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.

Earnings and employment statistics from Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI), UK, NUTS 1, 2 and 3 areas and local authorities, monthly, non-seasonally adjusted. These are official statistics in development.

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The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on A Vision of Britain webpages, where users can browse the database's documentation system online.

The Great Britain Historical GIS Project has also produced digitised boundary data, which can be obtained from the UK Data Service Census Support service. Further information is available at census.ukdataservice.ac.uk

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The Great Britain Historical Database is a large database of British nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics. Where practical the referencing of spatial units has been integrated, data for different dates have been assembled into single tables.

The Great Britain Historical Database currently contains :

• Statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports, 1851-1861
  
• Employment statistics from the census, 1841-1931
  
• Demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931
  
• Mortality statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1861-1920
  
• Marriage statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1841-1870
  
• Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918
  
• Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ), 1863-1912
  
• Official poor law statistics, 1859-1915 and 1919-1939
  
• Wage statistics, 1845-1906
  
• Hours of work statistics, 1900-1913
  
• Small debt statistics from county courts, 1847-1913 and 1938
  

There are two tables in this part of the Great Britain Historical Database :

Wages holds wage statistics gathered by the Board of Trade Labour Department for 24 occupations in 87 towns from 1845 to 1906. Not all towns appear for all occupations.

Minedays holds monthly data on hours worked in coal-mining for between 17 and 20 coalfields from January 1900 to December 1913.

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has sought consent from individuals to publish the names and salaries of those staff earning a full-time salary over £60,000 (the Senior Civil Service minimum as at 31 March 2014 - previous releases were for salaries over the relevant minimum at time of publication). The Department recently published an updated Local Government Transparency Code 2014 which covers local authorities in England. The full Local Government Transparency Code 2014 can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-transparency-code-2014 To view the names and salaries of staff in DCLG please see the publications below or the information as published on the DCLG website here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-communities-and-local-government/series/senior-dclg-employee-salaries

Annual data on Civil Service employment in the UK, showing the relationship between the salary of the highest-paid employee and median salary of all employees for each department.

In the three months to December 2024, average weekly earnings in the United Kingdom grew by 5.9 percent, while pay including bonuses also grew by six percent, when compared with the same period in 2023. In the same month, the inflation rate for the Consumer Price Index was 2.5 percent, indicating that wages were rising faster than prices that month. Average salaries in the UK In 2024, the average salary for full-time workers in the UK was 37,430 British pounds a year, up from 34,963 in the previous year. In London, the average annual salary was far higher than the rest of the country, at 47,455 pounds per year, compared with just 32,960 in North East England. There also still exists a noticeable gender pay gap in the UK, which was seven percent for full-time workers in 2024, down from 7.5 percent in 2023. Lastly, the monthly earnings of the top one percent in the UK was 15,887 pounds as of November 2024, far higher than even that of the average for the top five percent, who earned 7,641 pounds per month, while pay for the lowest 10 percent of earners was just 805 pounds per month. Waves of industrial action in the UK One of the main consequences of high inflation and low wage growth throughout 2022 and 2023 was an increase in industrial action in the UK. In December 2022, for example, there were approximately 830,000 working days lost due to labor disputes. Throughout this month, workers across various industry sectors were involved in industrial disputes, such as nurses, train drivers, and driving instructors. Many of the workers who took part in strikes were part of the UK's public sector, which saw far weaker wage growth than that of the private sector throughout 2022. Widespread industrial action continued into 2023, with approximately 303,000 workers involved in industrial disputes in March 2023. There was far less industrial action by 2024, however, due to settlements in many of the disputes, although some are ongoing as of 2025.

Calculation and reporting of monthly pay. Personal, financial & employment details.

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 Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency, issued by the Department for Communities & Local Government in September 2011, set out a number of principles for local authorities which were intended to underpin best practice in the creation of greater transparency through the publication of public data. One of the key requirements was the publication of senior employee salaries above £58,200 together with names, job descriptions, responsibilities and budgets.

View senior staff salaries for the GLA, together with links to job descriptions.

A departmental organisation chart (PDF) is also available.

It should be noted that the Code provided for individuals to be given the option to refuse consent for their name to be published and, where the name is given as 'withheld', this is because the individual concerned has expressly refused consent for their name to be included.

The CSV file of the senior staff data is a basic format spreadsheet which permits analysis of the data.

Organogram (organisation chart) showing all staff roles. Names and salaries are also listed for the Senior Civil Servants. Organogram data is released by all central government departments and their agencies. The published data is validated and released in CSV format and OGL-licensed for reuse. Salary costs reflect salaries as at 31 October however a pay award has since been announced which is backdated to 1 August

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The Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey (MWSS) is the main source of information for three key indicators of Short-Term Earnings generated by the Office for National Statistics: the Average Earnings Index, the Average Weekly Earnings and the Index of Labour Costs per Hour.

The MWSS is distributed monthly to approximately 8,800 businesses and covers around 12.8 million employees. Companies are required to respond under the Statistics of Trade Act 1947. Businesses are selected from the Inter-Departmental Business Register. Every company with more than 1,000 employees is surveyed. Sampling is random for businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees. The MWSS does not cover businesses with fewer than 20 employees, and so the very smallest businesses in the economy are not represented. The self-employed and government-supported trainees are also not surveyed.

The major strength of the MWSS is that it provides comprehensive information on earnings, by industry. In terms of industrial coverage, information on all industries is collected, as defined by the Standard Industrial Classifications (1992). Information on both the public and private sectors is available.

Linking to other business studies
These data contain Inter-Departmental Business Register reference numbers. These are anonymous but unique reference numbers assigned to business organisations. Their inclusion allows researchers to combine different business survey sources together. Researchers may consider applying for other business data to assist their research.

Latest edition information
For the forty-second edition (February 2025), four monthly data files for July to October 2024 have been added to the study.

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The survey measures commission, bonuses, overtime and pay award arrears, in addition to pay. The survey also collects data on the number of employees on the payroll. The measures are the sums for each company, and are not subdivided by occupation or by individual workers. The survey excludes redundancy payments and benefits in kind.

The data files have been processed to include average weekly pay data and all of the processing variables such as grossing factors and grossed values.

This statistic shows the salary premium for experienced big data professionals in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014. The average UK big data salary, especially in the London area, was of 55,000 British pounds in 2014.

Salary details for Colchester's Chief Executive and senior officers.

Pay is shown in £5,000 bandings as per the Data Transparency code.

The full pay policy can be found at the following link: http://colchester.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=5934&p=0

The full statement of accounts including more information about payments can be found at the following link: http://colchester.gov.uk/article/11907/Statement-of-Accounts---Colchester-Borough-Council

An organisation chart detailing the top 3 levels of the Council and their responsibilities can be found in the 'Organisation Chart' schema.

Imformation about current vacancies can be found in the 'Current Job Vacancies' schema.

Under the Data Transparency Code, we are required to update this information on an annual basis. The information used is the same as that included in the Council's Annual Statement of Accounts which is published by end September each year. This schema will be updated within 1 month of this date.

Wages in Manufacturing in the United Kingdom increased to 776 GBP/Week in January from 769 GBP/Week in December of 2024. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Average Weekly Wages in Manufacturing - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

This survey shows the advertised annual salary for big data jobs in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2013. The average advertised salary rose from 52,500 British pounds in 2010 to 55,000 pounds in 2013.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on A Vision of Britain webpages, where users can browse the database's documentation system online. Main Topics: Wage rates in 24 occupations in 87 towns 1845-1906. Purposive selection/case studies Transcription of existing materials Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) estimates of employees from UK, EU and rest of the world, by UK region, seasonally adjusted. Ad hoc monthly data, nationality determined using the Migrant Worker Scan. Experimental Statistics.