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title: "Jersey pay and the cost of living"
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published: 2026-10-06T18:08:11+00:00
modified: 2026-10-06T18:45:25+00:00
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publisher: NSFW (https://www.nsfw.info)
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# Jersey pay and the cost of living

What people in Jersey earn, which sectors pay most, and whether pay is keeping up with prices, from the official earnings statistics. Updated automatically when new figures are published.

Average Earnings Index to **June 2026**. Median earnings to **December 2025**.

Average earnings

+4.1%

Year to June 2026. Prices rose 2.8%

After inflation

+1.2%

Real-terms change, year to June 2026

Median monthly pay

£3,680

Average of the 12 months to December 2025

Best-paid sector

£1,420 a week

Financial and legal activities, average earnings

## What should your pay be now?

## Pay against prices

Since 1990, average earnings have risen 345% and prices 276%. After inflation, average pay is 19% higher than in 1990.

*Chart: Average earnings and prices, 1990 = 100 (see the data tables and CSV download)*

*Chart: Change in average earnings after inflation, year to June (see the data tables and CSV download)*

## Pay by sector

*Chart: Average weekly earnings by sector, June 2026 (see the data tables and CSV download)*

*Chart: Pay rises by sector, year to June 2026 (see the data tables and CSV download)*

## What a typical worker earns

The median is the middle earner: half earn more and half less. Over the 12 months to December 2025, median monthly pay was £3,680, taken from the payroll records of every employee. It is lower than the average (mean) because a minority of high earners pull the average up. The median public sector employee earned £4,780 a month, 56% more than the median in the private sector outside finance (£3,060).

*Chart: Median monthly earnings by sector, 12-month average (see the data tables and CSV download)*

*Chart: Median earnings index, Jan 2022 = 100 (see the data tables and CSV download)*

### Men and women

Over the latest 12 months, the median woman earned 7% less a month than the median man.

*Chart: Median monthly earnings, men and women, 12-month average (see the data tables and CSV download)*

[Download the earnings indices (CSV)](https://www.nsfw.info/data/pay.csv)

Source: Government of Jersey open data, published by Statistics Jersey and government departments: [Average Earnings Index](https://opendata.gov.je/dataset/average-earnings-index) (Index of average earnings; Real terms index of average earnings; Level of average earnings by sector; Annual percentage change in average earnings by sector); [Earnings in Jersey](https://opendata.gov.je/dataset/earnings-in-jersey) (Median Earnings Index; Earnings by sector; Real term earnings); [Inflation (RPI, RPIX, RPI pensioners, RPI low income)](https://opendata.gov.je/dataset/rpi-rpi-x-rpi-y-rpi-pensioners-and-rpi-low-income-percentage-changes) (Jersey RPI and RPIX percentage change and index numbers). Licensed for use under the [Open Government Licence – Jersey v1.0](https://www.gov.je/ServiceManual/opendata/Pages/open-government-licence-jersey-ogl-j-v1-0.aspx). Figures checked 6 October 2026, 19:45.