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The UK's Independent
Salary Intelligence Platform

Train to Earn exists for one reason: to give UK workers the salary data they need to make better career decisions. We publish independent, data-backed salary guides for over 200 job roles across 68 UK cities — completely free, forever.

Our Mission

Most people have no reliable way to know whether they are paid fairly. Salary conversations remain taboo in most UK workplaces, leaving millions of workers without the information they need to negotiate a raise, consider a career move, or simply understand their own market value.

Train to Earn was built to change that. We aggregate official government data, industry salary surveys, and live job market intelligence to create the UK's most comprehensive and transparent salary reference platform. Every salary guide on this site is free to access, with no registration required.

We believe salary transparency benefits everyone — employees who can advocate for fair pay, employers who attract talent by paying competitively, and an economy that functions better when workers can move freely to where their skills are most valued.

What We Cover

Our salary database covers more than 200 UK job roles spanning technology, healthcare, finance, education, engineering, law, marketing, public sector, trades, creative industries and more. For each role we publish average, minimum and maximum salaries at entry, mid, senior and director level — broken down by city.

Our location database covers 68 UK cities and towns, with cost of living indices, average rental costs and real take-home pay figures that allow meaningful comparisons between cities. A software engineer in Manchester and a software engineer in London may earn different gross salaries, but after accounting for rent and cost of living, the real-terms difference is often far smaller than people assume.

Beyond raw salary data, our interactive tools help users calculate their actual take-home pay after tax and National Insurance, assess whether their current salary is above or below market rate, and model the financial impact of career decisions over 10, 20 and 30 years.

Our Data Sources

Every salary figure on Train to Earn is derived from authoritative, publicly available sources. We do not invent or estimate salary data. Our primary sources are:

ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE)
The Office for National Statistics ASHE survey is the UK's most comprehensive employer-reported salary dataset, covering over 180,000 employees annually. It is the gold standard for UK occupational pay data.
HMRC PAYE Real Time Information
HM Revenue & Customs PAYE data provides real-time earnings information drawn from payroll submissions across the UK workforce.
Professional Body Salary Surveys
We incorporate annual salary surveys from bodies including ICAEW, CIPD, BMA, NMC, Law Society, RIBA, ICE, IET, RICS, APM and others, which provide occupation-specific benchmark data with large sample sizes.
Job Board Market Data
Advertised salary ranges from major UK job boards including Reed.co.uk, Totaljobs, CV-Library and LinkedIn provide current market intelligence and demand indicators.
Rightmove & Zoopla Rental Data
Cost of living and rental cost figures for each UK city are sourced from Rightmove Rental Index and Zoopla's UK Rental Market Report, updated annually.

All data is reviewed and updated annually. Where multiple sources are available for a single role, we use a weighted average that gives greater weight to larger sample sizes and more recent data. Data vintage is noted on each individual salary page.

Editorial Standards

Train to Earn maintains strict editorial independence. Our salary data is not influenced by advertisers, job boards, employers or any commercial partners. Affiliate relationships with job boards and course platforms — which help fund the site — have no influence whatsoever on the salary figures we publish or the editorial content of our guides.

Where we link to job listings, courses or other commercial products, these are clearly labelled and chosen for their relevance to the salary guide, not for commercial reasons. Our editorial team reviews all affiliate placements annually to ensure they remain genuinely useful to readers.

We do not publish salary data for roles where we cannot identify at least two independent data sources with adequate sample sizes. Where data is limited or more variable than usual (for example, roles where commission or equity significantly affects total compensation), we note this explicitly on the relevant page.

Errors and corrections: if you believe any salary figure on this site is materially inaccurate, please contact us with supporting evidence and we will review and correct within 14 days where appropriate.

How We Stay Free

Train to Earn will always be free to use. The site is funded through display advertising (Google AdSense) and affiliate commissions from job boards and course platforms. When a user clicks through to apply for a job on Reed or Totaljobs, or enrols in a course on Coursera or Udemy, we may earn a small commission at no cost to the user.

These commercial relationships are disclosed wherever relevant and never influence our editorial decisions. We believe a sustainable business model based on genuine value creation — helping people earn more — is the right way to fund a salary data service.

Get in Touch

We welcome feedback, corrections and partnership enquiries. For salary data corrections, media enquiries, advertising, or general questions:

✉ hello@traintoearn.org Contact Form →

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