Salaries in Scarborough

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Scarborough

Average salary

£28,870

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Average hours worked

37.5

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Salary Growth

2.96%

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Area type

Non-metropolitan District

Population

108,737

Average male salary

£31,793

Average female salary

£25,555

Average male hours worked

Average female hours worked

Number of jobs

30,000

Job density

0.5

Gender pay gap

24.1%

Salaries in Scarborough

The average salary in Scarborough is £28,870, according to figures published by the ONS for 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, average salaries grew by £831. Compare average salaries by area.

Scarborough's salary growth rate is 2.96% per year based on changes in average salary between 2020 and 2021, which is 2.2% higher than the average salary growth rate in Scarborough over the past 9 years.

The average weekly hours worked in Scarborough is currently 37.5 hours. The average male works 38 hours per week and the average female works 37.5 hours per week - a 0.1-hour difference.

There are 30,000 jobs in Scarborough which has a working-age (aged 16-65) population of 61,395, according to figures published by the ONS for 2019. The 2019 job density in Scarborough is 0.5, meaning there are 0.5 jobs per member of the Scarborough working-age population.

Compared to figures for England

Scarborough's average salary of £28,870 is 26.8% lower than England's national average salary of £39,452. Scarborough is the 169th non-metropolitan district in England (of 181 total) when ordered by average salary.
Scarborough's salary growth rate of 2.96% is 0.1% lower than England's current average salary growth rate of 3.09%. Scarborough is the 55th non-metropolitan district in England (of 181 total) when ordered by salary growth rate.
Scarborough's average weekly hours worked of 38 hours is 1 higher than England's which is 37 hours per week.

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

Scarborough salary trends by gender

According to the figures published by the ONS for 2021, female wages in Scarborough average £25,555, and male wages averaged £31,793. Statistically, the average female earns £6,238 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 1.5% and 0.6% respectively.

Males on average make 24.4% more than females in Scarborough, though this does not account for differences in hours worked. After adjusting for the difference in hours worked, the gender pay gap in Scarborough is 24.1% - males in Scarborough earn 24.1% more per hour than females on average.

Population

108,737

Scarborough population

GDP

£ 2.5 billion

Scarborough Economy

Average property price

£204,964

Scarborough House Prices

Scarborough salary and hours worked percentiles

The bottom 10% (percentile 1) of earners in Scarborough earn an average income of £15,936 and work 35 hours per week on average. That's -£15,936 less per year than the top 10%, and -35 hours less per week.