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ONS · ASHE resident analysis, 2002 onwards (ONS via Nomis, NM_30_1)

Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence, 2002 to 2023

2023 Final

£35,004a year

Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence, 2002 to 2023 was £35,004 in 2023, up 5.9% (£1,943) from £33,061 in 2022.

▲ 5.9% · +£1,943 against 2022 (previous period)

  1. ONS estimate
  2. 2023
  3. published 29 October 2025
  4. ASHE resident analysis (Nomis)
  5. row “United Kingdom”
  6. column “Annual pay - gross”
  7. cell value 35004

2023 is the highest figure in the published series: £35,004. Rule: highest of the 22 periods published here (2002 to 2023).

The latest year is the largest rise in the published series: up £1,943 from 2022 to 2023. Rule: largest year-on-year increase across the 21 year-on-year changes the series supports.

2002 to 2023

Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence, 2002 to 2023: 2002 to 2023LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservative£0£10k£20k£30k20052010201520202002: £20,376 £ a year · published 29 October 20252003: £21,122 £ a year · published 29 October 20252004: £22,056 £ a year · published 29 October 20252005: £22,888 £ a year · published 29 October 20252006: £23,367 £ a year · published 29 October 20252007: £24,043 £ a year · published 29 October 20252008: £25,165 £ a year · published 29 October 20252009: £25,806 £ a year · published 29 October 20252010: £25,882 £ a year · published 29 October 20252011: £26,095 £ a year · published 29 October 20252012: £26,472 £ a year · published 29 October 20252013: £27,011 £ a year · published 29 October 20252014: £27,215 £ a year · published 29 October 20252015: £27,615 £ a year · published 29 October 20252016: £28,195 £ a year · published 29 October 20252017: £28,759 £ a year · published 29 October 20252018: £29,559 £ a year · published 29 October 20252019: £30,378 £ a year · published 29 October 20252020: £31,487 £ a year · published 29 October 20252021: £31,224 £ a year · published 29 October 20252022: £33,061 £ a year · published 29 October 20252023: £35,004 £ a year · published 29 October 2025
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What this measures

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.

What this doesn’t 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.

Important caveat

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings samples 1% of employee jobs from HMRC PAYE records, with the reference period the pay week or month including a date in April. Figures are for employee jobs held by residents of the area and exclude the self-employed. ONS colour-codes each estimate's quality by its coefficient of variation; estimates for small authorities can carry a coefficient of variation above 10% and should be read as a range, and suppressed cells ("x") are omitted here rather than filled. Provisional figures are revised when the following year's survey is published.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
ONS
Publication
ASHE resident analysis, 2002 onwards (ONS via Nomis, NM_30_1)
Release
ASHE 2025 (Nomis, back series to 2002), published 29 October 2025
Source file
NM_30_1_TYPE432+TYPE499_date=2002-2023_item=2_pay=1,7_sex=8.csv
File SHA-256
d4ab785ff92dffc24e110eaf69ee3ac664837497c6f29bc484d9c04cd6fcb3a0
Retrieved
3 September 2026
Sheet
NM_30_1
Table
ASHE resident analysis (Nomis)
Row
United Kingdom
Column
Annual pay - gross
Cell value
35004
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
£ a year
API
/api/metrics/annual_pay_median_fulltime_2002_2023 · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Conservative 2019–2024£29,5592018£35,0042023↑ 18.4%
Conservative 2017–2019£28,1952016£29,5592018↑ 4.8%
Conservative 2015–2017£27,2152014£28,1952016↑ 3.6%
Coalition 2010–2015£25,8062009£27,2152014↑ 5.5%
Labour 2005–2010£22,0562004£25,8062009↑ 17.0%

Full comparison with chart

Release
ASHE 2025 (Nomis, back series to 2002) · publication page
Last updated
29 October 2025
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)