Area type
Unitary Authority
Population
138,381
Average male salary
£33,166
Average female salary
£28,519
Average male hours worked
38
Average female hours worked
37
Number of jobs
40,000
Job density
0.5
Gender pay gap
14.2%
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The average salary in Blackpool is £30,717, according to figures published by the ONS for 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, average salaries grew by £2,452. Compare average salaries by area.
Blackpool's salary growth rate is 8.68% per year based on changes in average salary between 2020 and 2021, which is 6.7% higher than the average salary growth rate in Blackpool over the past 9 years.
The average weekly hours worked in Blackpool is currently 37.5 hours. The average male works 38 hours per week and the average female works 37.3 hours per week - a 0.7-hour difference.
There are 40,000 jobs in Blackpool which has a working-age (aged 16-65) population of 84,720, according to figures published by the ONS for 2019. The 2019 job density in Blackpool is 0.5, meaning there are 0.5 jobs per member of the Blackpool working-age population.
Salaries are mean averages of annual gross pay for full-time employees. Hours worked are mean averages of weekly hours worked by full-time employees
According to the figures published by the ONS for 2021, female wages in Blackpool average £28,519, and male wages averaged £33,166. Statistically, the average female earns £4,647 less than the average male, though this does not account for differences in hours worked.
Over the past 9 years, female and male salaries have average annual growth rates of 2.7% and 1.1% respectively.
Males on average make 16.3% more than females in Blackpool, though this does not account for differences in hours worked. After adjusting for the difference in hours worked, the gender pay gap in Blackpool is 14.2% - males in Blackpool earn 14.2% more per hour than females on average.
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The bottom 10% (percentile 1) of earners in Blackpool earn an average income of £16,511 and work 34 hours per week on average. That's -£16,511 less per year than the top 10%, and -34 hours less per week.
percentile | Female Hours | Male Hours | Female Salary | Male Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10th | 32.4 | 36.1 | £16,614 | £15,548 |
| 20th | 35.0 | £19,338 | £19,871 | |
| 25th | 35.0 | 37.0 | £20,173 | £20,978 |
| 30th | 36.2 | 37.3 | £21,216 | £23,390 |
| 40th | 37.0 | 37.5 | £22,556 | £26,275 |
Salaries are mean averages of gross annual pay for full-time employees in Blackpool, reported by the ONS for 2020.
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Salaries are mean averages of gross annual pay for full-time employees in Blackpool, reported by the ONS for 2020.
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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. Data sources: ONS Local statistics