salary benchmark · uk · free & anonymous

Is your salary normal?

The one money question nobody will answer honestly — because nobody talks about pay. So ask an anonymous crowd instead. Find out where you actually rank, in seconds.

where do you rank?

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the bit the other sites can't tell you

but is £40,000 actually good?

A percentile tells you where you rank. It can't tell you if you're doing alright. The crowd can.

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guidance · not advice

What people actually earn by age in the UK

Here's the median full-time salary at each age — the midpoint, where half earn more and half earn less. The median is the honest number to compare yourself against; the "average" gets dragged upwards by a handful of very high earners, which is why it always feels out of reach.

agemedian full-time salary
18–21£21,000
22–29£31,000
30–39£38,000
40–49£40,000
50–59£37,000
60+£33,000
The trap: seeing you're below your age-band number and panicking. That band lumps a junior in Stoke together with a partner-track solicitor in London — people with almost nothing financially in common. Your region and your role matter as much as your age, which is why the tool above factors those in.

So… is your salary good, or just average?

This is where every other "average salary" page leaves you hanging. It hands you a number and a percentile, and you're left to decide for yourself whether £40k at 30 means you're winning or falling behind. That judgement is the thing you actually came for — and it's the one thing a spreadsheet can't give you.

On The Money Verdict, real people anonymously rate whether a salary at your age is "doing alright" or "time to ask for a rise." It's the honest, judgement-free second opinion you can't get from friends or colleagues, because — as you already know — nobody will tell you what they earn.

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