Useful wage comparison tools

If you have ever wondered how your earnings compare against other peoples in the UK then there is a useful tool on the Institute for Fiscal Studies website.

You enter some data about the number of adults and children in your household, your household income and your council tax and it produces a graph which shows where you fit in. The graph is certainly a lot easier to understand than some of the documents produced by the Office of National Statistics.

Paywizard is another useful site which allows you to compare the wages you receive for doing your job against what other people earn for doing the same job as you in the same area as you. The data is useful in working out if you are being underpaid by your employer or if you are earning a higher wage than others in the same job as you.

Paywizard also have details of how much some celebrities and footballers earn which is quite interesting whilst at the same time depressing as some make more in a day than a large chunk of the UK workforce make in a year.