Average salary in Glasgow
The median full-time salary in Glasgow is £39,569 per year (gross) — £2,139 above the UK median of £37,430. Pay runs from about £24,430 at the 10th percentile to £68,633 at the 90th. The mean (average) is £45,701; 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 Glasgow (ONS local-authority code S12000049), for the pay period including 17 April 2024 (provisional). The estimate is based on about 298,000 full-time jobs in Glasgow.
On the median £39,569 salary, take-home pay for 2025/26 is about £32,009 a year after Income Tax and National Insurance (England/Wales/NI bands, before pension or student loan) — roughly £2,667 per month. Enter any salary above for the full breakdown.
Scotland tax note: Glasgow 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 Glasgow.
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.