Average salary in Reading
The median full-time salary in Reading is £45,843 per year (gross) — £8,413 above the UK median of £37,430. The middle half of full-time workers in Reading earn between £32,016 (25th percentile) and £64,513 (75th percentile). The mean (average) is £53,949; 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 Reading (ONS local-authority code E06000038), for the pay period including 17 April 2024 (provisional). The estimate is based on about 74,000 full-time jobs in Reading.
On the median £45,843 salary, take-home pay for 2025/26 is about £36,527 a year after Income Tax and National Insurance (England/Wales/NI bands, before pension or student loan) — roughly £3,044 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.