MAPPED: Highest and lowest earning parts of Greater Manchester as wages grow slower than rest of UK
manchestereveningnews.co.ukEarnings are up across Greater Manchester - but wages are growing slower in the region than across the UK as a whole. The average full-time employee in the UK earns £37,430 a year according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
That’s up by 6.9% compared to 2023. The average full-time earnings in Greater Manchester, however, are £34,462 a year. That’s 5.3% higher than 12 months earlier, but it does mean that earnings are growing slower here than the country as a whole.
Manchester has the lowest wages of anywhere in the city-region. The average full-time salary in the city is £32,704 a year. That’s actually fractionally less than in 2023, down by 0.4%. READ MORE: Miracles are performed here every day by medics - it's time their surroundings matched their work By contrast, the average earnings in neighbouring Trafford are £39,246 a year.
Trafford is the only Greater Manchester borough where people earn more than the national average. But even there, wages are growing slower than the national average, increasing by just 3.2% since 2023 - less than half the UK rate.
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