Average salary in Cardiff
The median full-time salary in Cardiff is £36,199 per year (gross) — £1,231 below the UK median of £37,430. Pay runs from about £23,774 at the 10th percentile to £65,427 at the 90th. The mean (average) is £41,093; 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 Cardiff (ONS local-authority code W06000015), for the pay period including 17 April 2024 (provisional). The estimate is based on about 154,000 full-time jobs in Cardiff.
On the median £36,199 salary, take-home pay for 2025/26 is about £29,583 a year after Income Tax and National Insurance (England/Wales/NI bands, before pension or student loan) — roughly £2,465 per month. Enter any salary above for the full breakdown.
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.