Average salary in Leeds
The median full-time salary in Leeds is £36,770 per year (gross) — £660 below the UK median of £37,430. Pay runs from about £23,497 at the 10th percentile to £69,869 at the 90th. The mean (average) is £42,937; 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 Leeds (ONS local-authority code E08000035), for the pay period including 17 April 2024 (provisional). The estimate is based on about 277,000 full-time jobs in Leeds.
On the median £36,770 salary, take-home pay for 2025/26 is about £29,994 a year after Income Tax and National Insurance (England/Wales/NI bands, before pension or student loan) — roughly £2,500 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.