{"metric":"annual_pay_median_fulltime_2002_2023","title":"Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence, 2002 to 2023","topic":"work","unit":"£ a year","measure_type":"estimate","geography":"K02000001","comparison_method":"previous_period","latest":{"period_start":"2023-01-01","period_end":"2023-12-31","period_label":"2023","value":35004,"status":"final","vintage":"2025-10-29"},"comparison":{"period_label":"2022","value":33061,"vintage":"2025-10-29"},"source":{"publisher":"ONS","publication":"ASHE resident analysis, 2002 onwards (ONS via Nomis, NM_30_1)","landing_url":"https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/asher","sheet":"NM_30_1","table":"ASHE resident analysis (Nomis)","row":"United Kingdom","column":"Annual pay - gross","raw_value":"35004","file_url":"https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/api/v01/dataset/NM_30_1.data.csv?geography=TYPE432,TYPE499&measures=20100&date=2002-2023&sex=8&item=2&pay=1,7","file_sha256":"d4ab785ff92dffc24e110eaf69ee3ac664837497c6f29bc484d9c04cd6fcb3a0","release_date":"2025-10-29","release_label":"ASHE 2025 (Nomis, back series to 2002)"},"definition":"Median gross pay for full-time employee jobs held by people living in the area, reference April of the year shown, from the ASHE resident analysis held by Nomis. The same statistic as the modern series, carried back to 2002 on current local authority boundaries; it stops in 2023, where the published Table 8.7a series the site reads begins.","does_not_measure":"Household income: it is pay for one job, before tax, excluding the self-employed, part-time employees and people not in work. Nor does it measure what employers in the area pay to people who commute in.","links":{"page":"/work/annual-pay-median-full-time-2002-2023","series":"/api/metrics/annual_pay_median_fulltime_2002_2023/series","vintages":"/api/metrics/annual_pay_median_fulltime_2002_2023/vintages"}}