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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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#	Area	£/year	UK percentile
1	Shetland Islands S12000027	£46,527	90
2	East Renfrewshire S12000011	£46,279	90
3	East Dunbartonshire S12000045	£44,763	85
4	Aberdeenshire S12000034	£43,656	80
5	Stirling S12000030	£43,559	78
6	Orkney Islands S12000023	£43,430	78
7	City of Edinburgh S12000036	£43,169	76
8	South Ayrshire S12000028	£43,076	76
9	Midlothian S12000019	£41,189	67
10	South Lanarkshire S12000029	£41,126	66
11	North Lanarkshire S12000050	£41,070	66
12	North Ayrshire S12000021	£40,312	62
13	West Lothian S12000040	£40,134	62
14	Aberdeen City S12000033	£40,020	61
15	West Dunbartonshire S12000039	£40,011	61
16	Perth and Kinross S12000048	£39,934	60
17	Highland S12000017	£39,740	59
18	Renfrewshire S12000038	£39,734	58
19	Argyll and Bute S12000035	£39,010	54
20	Fife S12000047	£38,913	54
21	East Lothian S12000010	£38,714	52
22	Falkirk S12000014	£38,432	49
23	Glasgow City S12000049	£38,125	47
24	East Ayrshire S12000008	£37,968	45
25	Angus S12000041	£37,291	38
26	Inverclyde S12000018	£36,650	32
27	Clackmannanshire S12000005	£36,259	29
28	Dumfries and Galloway S12000006	£34,895	17
29	Dundee City S12000042	£34,860	16
30	Moray S12000020	£33,943	9
31	Scottish Borders S12000026	£33,600	7
32	Na h-Eileanan Siar S12000013	£33,442	7

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.

Shetland Islands has the highest median annual pay, £ of 32 Scotland local authorities with a published figure, at £46,527 (Latest published: 2025). Source: ONS: ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence.

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