Earnings overview

Full-time employee jobs on adult rates, held for more than a year, in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Annual gross earnings cover the tax year ending 5 April 2025 and can include bonuses and overtime. This is a comparison with jobs, not every person in the UK, and excludes self-employment.

Full-time means more than 30 paid hours a week, or 25 or more for teaching professions. A part-time salary is not a like-for-like comparison. Regional results use workplace location, not residence, and do not measure purchasing power.

If your salary falls between the published 60th and 70th percentile thresholds, we show the 60th–70th percentile band. Above P90, the additional ONS release supplies one-percentile steps where quality allows. The UK P99 threshold is £186,840, so £250,000 supports a top-1% band. We do not infer an exact rank or estimate beyond P99.

Regions have different quality limits. London’s last usable point is P97 (£207,988), so £250,000 supports “Top 3%; finer rank unavailable”. Its P98 has a 32.8% coefficient of variation and P99 has no usable CV, so neither is included. Below P10 we retain the open-ended lower band.

A smooth guide connects published thresholds; it does not estimate an exact personal percentile. Unavailable points are not bridged. Auto view focuses on P90–P100 only when all selected salaries reach that region’s P90; otherwise it shows the whole distribution. Map colours represent supported lower bounds, not precise rankings, population density or cost of living. A salary's benchmark position is based on gross earnings before pension deductions.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023.

ASHE 2025 is provisional. The core tables were released 23 October 2025; the P90–P99 regional release followed on 4 November 2025. Data checked on 17 October 2026, before publication of ASHE 2026. Benchmarks are not adjusted for inflation.

A full year in one job, with monthly pay, the standard Personal Allowance and category A National Insurance. Income Tax is an annual-liability estimate; National Insurance and loan deductions use monthly thresholds. Actual payroll and tax codes can differ. No benefits in kind, other income, Child Benefit charge, pension tax charges or relief-at-source calculation is included.

Auto-enrolment assumes full-year enrolment, using 5% employee and 3% employer on monthly qualifying earnings of £520–£4,189. Eligibility is not checked. Custom pension percentages use full reference salary. Choose your actual scheme's payment method; salary sacrifice and net pay can produce different results.

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