Are you ready to find out how much better or worse off you are than the UK average for your job?  Perhaps you are thinking of changing jobs and want to know what the average UK salary is in your chosen career?

The Office for National Statistics are a dab hand with a calculator and have taken the information of over 23 million working people in the UK to work out what the average salary is within a range of different careers.

Of course these figures are only for illustrative purposes only because as you are aware level of pay is impacted by many factors including experience and geographical location…. but still it’s nice to see how you measure up in comparison to your average UK counterpart.

Obviously the 2015 sums have not been done yet, so these figures refer to 2014 earnings.  You can download the full report by clicking here.

Here they are (in semi-alphabetical order)

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers – £90,146

Advertising and public relations directors – £77,619

Architects – £43,029

Authors, writers and translators – £25,767

Bar staff – £7,404

Brokers – £133,677

Business and financial project management professionals – £47,795

Barristers and judges – £43,368

Business sales executives    – £33,432

Bricklayers and masons – £24,790

Business, research and administrative professionals – £35,545

Call centre workers – £15,206

Chief executives and senior officials – £107,703

Construction project managers and related professionals – £40,519

Chartered and certified accountants – £38,692

Civil engineers – £40,200

Construction operatives – £21,410

Counsellors – £17,526

Chefs – £17,513

Dental practitioners – £40,268

Dispensing opticians – £23,458

Dental nurses – £14,788

Environmental health professionals – £30,777

Electricians and electrical fitters – £30,345

Financial accounts managers – £41,389

Further education teaching professionals – £28,486

Finance officers    – £24,418

Farmers – £22,763

Fitness instructors – £10,540

Finance and investment analysts and advisers – £45,490

Graphic designers – £25,952

Human resource managers and directors – £56,315

Higher education teaching professionals – £40,054

Healthcare practice managers – £29,253

Human resources and industrial relations officers – £29,221

Hotel and accommodation managers – £29,161

Hairdressing and beauty salon managers – £22,113

Insurance underwriters – £43,487

IT engineers – £25,934

Journalists, newspaper and periodical editors – £34,639

Legal professionals – £73,425

Leisure and sports managers – £30,201

Librarians – £24,927

Laboratory technicians – £21,533

Local government administrative occupations – £21,083

Legal secretary – £18,425

Landscape Gardener – £18,010

Medical practitioners – £69,463

Mechanical engineers – £43,029

Medical radiographers – £31,521

Marketing and sales directors – £82,962

Marketing associate professionals    – £29,797

Midwives – £29,529

Medical and dental technicians – £26,440

Nurses – £26,252

Nursery assistants – £11,734

Ophthalmic opticians – £30,834

Occupational therapists – £26,037

Property, housing and estate managers – £44,423

Probation officers – £30,026

Primary and nursery education teaching professionals – £29,908

Pharmacists – £37,439

Paramedics – £36,771

Psychologists – £36,495

Product, clothing and related designers – £28,346

Podiatrists – £27,330

Plumbers and heating and ventilating engineers – £27,330

Prison service officers – £26,496

Postal workers, mail sorters, messengers and couriers – £20,855

Personal assistants and other secretaries – £19,738

Quantity surveyors – £41,086

Rail transport operatives – £40,060

Retail merchandisers – £14,738

Rail construction and maintenance operatives – £35,781

Restaurant and catering establishment managers – £23,781

Receptionists – £12,543

Retail assistants – £10,296

Sales supervisors – £17,812

Senior police officers – £58,533

Sales accounts and business development managers – £51,576

Senior professionals of educational establishments – £49,679

Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services – £48,228

Solicitors – £46,576

Secondary education teaching professionals – £32,524

Train and tram drivers – £47,101

Taxation experts – £46.551

Travel agents – £17,081

Teaching assistants – £11,916

Undertakers / crematorium assistants – £17,414

Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians – £25,145

Veterinary nurses – £16,746

Web design and development professionals – £29,856

Welfare and housing associate professionals    – £19,079