How much people earn where you live in Wales as average pay sits thousands of pounds below UK average

People in Wales earn more than £2,500 less than the UK average. Earnings are up across the United Kingdom with the average full-time employee in the UK earning £37,430 a year according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, which is up 6.9% compared to 2023.

More than half of people in England, Scotland and Wales earn less than the national average. In Wales, the national average is £34,915, and just three of Wales' 22 council areas earn more.

Denbighshire is the fifth lowest ranking local authority area when comparing figures in Great Britain with an average of £30,112 (local authority-level figures for Northern Ireland are not available). For the latest Welsh news delivered to your inbox sign up to our newsletter

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Pendle in Lancashire has the lowest average earnings of any local authorityarea in the country where the average full-time employee there earns £28,945 a year. At the other end of the scale is the London borough of Richmond upon Thames where the average earnings for full-time employees there is £56,048 a year, 17.7% more than in 2023.

Wales median figures for every local authority area:

Blaenau Gwent: No median figure available, mean figure £34,840

Vale of Glamorgan: £38,420

Monmouthshire: £37,828

Isle of Anglesey: £36,675

Cardiff: £36,665

Flintshire: £36,441

Carmarthenshire: £36,302

Newport: £35,891

Neath Port Talbot: £35,830

Powys: £35,074

Conwy: £34,904

Ceredigion: £34,828

Swansea: £34,682

Bridgend: £34,220

Wrexham: £33,491

Pembrokeshire: £33,401

Torfaen: £33,312

Rhondda Cynon Taf: £33,275

Merthyr Tydfil: £32,470

Caerphilly: £31,923

Gwynedd: £30,431

Denbighshire: £30,112