- By Nicu Calcea
- Business reporter, BBC News
Image supply, Getty Images
The common full-time employee within the UK was incomes practically £35,000 a 12 months in April, official knowledge exhibits, an increase of 5.8% on the earlier 12 months.
The dimension of that rise varies from job to job, with journey brokers getting a pay bump of 21%, whereas sport coaches noticed their earnings fall essentially the most.
Despite the will increase in pay, most employees’ wages rose by lower than inflation, the speed at which the price of items and providers rise.
This implies that in actual phrases, wages fell by 1.9% for full-time employees – an indication of the continued value of dwelling squeeze.
Use the lookup desk beneath to see what the typical pay is in your job group, how that has modified from the earlier 12 months, and whether or not a pay rise has topped inflation.
About the information
The wage knowledge within the desk above comes from the newest Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings launch from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which covers the 12 months to April 2023.
These aren’t essentially the most up-to-date figures on the job market, however they supply a extra granular view than the month-to-month labour statistics printed by the ONS.
In this evaluation, we used the gross annual pay for full-time employees for every occupation group. We’re exhibiting you the median wages, which is how a lot the middle-ranking worker earns.
To calculate the annual change in actual phrases, we adjusted April 2022 earnings to what they might have been in April 2023 if employees obtained pay rises in line with inflation, or extra exactly, the Consumer Prices Index together with proprietor occupiers’ housing prices (CPIH). The distinction between the recorded April 2023 wages and the inflation-adjusted estimates is the annual change in actual phrases.
For the job group titles, we used the newest ONS classification of occupations, which teams associated jobs collectively. You can seek for the group that matches your job finest with this tool from Warwick University.
