United Kingdom
Senior care workers salary in the United Kingdom
Median annual pay
£29,381
Senior care workers in the United Kingdom earn a median of £29,381 a year, about £14.87 an hour.
Median
£29,381
per year
Hourly
£14.87
at 38 hrs/week
Mean
£29,804
pulled up by top earners
Workers
75,000
in this occupation
What that is worth in US dollars
Converted at today's rate
$39,045
2026-07-29 ECB reference rate
vs
Adjusted for local prices
$41,881
World Bank PPP, 2025
The first number is what the salary converts to if you moved the money. The second is what it actually buys in the United Kingdom. When those two disagree, the second one is the one that tells you how well someone lives on this wage.
How United Kingdom measured this
1% sample of PAYE records, full-time employees
Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) Table 14, 2025 provisional · Open Government Licence v3.0
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