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Check what a job really pays
We don't publish our own salary numbers: averages scraped from job ads are often wrong. Instead, here are the official sources, and how to read them in two minutes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom: official sources
- ONS: Earnings and hours worked, occupation by four-digit SOC (ASHE Table 14)
The official UK figures: median and percentile gross pay for each occupation, for full-time and part-time employees. Download the latest edition and find your occupation.
- ONS: Find your occupation code (SOC 2020)
ASHE groups jobs by Standard Occupational Classification. Look up the code for your job title first.
- ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, latest bulletin
The headline picture: typical full-time pay, the gender pay gap and changes on last year.
- National Careers Service: explore careers
Government job profiles (England) with typical starting and experienced salary ranges, entry routes and day-to-day tasks.
- NHS Health Careers: Agenda for Change pay rates
Official NHS pay bands. Job adverts show the band, so you can see the exact range.
Other countries
- United StatesBureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook
- CanadaJob Bank: wages by occupation and region
- IrelandCentral Statistics Office: earnings
- AustraliaYour Career (Australian Government): occupations
- New ZealandCareers.govt.nz: jobs database
- European UnionEurostat: earnings statistics
All links go to government or official statistics websites. Links checked 15 October 2026.
How to use it
- Find your job's occupation code with the ONS SOC lookup.
- Open the latest ASHE Table 14 download and find that code.
- Use the median (the middle figure) as "typical", and the 25th to 75th percentiles as the normal range.
- Compare with the salary in the advert. For NHS roles, the band in the advert sets the range.
Questions
- Why don't you just show a number?
- Because we'd have to make one up or copy unreliable data. ONS figures come from employers' payroll records and are the most reliable UK source.
- Are ONS figures before or after tax?
- Gross, before tax and deductions.
- How do I use this in a salary negotiation?
- Quote the official median for your occupation, then point to specific experience in your CV that puts you above it.