Source: Office for National Statistics,  2008

Accountants (chartered and certified)

£37,320

Agricultural machinery drivers

£19,769

Air traffic controllers

£51,911

Air travel assistants

£21, 367

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers

£63,664

Architects

£38,559

Art officers producers and directors

£29,502

Authors and writers

£22,703

Bakers and flour confectioners

£15,362

Biological scientists and biochemists

£34,378

Bricklayers and masons

£22,868

Broadcasting associate professionals

£42,800

Brokers

£94,293

Building and civil engineering technicians

£26,591

Building inspectors

£26,774

Bus and coach drivers

£20,067

Business and related associates

£26,568

Butchers and meat cutters

£17,020

Buyers and purchasing officers

£29,579

Call centre agents

£13,989

Careers advisors

£23,007

Car electricians

£24,886

Caretakers

£15,373

Carpenters and joiners

£22,844

Chefs and cooks

£13,720

Chemical and related process operatives

£26,238

Civil service administrative officers

£15,217

Civil service executive officers

£21,830

Clergy

£20,377

Coal miners

£36,433

Collector salespersons and credit agents

£16,494

Communication operators

£22,383

Company secretaries

£16,465

Compositors and print preparers

£23,718

Construction operatives

£26,313

Construction trades

£24,662

Counter clerks

£16,156

Countryside and park rangers

£20,445

Crane drivers

£28,967

Credit Controllers

£18,794

Customer care occupations

£13,355

Dancers and choreographers

£36,294

Database clerks

£14,912

Debt, rent and other cash collectors

£14,944

Dentists

£31,747

Designers (product and clothing)

£29,028

Directors and chief executives

£212,910

Dockers, stevedores and slingers

£22,363

Draughtsman

£26,774

Driving instructors

£24,705

Education officers and school inspectors

£34,376

Electrical/electronics technicians

£27,983

Electricians and electrical fitters

£26,860

Energy plant operatives

£34,153

Engineering professionals

£35,586

Engineering technicians

£29,488

Engineers (computer)

£27,544

Engineers (design and development)

£36,080

Engineers (electrical)

£37,916

Engineers (mechanical)

£36,982

Engineers (planning and quality control)

£30,915

Engineers (production and process)

£33,243

Engineers (telecommunications)

£26,084

Engineers (TV, video and audio)

£22,027

Environmental health officers

£27,647

Environment protection officers

£26,029

Estate agents and auctioneers

£27,872

Estimators, valuers and assessors

£28,046

Farmers

£18,172

Farm managers

£28,109

Farm workers

£15,602

Filing clerks

£16,192

Finance and investment analysts

£46,718

Financial and accountant technicians

£44,204

Financial managers and chartered secretaries

£77,931

Fire, ambulance and prison officers (senior)

£43,810

Firefighters

£25,863

Floorers and wall tilers

£21,830

Food, drink and tobacco processors

£17,512

Forestry workers

£18,442

Fork-life truck drivers

£18,934

Furniture makers and craft woodworkers

£18,746

Garage managers and proprietors

£31,587

Gardeners and groundsmen

£16,439

Glass and ceramics makers and decorators

£19,622

Glass and ceramics process operatives

£20,396

Glaziers, window fabricators and fitters

£19,328

Goldsmiths, silversmiths, gem workers

£21,562

Goods handling and storage

£16,450

Graphic designers

£22,643

Hand craft occupations

£17,669

Housing and welfare officers

£20,068

Importers, exporters

£20,952

Industrial Cleaning process occupations

£16,612

Insurance underwriters

£34,577

IT operations technicians

£29,954

IT strategy and planning professionals

£48,787

IT user support technicians

£25,917

Journalists

£31,256

Laboratory technicians

£21,239

Labourers in building and woodworking

£18,559

Labourers in foundries

£19,012

Labourers in other construction trades

£18,399

Labourers in process and plant operations

£17,004

Lawyers, judges and coroners

£52,049

Leather and related trades

£18,530

Legal associate professionals

£28,001

Legal professionals

£50,649

Legal secretaries

£17,089

Local government officers (senior)

£44,755

Lorry Drivers

£22,809

Leisure and travel service occupations

£15,284

Librarians

£20,967

Library assistants

£10,749

Lines repairers and cable joiners

£31,902

Local government clerical officers

£17,737

Management accountants

£37,868

Management counsultants and economists

£47,517

Mangers and owners in other areas

£39,930

Managers (advertising and PR)

£48,258

Managers (construction)

£43,744

Managers (customer care)

£36,805

Managers (environment and conservation)

£35,152

Managers (healthcare practice)

£25,729

Managers (hospital and health service)

£38,372

Managers (hotel and accomodation)

£27,468

Managers (leisure and sports)

£27,017

Managers (marketing and sales)

£54,029

Managers (mining and energy)

£58,802

Managers (pharmacy)

£38,714

Managers (production and works)

£43,569

Managers (property, housing and land)

£40,678

Managers (purchasing managers)

£49,148

Managers (quality assurance)

£37,228

Managers (recycling and refuse disposal)

£32,597

Managers (research and development)

£54,950

Managers (residential and day care)

£26,302

Managers (restaurant and catering)

£21,229

Managers (retail and wholesale)

£26,378

Managers (security)

£33,668

Managers (storage and warehouse)

£28,484

Managers (travel)

£24,604

Managers (transport and distribution)

£37,533

Marketing associate professionals

£26,096

Mechanics

£22,543

Metal working machine operatives

£21,613

Midwives

£25,586

Mobile machine drivers and operatives

£20,444

Moulders, core makers, die casters

£24,094

Non-governmental organisation officers

£18,727

Nurses

£23,044

Occupational therapists

£23,778

Office clerks

£16,192

Office managers

£32,300

Officials of special interest organisations

£37,624

Opticians (dispensing)

£21,512

Opticians (opthalmic)

£33,094

Painters and decorators

£20,887

Paper and wood machine operatives

£21,469

Paramedics

£21,720

Pattern makers (moulds)

£27,618

Pensions and insurance clerks

£19,555

Personnel and industrial relations managers

£49,717

Pest control officers

£19,058

Pharmaceutical dispensers

£13,990

Pharmacists and pharmacologists

£30,839

Photographers and projectionists

£23,967

Physicists, geologists and meteorologists

£43,009

Physiotherapists

£23,153

Plant and machine operatives

£20,710

Plasterers

£21,545

Plastics process operatives

£19,243

Plumbers

£25,485

Police officers (inspector and above)

£54,241

Police officers (sergeant and below)

£36,021

Postal workers, messengers, couriers

£19,486

Precision instrument makers

£24,735

Printers

£25,813

Printing machine minders and assistants

£22,576

Prison service officers

£23,324

Probation officers

£24,522

Process operatives

£20,208

Protective service associates

£25,163

Psychologists

£34,637

Publicans

£18,399

Public relations officers

£26,948

Public service administrators

£26,016

Public service associate professionals

£31,525

Quality assurance technicians

£22,873

Quarry workers and related operatives

£24,228

Rail construction and maintenance

£29,383

Rail transport operatives

£30,246

Rail travel assistants

£23,044

Refuse and salvage occupations

£17,606

Registrars of educational establishments

£33,575

Researchers

£27,953

Residential wardens

£15,693

Road construction operatives

£22,558

Road sweepers

£17,792

Roofers and slaters

£20,268

Roundsmen and van salespersons

£18,900

Routine inspectors and testers

£20,379

Routine laboratory testers

£16,114

Rubber process operatives

£22,994

Sales related occupations

£17,860

Sales representatives

£29,470

Scaffolders, tagers, riggers

£28,773

School secretaries

£12,850

Science and engineering technicians

£24,946

Scientific researchers

£35,076

Screen printers

£17,302

Seafarers and boatmen

£27,721

Secretaries

£15,018

Security guards and related occupations

£18,228

Security occupations (elementary)

£10,779

Sheet metal workers

£21,219

Ship and hovercraft officers

£26,869

Smiths and forge workers

£21,598

Social science researchers

£22,050

Social services managers

£32,622

Social workers

£26,306

Software professionals

£36,651

Speech and language therapists

£24,945

Sports and fitness occupations

£12,204

Statutory examiners

£26,466

Steel erectors

£26,205

Stock control clerks

£17,364

Surveyors (chartered)

£42,487

Surveyors (quantity)

£35,518

Taxation experts

£28,519

Taxi drivers and chauffers

£13,921

Teachers

£29,300

Teachers (further education)

£24,906

Teachers (primary and nursery)

£27,990

Teachers (secondary school)

£31,340

Teachers (special needs education)

£30,337

Teaching professionals (higher education)

£33,898

Telephone salespersons

£16,030

Telephonists

£14,171

Textile process operatives

£17,078

Textiles, garments and related trades

£19,861

Therapists

£23,483

Tool makers, fitters and markers-out

£24,768

Town planners

£39,108

Trading standards and plant inspectors

£27,125

Traffic wardens

£20,526

Train drivers

£37,231

Trainers (vocational and industrial)

£22,242

Transport and distribution clerks

£21,296

Transport operatives

£20,870

Travel agents

£14,712

Typists

£13,759

Tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters

£17,270

Undertakers and mortuary assistants

£16,219

Upholsterers

£17,681

Van drivers

£16,776

Vehicle body builders and repairers

£22,236

Vehicle spray painters

£22,103

Veterinarians

£30,724

Wages clerks

£17,885

Water and sewerage plant operatives

£25,443

Weavers and knitters

£16,389

Weighers, graders, sorters

£17,886

Welding trades

£23,178

Window cleaners

£14,399

Workplace hygeinists and safety officers

£30,456

Youth and community workers

£16,716