FOI Ref: FOI/2022/4718
You asked
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to know if statistics are held showing the median annual pay earned by medical doctors per year for the last 10 years. If possible, I would like this data to be broken down by stage of training, and the specialty of training.
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request regarding median annual pay earned by medical doctors per year for the last 10 years, broken down by stage of training, and the specialty of training.
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. ASHE is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records. Consequently, individuals with more than one job may appear in the sample more than once. ASHE does not cover the self-employed or employees not paid during the reference period. ASHE information relates to gross pay before tax, National Insurance or other deductions, and excludes payments in kind.
Unfortunately, we do not collect information regarding the training completed, however, the ONS publishes median pay by occupation in ASHE Table 14.
Data are available here for years from 1997 to 2022. The earnings of medical doctors are split into several occupations, defined by the standard occupational classification (SOC). The SOC codes of those you'd most likely be interested in range from 2211 to 2259 under SOC 2020 (used for 2021 and 2022 data only) and 2211 to 2232 under SOC2010 (used for 2011 to 2021 data).