Household disposable income and inequality, UK
Median and mean household disposable income in the UK each year since 1977, adjusted for household size and in the latest year's prices, for everyone and for people in retired and non-retired households, with the Gini coefficient and other measures of inequality, from the ONS.
Median, all people
£39,159
2024/25 · 2024/25 prices; a Gini coefficient of 32.7
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:24 UTC- Median, all people
- Mean, all people
- Median, non-retired
- Mean, non-retired
- Median, retired
- Mean, retired
Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
48 periods, newest first
| Period | Median, all people | Mean, all people | Median, non-retired | Mean, non-retired | Median, retired | Mean, retired |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | £39,159 | £45,602 | £40,840 | £47,240 | £33,283 | £37,777 |
| 2023/24 | £37,817 | £44,028 | £39,817 | £46,081 | £30,664 | £33,721 |
| 2022/23 | £37,529 | £44,558 | £39,169 | £46,564 | £30,588 | £34,698 |
| 2021/22 | £38,480 | £46,766 | £40,575 | £48,984 | £30,746 | £36,608 |
| 2020/21 | £38,592 | £46,262 | £40,497 | £48,385 | £31,239 | £36,161 |
| 2019/20 | £37,826 | £46,528 | £40,089 | £49,101 | £29,186 | £33,755 |
| 2018/19 | £36,333 | £44,756 | £37,921 | £46,739 | £30,293 | £35,409 |
| 2017/18 | £36,038 | £44,288 | £37,630 | £46,153 | £29,854 | £35,459 |
| 2016/17 | £36,921 | £45,031 | £38,525 | £46,715 | £30,793 | £37,260 |
| 2015/16 | £35,951 | £45,175 | £37,434 | £46,951 | £29,838 | £36,477 |
| 2014/15 | £35,333 | £43,748 | £37,418 | £45,729 | £29,062 | £34,298 |
| 2013/14 | £33,864 | £42,892 | £35,564 | £44,962 | £28,585 | £32,596 |
| 2012/13 | £33,015 | £41,210 | £34,809 | £42,962 | £27,388 | £32,885 |
| 2011/12 | £33,789 | £42,023 | £35,639 | £43,911 | £27,847 | £32,955 |
| 2010/11 | £34,600 | £42,995 | £36,376 | £45,279 | £27,852 | £32,126 |
| 2009/10 | £34,649 | £44,714 | £36,812 | £47,439 | £26,848 | £31,473 |
| 2008/09 | £34,602 | £43,208 | £37,090 | £45,821 | £25,824 | £29,907 |
| 2007/08 | £35,043 | £45,920 | £37,816 | £48,966 | £26,138 | £30,629 |
| 2006/07 | £34,491 | £44,367 | £37,361 | £47,098 | £25,415 | £30,934 |
| 2005/06 | £34,518 | £43,447 | £37,090 | £45,940 | £25,336 | £31,627 |
| 2004/05 | £34,131 | £42,070 | £36,599 | £44,743 | £24,722 | £28,932 |
| 2003/04 | £33,206 | £40,381 | £35,395 | £42,735 | £24,257 | £28,599 |
| 2002/03 | £32,595 | £39,904 | £35,085 | £42,218 | £23,538 | £28,434 |
| 2001/02 | £31,574 | £38,835 | £33,971 | £41,126 | £21,611 | £27,170 |
| 2000/01 | £29,682 | £35,996 | £31,593 | £38,124 | £21,056 | £25,129 |
| 1999/00 | £29,191 | £35,145 | £31,212 | £37,215 | £20,368 | £24,613 |
| 1998/99 | £27,436 | £33,116 | £29,362 | £35,016 | £19,593 | £23,648 |
| 1997/98 | £26,871 | £32,362 | £28,903 | £34,011 | £19,505 | £23,689 |
| 1996/97 | £26,203 | £30,965 | £28,141 | £32,672 | £18,336 | £22,250 |
| 1995/96 | £24,827 | £29,314 | £26,407 | £30,784 | £17,936 | £21,693 |
| 1994/95 | £24,755 | £29,495 | £26,832 | £31,074 | £17,571 | £21,476 |
| 1993 | £24,118 | £28,908 | £25,846 | £30,509 | £16,941 | £20,769 |
| 1992 | £24,789 | £29,235 | £26,689 | £30,926 | £16,497 | £20,626 |
| 1991 | £25,534 | £30,302 | £27,489 | £32,271 | £15,587 | £20,367 |
| 1990 | £24,799 | £29,954 | £26,968 | £32,019 | £14,527 | £18,901 |
| 1989 | £24,192 | £28,389 | £26,269 | £30,294 | £14,142 | £18,129 |
| 1988 | £23,581 | £28,030 | £25,380 | £29,896 | £13,780 | £17,751 |
| 1987 | £22,191 | £26,127 | £23,805 | £27,603 | £14,131 | £18,058 |
| 1986 | £21,118 | £24,503 | £22,675 | £25,834 | £13,689 | £16,837 |
| 1985 | £20,296 | £23,533 | £21,916 | £24,775 | £13,293 | £16,382 |
| 1984 | £19,441 | £22,053 | £20,716 | £23,070 | £13,248 | £15,789 |
| 1983 | £18,847 | £21,625 | £19,982 | £22,569 | £13,221 | £15,816 |
| 1982 | £18,652 | £21,070 | £19,640 | £22,103 | £12,260 | £14,032 |
| 1981 | £18,945 | £21,568 | £20,125 | £22,610 | £12,236 | £14,511 |
| 1980 | £19,954 | £22,193 | £21,173 | £23,375 | £11,766 | £13,834 |
| 1979 | £19,332 | £21,392 | £20,591 | £22,603 | £11,372 | £13,131 |
| 1978 | £18,613 | £20,447 | £19,525 | £21,421 | £11,443 | £13,379 |
| 1977 | £16,825 | £18,747 | £17,738 | £19,602 | £10,688 | £12,378 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics
- Check it yourself
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/datasets/householddisposableincomeandinequality
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:24 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:24 UTC; 288 of 288 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:09:42Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 288 of 288 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation and inequality match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 288 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 288 of 288 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation and inequality match |
| Pass | ONS edition is current | the financialyearending2025 edition counts at 2025-03-31, 587 days before retrieval (limit 1000) |
| Pass | Table 9 gives Table 10's Gini | 48 of 48 cases of Table 10's Gini coefficients are Table 9's for all people's disposable income |
| Pass | Table 4 gives Table 9's latest | 9 of 9 cases of Table 4's 2024/25 Gini coefficients are Table 9's |
| Pass | Table 8 gives Table 1's | 96 of 96 cases of Table 8's means and medians for retired and non-retired people, on the income definition, are Table 1's |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/datasets/householddisposableincomeandinequality – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Equivalised household disposable income – income after taxes and cash benefits, adjusted for the size and make-up of each household – of people in the UK, in pounds a year at the latest year's prices, as Table 1 of the ONS's household disposable income and inequality tables gives it from the Household Finances Survey and the surveys before it. Years run by calendar year to 1993 and by financial year from 1994/95. The ONS adjusts the series for the highest incomes, which surveys under-record.
- The ONS says that the latest year's smaller sample makes its estimates less certain, the retired's above all, so a change from the year before should be read with caution. The headline's Gini coefficient, from Table 10, is the ONS's measure of how unequally disposable income is shared: 0 if everyone had the same and 100 if one person had it all.