Pay datasets
Measures
Each measure is one kind of value you can request, using its id.
| Measure | Unit | Combining areas |
|---|---|---|
Median gross annual paymedian-annual-pay | £ per year | Not combined |
Median gross hourly paymedian-hourly-pay | £ per hour | Not combined |
Median gross annual workplace paymedian-workplace-annual-pay | £ per year | Not combined |
Median gross hourly workplace paymedian-workplace-hourly-pay | £ per hour | Not combined |
“Adds up” means you can total it over areas or convert it to other areas. See Measures and periods for why some can't be combined.
Areas and years
Request each of these with its geography and code year as geography and boundaryYear.
| Areas | Code year | Periods | Covers | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local authorities | 2025 | 2025 | England | 294 |
| Local authorities | 2025 | 2025 | England | 295 |
Things to know
- Annual pay is estimated only for employees who have been in the same job for at least a year.
- Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 provisional results, Table 8: pay of employee jobs by the local authority the employee lives. Every employee job counts, full and part time; the self-employed are not included.
- Gross pay, before tax and other deductions. The mean and percentiles the table also publishes are not served.
- Provisional results are revised when the following year's survey is published.
- A median of authorities' medians is not the median pay of their combined residents, and no weight recovers it.
- Gross hourly pay includes overtime pay and overtime hours; the publisher's separate table excluding overtime is not served.
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- Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 provisional results, Table 7: pay of employee jobs by the local authority where the employee works. Every employee job counts, full and part time; the self-employed are not included.
Corrections and improvements
These reviewed changes apply to what the API serves for this data. The publisher's source files are not changed; when a code correction applies, the served record retains the publisher's code as sourceAreaCode.
| Change | What the API serves | Applies when |
|---|---|---|
| Opt-in canonical measure-unit presentation | On the explicit canonical request, each numeric value and any publisher-supplied interval bound is multiplied by the measure's declared scale; the response names the resulting unit and calculation. | GET /v1/data/{measure-id}?units=canonical |
curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/corrections?measure=median-annual-pay"/correctionsList reviewed correctionsRequest it
Get the first page of median-annual-pay for local authorities:
curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/data/median-annual-pay?period=2025&geography=localAuthority&boundaryYear=2025&limit=5"Read the measure's full definition, including every period it's published for:
curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/measures/median-annual-pay"/data/{measure-id}Get observationsget/data/{measure-id}/seriesGet a time seriesSource and licence
| Dataset | Publisher | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Income | Office for National Statistics | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Workplace income | Office for National Statistics | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
Using this data in something you publish? Get attribution text with measure=median-annual-pay returns the credit line to include.
Downloads
Download complete publisher-observation files instead of paging through the API. Each file has a stable hash and covers one measure, period set and source geography. Any reviewed served code correction is documented and retains its publisher code on the affected record. The source and licence information above applies to these files too; preserve the attribution and note any cleaning or reformatting when you redistribute one.
| Measure | Coverage | Records | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
Median gross annual paymedian-annual-pay | Local authorities · 2025 · code year 2025 | 294 | JSON |
Median gross hourly paymedian-hourly-pay | Local authorities · 2025 · code year 2025 | 294 | JSON |
Median gross annual workplace paymedian-workplace-annual-pay | Local authorities · 2025 · code year 2025 | 295 | JSON |
Median gross hourly workplace paymedian-workplace-hourly-pay | Local authorities · 2025 · code year 2025 | 295 | JSON |