page_title: Income in the United Kingdom
hierarchical_section_title: Income in the United Kingdom
caption_attribution_description: English: UK median household disposable income by income group for 2008-2016, indexed to 2008[1]
context_page_description: Median household disposable income in the UK was £29,400 in the financial year ending 2019, up 1.4% compared with FYE 2018, after accounting for inflation.
  This continues a period of modest growth over recent years; median income grew by an average of 0.7% per year between FYE 2017 and FYE 2019, compared with 2.8% between FYE 2013 and FYE 2017.
  The rise in median income has occurred during a period where the employment rate grew by 0.5 percentage points, while real total pay for employees increased by an average of 1.0% across the 12 months in FYE 2019 compared with FYE 2018.
  Median income of people living in retired households increased by 1.1%, while the median income of people living in non-retired households grew by 1.3%.
context_section_description: Median household disposable income in the UK was £29,400 in the financial year ending (FYE) 2019, up 1.4% (£400) compared with FYE 2018, after accounting for inflation.
  This continues a period of modest growth over recent years; median income grew by an average of 0.7% per year between FYE 2017 and FYE 2019, compared with 2.8% between FYE 2013 and FYE 2017.
  The rise in median income has occurred during a period where the employment rate grew by 0.5 percentage points, while real total pay for employees increased by an average of 1.0% across the 12 months in FYE 2019 compared with FYE 2018.
  Median income of people living in retired households increased by 1.1% (£300), while the median income of people living in non-retired households grew by 1.3% (£400).
caption: UK median household disposable income by income group for 2008-2016, indexed to 2008[1]
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