What London earns

Median gross annual pay, twenty years of it.

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SeriesPeriod or categoryValueUnit
Value200528,177GBP median gross annual
Value200628,671GBP median gross annual
Value200729,841GBP median gross annual
Value200831,097GBP median gross annual
Value200931,941GBP median gross annual
Value201032,003GBP median gross annual
Value201131,852GBP median gross annual
Value201232,509GBP median gross annual
Value201332,750GBP median gross annual
Value201432,768GBP median gross annual
Value201533,109GBP median gross annual
Value201633,694GBP median gross annual
Value201734,725GBP median gross annual
Value201835,702GBP median gross annual
Value201936,851GBP median gross annual
Value202038,526GBP median gross annual
Value202137,635GBP median gross annual
Value202239,497GBP median gross annual
Value202342,083GBP median gross annual
Value202444,796GBP median gross annual
Value202546,414GBP median gross annual

Methodology

Median gross annual pay for people living in London, from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings via NOMIS — the resident analysis rather than the workplace one, which measures what jobs in London pay and reads higher. Median rather than mean, because a handful of very large City salaries drag an average somewhere no one recognises. Cash figures, not adjusted for inflation: the line is what was paid, not what it bought.

Provenance

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