Average salary in Aberdeen
The median full-time salary in Aberdeen is £42,610 per year (gross) — £5,180 above the UK median of £37,430. The middle half of full-time workers in Aberdeen earn between £29,961 (25th percentile) and £57,316 (75th percentile). The mean (average) is £48,743; the mean sits above the median because a small number of very high earners pull it up.
These figures are from the Office for National Statistics Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2024, gross annual pay for full-time employees who work in Aberdeen (ONS local-authority code S12000033), for the pay period including 17 April 2024 (provisional). The estimate is based on about 87,000 full-time jobs in Aberdeen.
On the median £42,610 salary, take-home pay for 2025/26 is about £34,199 a year after Income Tax and National Insurance (England/Wales/NI bands, before pension or student loan) — roughly £2,850 per month. Enter any salary above for the full breakdown.
Scotland tax note: Aberdeen is in Scotland, which sets its own Income Tax bands. The take-home calculator on this page uses England/Wales/NI bands, so the Scottish-band take-home on this salary will differ slightly. The ONS salary figure itself is correct for Aberdeen.
Scope: ONS ASHE 2024 median gross annual pay, full-time employees, by place of work (local authority). This is a different ONS table from the salary-by-role pages (which use occupation-level pay). The take-home calculator uses 2025/26 England, Wales & Northern Ireland tax bands. Always verify against the ONS ASHE place-of-work dataset.