% of UK workforce earning >20k £30k etc

jhnwrmn

I'm in the process of finishing my degree and am currently in the process of looking for jobs.

Many of the jobs I've seen command salarys of less than £30,000, even with experience.

Does anyone know what % of the uk workforce actually earns more than £30k ?

SailorSam

The average wouldn't tell you a lot that would help in your search for work, it depends so much upon where you live. Which side of the North/South devide.

Emmzi

as a student you should be aware of sources of reliable information and the importance of quality research. This website is not reliable. ONS is. Why not look there?

TrickyWicky

According to the media, the average salary is £25k yet there are millions of people who don't earn anything like that. I've no idea where they keep plucking this figure from but it can't be right.

GRM

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/income_tax/liabilities-april2011.pdf

Table 2.5 for 2011-2012 looks to be the one you want although I think it excludes those below the income tax threshold.

29.9% of taxpayers earn more than 20k.
10.1% more than 30k.
2.4% more than 50k.
1.2% more than 100k.

RobTang

TrickyWicky wrote: »

According to the media, the average salary is £25k yet there are millions of people who don't earn anything like that. I've no idea where they keep plucking this figure from but it can't be right.

Because that's just how averages work, you loose some information when you aggregate any sort of figures.

Besides in a population of 60 million your going to get millions in any statistical division excluding the extremes

marybelle01

TrickyWicky wrote: »

According to the media, the average salary is £25k yet there are millions of people who don't earn anything like that. I've no idea where they keep plucking this figure from but it can't be right.

You do know the meaning of the word average? If there weren't millions of people earning less than that, then the average would be higher! I suppose for that 6,000 or so people who earn more than a £million it would take an awful lot of national minimum wages to balance them out.

MissSarah1972

TrickyWicky wrote: »

According to the media, the average salary is £25k yet there are millions of people who don't earn anything like that. I've no idea where they keep plucking this figure from but it can't be right.

Yeah 'they' say the UK average is £25k but I have never earnt that and no one at my last co did either.

I am aware what average means but its misleading to think that a lot of people get this

getmore4less

jhnwrmn wrote: »

I'm in the process of finishing my degree and am currently in the process of looking for jobs.

Many of the jobs I've seen command salarys of less than £30,000, even with experience.

Does anyone know what % of the uk workforce actually earns more than £30k ?

Plenty of places to get an idea of this... but is this really relvent what people between the ages of 16 and 60+ get.

Wiki has some data for the UK.

but is any of this relevent based on the degree you chose,

what degree? what college?

many are worthless than experience.

cgk1

The median gross annual earnings for full-time employees is £26,200 (If you are earning that sum a year - precisely half the surveyed working population earns less than you and half more).

However that is just the tip of the iceberg because it's the blunt figure and you can get large variation between regions, genders and other factors. for example (the following figures are from 2009 but will give you a broad idea):

How about the top 25%? A gross annual salary of £31,759 - measured across all jobs - gets you into that club.


How about if you make the top 10%? The ASHE figures reveal that a salary of £44,881 is enough to just edge into that top bracket.

A gross annual salary of £58,917 gets you into the top 5%

CIS

Yeah 'they' say the UK average is £25k but I have never earnt that and no one at my last co did either.

Thats about £7500 more than I earn.