UK salary percentile calculator
Enter your yearly salary before tax to see where it ranks among full-time employee jobs in the UK, a nation or an English region. The figures are from the Office for National Statistics for 2026.
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What the percentile means
A percentile is a point in a pay distribution. The 50th percentile is the median: half of the reported full-time employee jobs paid less, and half paid more. The calculator estimates a position between the percentile cut-offs ONS publishes, using straight-line interpolation, so treat the result as an indication rather than an exact rank.
The data only gives cut-offs from the 10th to the 90th percentile. Below that range, or above it, the calculator shows which side of the published limits your salary falls on instead of guessing an exact rank.
About the figures
The comparison uses the Office for National Statistics’ 2026 provisional Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 3.7a, “Annual pay - Gross”, for full-time employee jobs. These annual estimates cover employees on adult rates who had been in the same job for more than a year. Figures may be revised in a later edition.
The table provides a United Kingdom figure, figures for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and figures for each of the nine English regions. It does not provide a separate England-wide percentile in this table. This is gross pay for employee jobs, not household income, self-employment income or take-home pay.
View the ONS ASHE Table 3 data and notes. For take-home pay after Income Tax, National Insurance and optional pension or student loan deductions, use the take-home pay calculator.
Questions
What is the median UK salary?
For full-time employee jobs the median is £40,911 a year before tax, from the ONS 2026 provisional figures. The mean is £52,109. The mean is higher because a small number of very high salaries pull it up. The median is the middle salary, so half of jobs pay less.
Is this before or after tax?
Before tax. The figures are gross pay, before Income Tax, National Insurance and pension. To see what a salary leaves you, use the take-home pay calculator.
Does it include part-time workers?
No. The figures cover full-time employee jobs only. They do not cover part-time jobs or the self-employed.
Is this household income?
No. It is one person's pay from one job. It does not add up the pay of everyone in a household.
What salary is in the top 10%?
In the UK, a full-time salary above £82,680 is in the top 10%. That is the 90th percentile figure. ONS does not publish cut-offs above the 90th percentile in this table, so the calculator cannot rank a salary any higher.
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