Compare Job Salaries

Choose up to three jobs below to compare their median annual pay. These are occupation statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), not a personalised salary quotation for any particular job or employer. Actual pay can vary by employer, location, experience, hours and the exact role.

What does median pay mean?

The median is the middle value when everyone's pay is lined up from lowest to highest. It's not the same as an average, which can be pulled up or down by a small number of very high or very low earners. Where WageOra shows a median figure, that's what it means.

Where the salary information comes from

WageOra currently uses salary information from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), 2025 (provisional). These are median gross annual pay for full-time employee jobs across the United Kingdom, and count jobs rather than people. The figures cover the tax year ending 5 April 2025. See Sources for the exact release WageOra has checked, and How WageOra Works for how a figure is verified before it appears.

The monthly and weekly amounts shown in a result are worked out by WageOra from the published annual figure. They aren't separately published by the ONS.

When a salary figure isn't available

Not every job has a usable ONS figure. Sometimes the ONS itself hasn't published a reliable estimate for that job over this period; sometimes WageOra hasn't yet confirmed which official occupation category a job title maps to. Either way, WageOra shows that the figure is unavailable rather than an estimate or a guess. For Registered Nurse, which has no single ONS figure for the broad title, see the Registered Nurse Salary UK page for why, and what WageOra can reliably tell you instead.

Salary is only part of the comparison

A median pay figure is a useful starting point, not the whole picture. When weighing up two or three jobs you may also want to think about working hours, pension, overtime, location, other benefits, commuting costs and the actual responsibilities of the role.

These are published statistical estimates, not a guarantee of what any particular employer will pay. For an important decision, check the current official information and the actual job offer or employer details. If you know your own salary, you can estimate your take home pay directly.