The 2014 ONS annual salaries survey is worth a look. The overall average wage for 21,563,000 people was £27,271. The closest people to this pay grade are sheet metal workers.
There are different ways to interpret the data, but it’s helpful to look at the list and to see where you fall alongside your peers.
See the entire chart and make the comparisons. The table here includes job titles and the corresponding mean average annual salary for that job.
Here is a glimpse at the top 10. See the entire chart and take a look.
| 1 | Brokers | £133,677 | n/a | 16,000 |
| 2 | Chief executives and senior officials | £107,703 | -8.4% | 69,000 |
| 3 | Aircraft pilots and flight engineers | £90,146 | 12.5% | 8,000 |
| 4 | Marketing and sales directors | £82,962 | -2.4% | 126,000 |
| 5 | Information technology and telecommunications directors | £80,215 | 23.7% | 23,000 |
| 6 | Financial institution managers and directors | £78,782 | 7.2% | 83,000 |
| 7 | Advertising and public relations directors | £77,619 | 23.8% | 7,000 |
| 8 | Financial managers and directors | £76,320 | -0.9% | 238,000 |
| 9 | Air traffic controllers | £75,416 | 9.3% | n/a |
| 10 | Legal professionals | £73,425 | -1.2% | 34,000 |
| 11 | Medical practitioners | £69,463 | -1.7% | 171,000 |
| 12 | Actuaries, economists and statisticians | £61,749 | 0.2% | 16,000 |
| 13 | Senior police officers | £58,533 | -0.4% | 12,000 |
| 14 | Human resource managers and directors | £56,315 | 4.3% | 89,000 |
| 15 | Research and development managers | £52,882 | 6.7% | 39,000 |
| 16 | Purchasing managers and directors | £52,683 | 1.2% | 45,000 |
| 17 | Sales accounts and business development managers | £51,576 | 7.2% | 392,000 |
| 18 | Physical scientists | £50,763 | -6% | n/a |
| 19 | Production managers and directors in manufacturing | £49,690 | -3.5% | 416,000 |
| 20 | Senior professionals of educational establishments | £49,679 | 0.6% | 89,000 |