The worst paid area of ​​Leicestershire in the whole country

New figures suggest average wages in every Leicestershire area last year were below the national average. And one area in particular had the lowest average wages in the entire country.

The national average wage last year was £34,963 – almost six per cent higher than in 2022. But when the country is broken down into council areas, at the bottom of the list are Oadby and Wigston, where working residents took home an average average salary. of just £24,337 a year – the lowest in the UK.

Next from the bottom was Torbay in Devon, where they earned almost £3,000 more a year, averaging £27,116 a year. In Leicestershire, the highest paid area was the Blaby district – but even there people were several hundreds of pounds short of the national figure, earning an average of £34,626.

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Unexpectedly, the borough of Harborough – which has the highest house prices in Leicestershire – came fifth out of the eight Leicestershire boroughs. The second lowest paid borough was Melton, followed by the City, third from the bottom.

Averaging all the figures to give regional wages, the figures show that London had the highest average pay packet last year at £44,370, and the lowest wages were in the North East, where salaries are £31,200 pounds, followed by the East Midlands with £31,634. .

Below are the average salaries in Leicestershire from highest to lowest

1. Blaby – £34,626
2. North West Leicestershire – £33,487
3. Hinckley & Bosworth – £33,077
4. Charnwood – £33,017
5. Harborough – £31,682
6. Leicester – £30,770
7. Melton – £28,190
8. Oadby and Wigston – £24,337

The map below shows all areas of the country, with darker shades of green for higher paying areas. The map is based on data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The data comes from the annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, based on a sample of 1% of full-time jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs’ Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records. Discounting the City of London banking district – which is home to only a small number of people who work mainly in well-paid jobs in the financial industry – workers living in London’s Tower Hamlets earn the most money.

The average annual salary in Tower Hamlets was £61,984 last year. However, many people living and working in London receive a higher salary due to the increased cost of living in the capital.

Outside London, workers living in the Three Rivers tributary of Hertfordshire earned the highest average annual salary at £46,232, followed by residents of the remote Shetland Islands in northern Scotland (£44,052) and then the Ribble Valley in Lancashire (£41,874 sterling) – which is by far the highest paying council area in the North of England.

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