A high income in the source distribution
£150,000 is between the 95th-percentile threshold of £93,600 and the 99th-percentile threshold of £207,000 in the 2023/24 HMRC series. The distance between those anchors is large. The displayed percentile within that interval is an interpolation, with no claim to decimal-point accuracy.
Full-time salary data run out of detail sooner
The salary thresholds used here stop at the 90th percentile. £150,000 exceeds that threshold for both the UK-wide and London comparisons in the 2025 provisional ONS series. The result therefore says top 10%, without inventing a more precise salary rank in the tail.
Recurring pay or an exceptional year?
An annual total can include a one-off bonus or other variable income. The dataset ranks that year’s income; it cannot establish what your next year will look like. Similarly, the figure does not reveal the value or accessibility of your assets.
See the definitions and data limitations. Figures compare with the stated source years and are not inflation-adjusted forecasts.