Whats the average yearly income for someone in the uk?

iBot · 31 Oct 2007 at 00:56

25-30k?

PardonTheWait · 31 Oct 2007 at 00:57

Google?

bledd · 31 Oct 2007 at 00:58

the mean average, probably not far off that

there are a lot of people who work for much less than that, but the high rollers bodge the figures

MikeHunt79 · 31 Oct 2007 at 01:13

I thought it was around 18k for some reason? It depends if you include part time jobs as well..

Andelusion · 31 Oct 2007 at 01:14

Mohinder said:
Google?

He's right you know.

How come anyone on here possibly be able to give you a better answer without going to google? Very unlikely anyway.

Phil99 · 31 Oct 2007 at 01:19

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=285

Google search on Firefox even auto completed 'average uk wage 2007'

GarethDW · 31 Oct 2007 at 02:11

Do people think about their salaries in terms of weekly amounts? I've got no idea how much I get per week as I'm always asked for my annual income.

cheets64 · 31 Oct 2007 at 02:14

£32,124

-|ScottFree|- · 31 Oct 2007 at 02:16

GarethDW said:
Do people think about their salaries in terms of weekly amounts? I've got no idea how much I get per week as I'm always asked for my annual income.

Depends if you get paid weekly.

Scuzi · 31 Oct 2007 at 02:20

GarethDW said:
Do people think about their salaries in terms of weekly amounts? I've got no idea how much I get per week as I'm always asked for my annual income.

I can't think of anyone who thinks of their salary as a weekly amount apart from certain tradesmen who are paid every Friday cash in hand and part time jobs which pay weekly.

Spamalot · 31 Oct 2007 at 02:27

So its about £20K then, a little more for men and a little less for women.

vincent1989 · 31 Oct 2007 at 07:48

heard in the news recently it was somewhere in the region of 22k

Rotty · 31 Oct 2007 at 08:50

it's about £25k , the above link is the median not the average

FrostedNipple · 31 Oct 2007 at 08:53

Rotty said:
it's about £25k , the above link is the median not the average

median is an average

you mean it wasn't the mean average

vincent1989 · 31 Oct 2007 at 08:56

FrostedNipple said:
median is an average you mean it wasn't the mean average

no...median is the middle...mean = average

Zogger · 31 Oct 2007 at 08:57

Mohinder said:
Google?

I don't know anyone who earns a google a year :eek:

Windle · 31 Oct 2007 at 09:03

Aye, average wage is £25k.

wez130 · 31 Oct 2007 at 09:20

bringerofdecay said:
heard in the news recently it was somewhere in the region of 22k

According to 'Location, location, location', the average annual income in the UK is £22k

Rotty · 31 Oct 2007 at 10:01

it was £23,607 in 2002 so prob at least £25k now

wage rises would probably have added around 20% to that thought the influx of low paid immigrants may have impacted it a bit

Heliospherez · 31 Oct 2007 at 10:03

A simple question and we already have 8 different answers (with a range of about £10,000 difference) - Oh my God !

You have to be more specific in the question - as anyone of the answers above could be deemed as correct (depending on what spin you put on it)

Firstly (you asked for the UK average) - Most gov agencies don't include Northern Ireland in their figures (which reduces the figure a great deal) - The Northern Ireland Office for Stats has a seperate average yearly pay of approx £17,000.

(Secondly do you mean before or after tax, what age groups are you taking into account (the national stats website only includes over 18's I believe)
You also didn't state whether you wanted to include part-time workers, cash in hand workers or other types of employment. If you just want full-time employment you should get an answer of between £18,000 - £22,000 from what I remember (although most establishments will claim around £23,000)

The national stats website also includes bonus and overtime payments and is a very limited 1% sample.