Who are we? · Work · UK, nations, regions and council areas
What do we earn, and how many of us are in work?
Half of full-time employees in the UK earned more than £811 a week before tax in April 2026, and half earned less (provisional). Compare pay where people live, and employment, across the nations, regions and council areas.
Evidence last reviewed 31 October 2026
What do full-time employees earn?
- United Kingdom£811
- North East£733
- North West£766
- Yorkshire and The Humber£750
- East Midlands£754
- West Midlands£767
- East£858
- London£967
- South East£866
- South West£783
- Wales£756
- Scotland£825
- Northern Ireland£761
This counts full-time employee jobs, not people, and leaves out the self-employed. It is grouped by where employees live, not where they work. April 2026 figures are provisional and will be revised next year.
| Council area | Median a week | Precision |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford UA | £862.4 | precise |
| Central Bedfordshire UA | £903.2 | precise |
| Luton UA | £706.3 | precise |
| Peterborough UA | £728.0 | precise |
| Southend-on-Sea UA | £859.8 | reasonably precise |
| Thurrock UA | £875.9 | precise |
| Cambridge | £942.0 | precise |
| East Cambridgeshire | £862.8 | reasonably precise |
| Fenland | £727.9 | reasonably precise |
| Huntingdonshire | £839.7 | precise |
| South Cambridgeshire | £995.3 | precise |
| Basildon | £877.6 | reasonably precise |
| Braintree | £873.9 | reasonably precise |
| Brentwood | £1,147.4 | reasonably precise |
| Castle Point | £840.7 | reasonably precise |
| Chelmsford | £914.0 | precise |
| Colchester | £804.9 | reasonably precise |
| Epping Forest | £969.5 | reasonably precise |
| Harlow | £752.1 | reasonably precise |
| Maldon | £920.6 | use with caution |
| Rochford | £931.3 | reasonably precise |
| Tendring | £757.7 | reasonably precise |
| Uttlesford | £1,006.2 | reasonably precise |
| Broxbourne | £920.2 | reasonably precise |
| Dacorum | £919.1 | reasonably precise |
| East Hertfordshire | £989.7 | reasonably precise |
| Hertsmere | £911.3 | reasonably precise |
| North Hertfordshire | £1,020.1 | reasonably precise |
| St Albans | £1,160.7 | reasonably precise |
| Stevenage | £913.0 | reasonably precise |
| Three Rivers | £907.4 | reasonably precise |
| Watford | £861.5 | reasonably precise |
| Welwyn Hatfield | £975.7 | precise |
| Breckland | £766.7 | precise |
| Broadland | £786.3 | reasonably precise |
| Great Yarmouth | £724.1 | precise |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk | £774.4 | precise |
| North Norfolk | £692.4 | reasonably precise |
| Norwich | £728.2 | precise |
| South Norfolk | £851.8 | reasonably precise |
| Babergh | £785.8 | reasonably precise |
| Ipswich | £732.5 | precise |
| Mid Suffolk | £857.5 | precise |
| East Suffolk | £795.7 | precise |
| West Suffolk | £804.2 | precise |
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ONS marks unreliable or disclosive estimates "x"; they are shown as suppressed. CV is the coefficient of variation of the median from table 8.1b. Precision bands follow the coefficient of variation: up to 5% precise, up to 10% reasonably precise, above that use with caution.
- ASHE Table 8: earnings and hours worked, place of residence by local authority — 8.1a/8.1b Weekly pay - Gross. ONS. Edition: 2026provisional. Published 2025-10-22. Retrieved 2026-10-31. Exact file or query. Open Government Licence v3.0.
How many people aged 16 to 64 are in work?
- United Kingdom75.5%
Range of likely values: 75.2% to 75.8%
- England75.8%
Range of likely values: 75.5% to 76.1%
- Wales73.3%
Range of likely values: 72.4% to 74.2%
- Scotland74.4%
Range of likely values: 73.5% to 75.3%
- Northern Ireland73.7%
Range of likely values: 72.4% to 75.0%
The survey behind these figures has had falling response rates, and ONS has warned that its estimates are less reliable than they were. Treat small differences between nations with care.
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Annual Population Survey via Nomis. "confidence" is the published 95% confidence interval half-width in percentage points. ONS has published quality concerns about the LFS/APS.
- Annual Population Survey: employment rate aged 16-64, UK and countries — NM_17_5 variable 45. ONS (Annual Population Survey via Nomis). Retrieved 2026-10-31. Exact file or query. Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Earnings of the self-employed (not covered by this survey), and pay by where people work rather than live.
Built from official tables and checked by automated tests; it has not yet had independent analytical review. About these numbers.