year was that of retail cashiers, and check-out operators, who earned approximately 383 pounds a week. For industry sectors as a whole, people who worked full-time in the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply sector had the highest average earnings, at 955 pounds a week, compared with 505 pounds a week in the accommodation and food services sector, the lowest average earnings in 2023.

During the 2022/23 Premier League football season, Manchester United paid the highest average salary to players throughout the year, at 7.19 million British pounds. The second highest average annual salary in the Premier League for the season was paid by Manchester City, with 6.79 million British pounds on average. Which football league has the highest revenue?   England, with its Premier League, is one of the Big Five, the top tier football leagues of England, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. Out of this group, England has had the highest and fastest growing revenue over the past 20 years, projected to reach 7.1 billion euros in 2023, followed by Spain with 3.7 billion euros.

The statistic depicts the average annual first-team player salary of Manchester United in the English Premier League in the United Kingdom (UK) from season 2014/15 to 2019/20. In 2019/2020, the average annual pay of first-team players in the Manchester United football club in the Premier League was approximately 6.13 million British pounds.

The average weekly wage in Greater Manchester was 637 British pounds in 2022, compared with 598 pounds in the previous year.

The statistic depicts the average annual first-team player salary of Manchester City in the English Premier League in the United Kingdom (UK) from season 2014/15 to 2019/20. In 2019/2020, the average annual pay of first-team players in the Manchester City football club in the Premier League was approximately seven million British pounds, showing an increase over the past four seasons of roughly one million British pounds.

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The aim of this project was to create a synthetic dataset without using the original (secure, controlled) dataset to do so, and instead using only publicly available analytical output (i.e. output that was cleared for publication) to create the synthetic data. Such synthetic data may allow users to gain familiarity with and practise on data that is like the original before they gain access to the original data (where time in a secure setting may be limited).

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2011 and Census 2011: Synthetic Data was created without access to the original ASHE-2011 Census dataset (which is only available in a secure setting via the ONS Secure Research Service: "Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings linked to 2011 Census - England and Wales"). It was created as a teaching aid to support a training course "An Introduction to the linked ASHE-2011 Census dataset" organised by Administrative Data Research UK and the National Centre for Research Methods. The synthetic dataset contains a subset of the variables in the original dataset and was designed to reproduce the analytical output contained in the ASHE-Census 2011 Data Linkage User Guide.

Variables available in this study relate to synthetic employment, earnings and demographic information for adults employed in England and Wales in 2011.

In the 2023/24 season, Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne was the highest paid player in the Premier League, earning an estimated annual salary of over 20 million British pounds. De Bruyne's teammate Erling Haaland ranked second, with an annual salary of around 19.5 million British pounds.

Based on their trophy cabinet alone, Manchester United are one of the most successful football clubs in Premier League history. In fact, the Red Devils are the team with the most English football titles, having won 20 in total. Off the pitch, the club generated a total revenue of 771 million euros in the 2023/24 season. Additionally, they also had one of the highest team brand values as of 2023. How much do Manchester United spend? Competing in a league as competitive as the Premier League can incur significant costs for football clubs. In the 2022/23 season, Manchester United was the club with the highest average annual salary of players in the Premier League, with the club paying just over seven million British pounds on average. Moreover, Manchester United was also the Premier League club with the largest net spend on transfers between 2012 and 2022, spending over one billion euros more than they received. How much does the Premier League earn from broadcasting? Since its inception in 1992, the Premier League has been able to attract lucrative sponsorship deals and partnerships with broadcasters both domestically and abroad. In the 2021/22 season alone, the estimated broadcasting rights fees of the Premier League amounted to approximately 3.64 billion euros. Meanwhile, the total value of Premier League media rights amounted to around 12.85 billion U.S. dollars for the three-year period between 2022 and 2025.