Coventry has the highest wages in the region as the map shows huge pay gaps for men and women

Full-time workers in Coventry earn more on average than those working elsewhere in the region. Wages in Coventry average £798 per week for a full-time employee, or £39,491 per year.

It is almost £10,000 more on an annual salary than nearby Nuneaton and Bedworth, which has the lowest average wages in the Coventry and Warwickshire area. Here, workers take home £596 a week or £29,796 a year.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) data comes from the annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, based on a 1% sample of full-time jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs’ Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records. It illustrates huge differences between the wages of people living in the best and lowest paid council areas in the UK.

Read more: M6 toll misconception explained by experts as drivers warned

You can see how your area is doing on our interactive map below. The figures also showed differences between average wages for men and women in each area.

In Coventry, men earn around £6,000 more a year than women, with the average male salary being £40,741, while women take home just £34,804.

Warwick had the biggest disparity in our area, with men earning 25% more than women on average. The average salary for men is £41,063, while women take home an average of £30,640.

Nuneaton and Bedworth were not far behind with a 24% gap between male and female pay. See the data for your area here:

Last year in the UK, the average annual full-time wage rose by 5.8% to £34,963, while the average weekly wage rose by 6.2% to £681. But wages are much higher in some parts of the country than others.

The average annual salary is higher in Scotland (£35,518) than in England (£35,106), Northern Ireland (£32,879) or Wales (£32,371). Among English regions, there is a distinct north-south gap, with workers in London earning the biggest annual pay packet (£44,370), followed by the South East (£34,963) and the East of England (£34,833).

The lowest wages are in the North East (£31,200), followed by the East Midlands (£31,634) and then Yorkshire and the Humber (£31,920). 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 wage in Tower Hamlets is £61,984 and the average weekly wage £1,120. 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.

At the other end of the spectrum, workers in Oadby and Wigston, Leicestershire take home an average salary of just £24,337 a year or £470 a week, the lowest in the UK. It is followed by Burnley in Lancashire (£28,173 annually), then Merthyr Tydfil in Wales (£27,852) and Torbay in Devon (£27,116).

The ONS data shows the average and median wages of full-time workers living in each part of the country. The ONS believes that the average wage – the amount below which 50% of jobs fall – is a more accurate measure of average earnings than taking the average amount, which can be skewed by a small number of very well-paid jobs.

Sign up here for our FREE daily newsletter for all the latest news on Coventry .