New figures show men paid thousands more than women in Cornwall

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Last year, average annual full-time pay rose by 5.8% to £34,963, while average weekly pay rose by 6.2% to £681. Wages are much higher in some parts of the country than others, with the average annual salary being higher in Scotland (£35,518) than in England (£35,106), Northern Ireland (£32,879) or the Country 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).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) 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.

It illustrates huge differences between the wages of people living in the best and lowest paid council areas in the UK.

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).

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