Standing view · pay · Forest of Dean
improving, held with established confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2025.
Median hourly pay in Forest of Dean was £15.73 in 2024, and in 2025 was recorded at £19.65 on one published basis and £16.43 on another. The lowest quarter of earners was £12.58 in 2024, and in 2025 was £15.36 on the first basis and £14.19 on the second, with the lowest tenth at £13.05. Household income per head rose to £22,925 in 2024. Two pay bases are published for the district and they differ substantially, so the level here depends on which is used.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Forest of Dean. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Household income per head | 2024 | improving |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| 25 percentile | 2024 | — |
| Median | 2024 | — |
| 10 percentile | 2025 | — |
| 25 percentile | 2025 | — |
| Median | 2025 | — |
| 25 percentile | 2025 | — |
| Median | 2025 | — |