Cost of living · ONS · Latest published: 2025
Median annual pay, full-time employees by local authority, ranked
Every area with a published figure, in order of median annual pay, £, highest first, because this layer states that higher is better. Equal figures share a rank and are printed as ties; the order within a tie is alphabetical and means nothing.
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How this ranking is made
Median annual pay, £: the published figure for the area, unchanged.. Median gross annual pay of full-time employees by the local authority they live in, from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Table 8, place of residence). The middle earner: half of full-time employees living in the area earn more, half less.
Source: ONS: ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence · 2025 provisional, released 2025-10-23. Boundaries: 2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2. Percentiles are calculated across the whole UK, so they do not change when the table is filtered to one nation. A ranking compares areas of very different sizes and populations; the figure is the publisher’s own, and its rank is Civometry’s ordering of those published figures.