Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the median gross weekly pay for adults in full-time work in each region of the UK.

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

Please see the letter attached from the Permanent Secretary for the Office for National Statistics.

Baroness Smith of Llanfaes

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

8 June 2026

Dear Baroness Smith,

As Permanent Secretary of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what the median gross weekly pay for adults in full-time work in each region of the UK is (HL529).

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. ASHE is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs' Pay as You Earn (PAYE) records.

Table 1 below shows the median gross weekly pay for full-time employee jobs on adult rates by region for April 2025[1], taken from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). April 2025 is the latest period for which ASHE estimates are available. As with any survey, estimates from ASHE are subject to a margin of uncertainty.

The April 2025 data is provisional and will be revised in line with normal practice for our October 2026 publication.

The information provided can be found in our latest publication Employee earnings in the UK: 2025[2] and in ASHE Table 3[3].

More timely data on average weekly earnings is published in our Average weekly earnings (AWE) in Great Britain publication[4]. Our AWE average weekly earnings are our short-term measure of employee earnings and provide an estimate of mean pay for full-time and part- time employees combined. While AWE does not provide median weekly pay for full-time employees and are not available at region level, the most recent data (first quarter of 2026), give an indication of how employee pay has grown in the last year. Our latest estimates from AWE indicate that annual growth in average regular earnings (excluding bonuses) in Great Britain was 3.4% in the three-month period to March 2026.

Table 1: Estimates of median gross weekly pay (£) for full-time employee jobs on adult rates by region, April 2025

Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

Yours sincerely,

Darren Tierney

[1] Estimates for 2025 are provisional.

[2]https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2025

[3]https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/regionbyoccupation2digitsocashetable3

[4]https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/may2026