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Average salary in Yorkshire and the Humber

Full-time employees working in Yorkshire and the Humber earn a median of £37,519 a year (ONS ASHE 2026, provisional), 8% below the UK median of £40,911 and the 9th highest of the 12 UK nations and regions. That is up 5.2% on a year earlier. Full-time workers who live in Yorkshire and the Humber earn a median of £37,676, about the same as jobs located there pay.

By Dominic Roworth · ONS ASHE 2026 data, checked 31 October 2026

Pay in Yorkshire and the Humber: the key figures

Full-time, before tax, year to April 2026.

Jobs in Yorkshire and the HumberPeople living in Yorkshire and the HumberUnited Kingdom
Median pay £37,519 £37,676 £40,911
Average (mean) pay £43,766 £44,453 £52,109
Lowest-paid 10% earn under £24,454 £24,465 £25,288
Lowest-paid 25% earn under £28,982 £28,972 £30,600
Highest-paid 25% earn over £50,699 £51,326 £56,842
Highest-paid 10% earn over £69,168 £70,954 £82,680
Median a week £748.30 £750.30 £811.20
Median an hour £19.00 £19.10 £20.90
Full-time employee jobs (indicative)1,443,0001,461,00018,184,000

ONS counts jobs, not people.

Take-home pay on the median

On £37,519, a full-time employee keeps about £30,534 a year (£2,544 a month) after income tax and National Insurance, with the standard tax code, no student loan and no pension contributions.

What drives pay in Yorkshire and the Humber

Jobs in Yorkshire and The Humber pay a median of £37,519, 8.3% below the UK, and output per hour worked was 12.1% below the UK average in 2023. As in the other northern regions, the shortfall is mostly at the top: the best-paid tenth start at £69,168, 16.3% under the UK, while the lowest-paid tenth are just 3.3% behind.

Making things matters more here than nationally. Manufacturing produces 13.1% of output against 8.9% for the UK and provides 10.2% of jobs against 7.1% across Great Britain, and energy supply is 2.7% of output against 2.0%. Drax Power Station near Selby, which says it generates about 5% of the UK's electricity, employs around 1,000 people. Finance and professional services are smaller than nationally, at 6.0% and 6.1% of output against 8.0% and 8.6% (ONS, 2024).

York has the top workplace median in the council table (£41,974), followed by Leeds (£40,095), where finance provides 4.9% of jobs, about one and a half times the British share, and Sheffield (£39,050). North East Lincolnshire, Rotherham and Kirklees sit at the bottom. Hull shows the commuter effect: jobs in the city pay £36,836 but its residents earn £33,552, while people living in the neighbouring East Riding earn £40,716, more than the £37,168 paid by jobs there.

What is changing: pay for jobs in the region rose 5.2% in 2026, the third biggest increase of the 12 after London and the North East. The economy grew more slowly, by 0.8% in real terms in 2024, and Hull and East Yorkshire was the only combined authority area in the ONS figures whose economy shrank, by 1.2%.

Pay by council

Across Yorkshire and the Humber's 15 council areas, jobs pay most in York (£41,974) and least in North East Lincolnshire (£33,035). Any town or village: local pay lookup.

CouncilJobs therePeople living thereChange on a year
York £41,974 £43,366 +6.2%
Leeds £40,095 £39,190 +5.9%
Sheffield £39,050 £39,304 +4.9%
Barnsley £37,897 £39,910 +5.2%
East Riding of Yorkshire £37,168 £40,716 +5.8%
Wakefield £37,017 £36,886 +3.8%
Kingston upon Hull, City of £36,836 £33,552 +8.9%
Calderdale £36,746 £36,769 +6.1%
North Yorkshire £36,500 £38,561 +5.5%
Doncaster £36,431 £36,255 +7.3%
Bradford £36,253 £35,358 +2.9%
North Lincolnshire £35,674 £37,386 +4.8%
Kirklees £35,176 £36,469 +4.7%
Rotherham £34,678 £36,319 +3.9%
North East Lincolnshire £33,035 £33,499 -0.5%

* Less precise (coefficient of variation over 10%).

The highest-paid jobs in Yorkshire and the Humber

For jobs located in Yorkshire and the Humber, where the estimate is precise (coefficient of variation up to 10%).

JobMedian a yearChange on a year
Business and financial project management professionals£55,766+6.4%
Sales accounts and business development managers£53,329+7.2%
Higher education teaching professionals£52,982-4.8%
Production managers and directors in manufacturing£51,328-0.7%
Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors£46,962+6.7%
Nurse practitioners£45,875+1.6%
Primary education teaching professionals£45,820+10.7%
Secondary education teaching professionals£44,239+1.7%
Police officers (sergeant and below)£44,218-5.6%
Other nursing professionals£41,132+5.3%
Large goods vehicle drivers£40,988+3.4%
Public services associate professionals£40,794+5.2%

The most common full-time jobs in Yorkshire and the Humber

JobJobs (indicative)Median a year
Warehouse operatives45,000£29,124
Other nursing professionals36,000£41,132
Production managers and directors in manufacturing30,000£51,328
Care workers and home carers28,000£27,985
Sales accounts and business development managers27,000£53,329
Other administrative occupations (other)26,000£27,647
Secondary education teaching professionals24,000£44,239
Higher education teaching professionals23,000£52,982
Programmers and software development professionals23,000£48,104*
Primary education teaching professionals23,000£45,820
Nursing auxiliaries and assistants23,000£29,436
Sales and retail assistants22,000£25,345

* Less precise.

Yorkshire and the Humber and its neighbours

Jobs therePeople living thereChange on a year
Yorkshire and the Humber £37,519 £37,676 +5.2%
North East £36,460 £36,904 +5.9%
North West £38,599 £38,503 +3.4%
East Midlands £36,975 £37,822 +4%

Limits

ASHE covers employee jobs, not the self-employed; the 2026 figures are provisional and ONS revises them a year later. Annual pay is for employees in the same job for at least a year. More in our methodology.

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