Salary Information

Release date:
3 November 2015

You asked

Please could you provide:

  • The median annual taxed salary of a person living in the United Kingdom. 2011, .., 2014.
    2013 is most important.

  • The median annual taxed general income of a person living in the United Kingdom. 2011, .., 2014.
    2013 is most important.

  • The median annual salary of a British policeman. 2011, .., 2014.
    2013 is most important.

We said

Thank you for your query.

Referring to your first and third questions, the best source for this information is ONS's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is based on a 1% sample of jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records and is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. Published ASHE reference tables for 2013 can be found via the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2013-12-12/relateddata

Median gross annual earnings for employee jobs by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) can be found in spreadsheet Table 14.7a within the Table 14 zip file. This information is given separately for senior police officers (SOC code 1172), police officers (sergeant and below) (SOC code 3312) and police community support officers (SOC code 3315). Breakdowns by different combinations of sex and full-time/part-time status are provided in the nine worksheets. Median gross annual earnings for all employee jobs in the UK are provided in the top 'All employees' row of each worksheet.

The equivalent information for the other years you are interested in can be found via the following links:

Please note that ASHE annual earnings estimates are for financial years; so, for example, the 2013 data is for the year ending 5 April 2013.

Regarding your second question, ONS do not publish information on personal income, only household-level income. However, HM Revenue and Custom's Survey of Personal Incomes provides information on individuals liable to UK Income Tax and their incomes. The latest statistics were published on 30 January 2015 and relate to the tax year 2012/13. A table showing percentile points, including the median, for total income before and after tax is published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-income-by-tax-year

You may also be interested to know that DWP publish a Households Below Average Income (HBAI) report, based on data from the Family Resources Survey, which includes estimates for equivalised household disposable income in the UK, both before and after housing costs. Income measures used in HBAI are adjusted to take into account variations in the size and composition of the households in which people live, taking an adult couple with no children as the reference point. This process is known as ‘equivilisation’ and reflects the fact that a family of several people needs a higher income than a single individual in order for them to enjoy a comparable standard of living. Estimates for median equivalised household disposable income before housing costs for the financial years 2010/11 through 2013/14 (the most recent data) are published as weekly amounts in 2013/14 prices in Table 2b on page 31 of the most recent HBAI report, available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-19941995-to-20132014

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