What is the average UK salary?
Typical (median) full-time pay in the UK is £767 a week, about £39,900 a year before tax (2025). Half of full-time employees earn more than this and half earn less.
UK median for full-time employees, 2025, before tax.
The weekly figure times 52, rounded. Not the same as a salary survey of job adverts.
A week in Hampstead and Highgate, for full-time workers who live there.
Pay over time
What’s this?
The middle weekly pay, before tax, of people working full time: half earn more, half earn less. Cash terms, not adjusted for prices.
What it cannot tell you: It is the middle of people working full time, so it leaves out part-time workers and people without a job. It is before tax and not adjusted for prices.
What’s this?
The same pay series, with earlier years scaled up by price rises so that every year is shown in 2025 money. It shows whether pay has risen faster than prices.
What it cannot tell you: It uses one price index for everyone, but people's own cost of living differs. It is still before tax.
Typical pay by area
Full-time workers who live in each of the 631 parliamentary constituencies. Find your own area →
Highest ten
| Area | Weekly pay | Yearly, roughly |
|---|---|---|
| Hampstead and Highgate | £1,167 | £60,700 |
| St Albans | £1,155 | £60,100 |
| Wimbledon | £1,150 | £59,800 |
| Harpenden and Berkhamsted | £1,136 | £59,100 |
| Poplar and Limehouse | £1,102 | £57,300 |
| Twickenham | £1,080 | £56,200 |
| Islington South and Finsbury | £1,080 | £56,100 |
| Cities of London and Westminster | £1,066 | £55,400 |
| Richmond Park | £1,062 | £55,200 |
| Tooting | £1,051 | £54,700 |
Lowest ten
| Area | Weekly pay | Yearly, roughly |
|---|---|---|
| Leicester East | £603 | £31,400 |
| Nottingham South | £605 | £31,500 |
| Boston and Skegness | £606 | £31,500 |
| Isle of Wight East | £614 | £31,900 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West | £614 | £31,900 |
| St Ives | £616 | £32,000 |
| Bradford East | £622 | £32,400 |
| Kingston upon Hull East | £625 | £32,500 |
| Stockton North | £626 | £32,600 |
| Bishop Auckland | £627 | £32,600 |
Questions people ask
What is the average salary in the UK?
The median full-time wage is about £39,900 a year (£767 a week) before tax, in 2025. The median is the middle value, which is usually lower than the mean because a few very high earners pull the mean up.
What is the difference between the median and the mean?
The median is the pay of the person in the middle if everyone is lined up from lowest to highest. The mean adds everything up and divides by the number of people, so it is pulled up by high earners.
Has pay kept up with prices?
Between 2002 and 2025, typical full-time pay rose 96% in cash terms while prices rose 86%. Try the prices tool →
Does this include part-time workers?
No. The figure is for full-time employees only, so it is higher than pay across all workers.
What is the average salary where I live?
See the tables above or look up your constituency. The area figure is for full-time workers who live there, from the ONS.
Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (2025), via Nomis. Updated every night.
See also: Inflation · What was my money worth? · Where does my tax go? · Compare your area