Is £60,000
a good UK salary?

A high individual income. Check the distance to the top 10%.

£60,000 in three different comparisons
Comparison groupPositionData period
UK taxpayer incomeAbout the 86th percentile2023/24
UK full-time payAbout the 81st percentile2025 provisional
Full-time pay: LondonAbout the 63rd percentile2025 provisional

For the income comparison, this treats £60,000 as your entire relevant personal income. Add other income in the calculator below. Sources: HMRC · 2023/24; ONS · 2025 provisional. Salary comparisons use ONS 2025 provisional data.

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UK taxpayers · income in 2023/24

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Where £60k sits

£60,000 falls between the 80th and 90th percentile anchors in the 2023/24 taxpayer income series. The top-10% threshold is £67,400, leaving a £7,400 gap. The calculator estimates a position within that interval; it does not turn an interpolated value into an exact headcount.

Salary and other income

A £60,000 salary plus £10,000 of rental profit is £70,000 of total income for a relevant income comparison. Putting only the salary into the main calculator would answer a narrower question. Use net rental profit after relevant expenses, not gross rent collected.

What reaches the household

A salary percentile describes gross pay. The amount available each month depends on deductions and household spending. Enter your actual take-home figures in the household budget tool to explore that separately. This page does not calculate personal tax or recommend pension contributions.

See the definitions and data limitations. Figures compare with the stated source years and are not inflation-adjusted forecasts.

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