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Measure · Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - workplace analysis

Median

Gross hourly pay before tax for full-time employees, in the pay period covering a set date in April.

Published byONS
SeriesAnnual Survey of Hours and Earnings - workplace analysis
How oftenAnnual
Basissurvey
CoversApril 30, 1997 to April 30, 2025 (29 periods)
Geographiescountry, county_ua, lad, parliamentary_constituency, region
Areas held1208, of which 3 withheld (0.2%)
LicenceOGL-UK-3.0

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Each of these is measured from the data rather than written down, so it stays true as the data changes.

3 of 1208 areas are withheld by the producer. Most commonly: These figures are suppressed as statistically unreliable

The producer's documentation

Harvested from ONS, not written by us. We link rather than copy: the methodology belongs on their page, where it stays current.

correctionnotice · 12 March 2026

Correction notice, 2026-03-12

An error has been identified in Table 9 of our Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings time series of selected estimates dataset. This affects the percentage annual change of median gross weekly earnings for the private sector from 2021 to 2025. We apologise for this error which has now been corrected.

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Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) methodology and guidance

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datasetpage · 22 October 2025

Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings time series of selected estimates

Selected annual estimates of earnings and paid hours worked by UK employees using ASHE data from 1997 to 2025.

sourcemetadata · 3 November 2025

Nomis dataset NM_99_1

annual survey of hours and earnings - workplace analysis

contact

Contact: Earnings Helpline

Others in this series

A definition is often only clear beside its siblings.

MeasureWhat it counts
10 percentile the gross hourly rate a tenth of full-time employees earn less than
25 percentile the gross hourly rate a quarter of full-time employees earn less than
75 percentile the gross hourly rate three quarters of full-time employees earn less than
90 percentile the gross hourly rate nine in ten full-time employees earn less than

Latest figures

AreaValuePeriod
Aberafan Maesteg 19.0 2025
Aberdeen City 21.5 2025
Aberdeen North 22.1 2025
Aberdeen South 20.7 2025
Aberdeenshire 19.9 2025
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East 16.8 2025
Adur 19.2 2025
Airdrie and Shotts 17.4 2025
Aldershot 20.6 2025
Aldridge-Brownhills 17.3 2025
Alloa and Grangemouth 20.2 2025
Altrincham and Sale West 20.4 2025