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#AceHealthDesk – Does the average nurse earn £34,000 a year? By Anthony Reuben and Lucy Gilder: BBC Reality Check
Nurses across the UK have voted for strike action over pay. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which represents two thirds of UK nurses, says they have been getting a “raw deal” on pay for years.
But Education Secretary Gillian Keegan told Sky News: “I think the average when I last looked was £34,000 before these increases so it’s more than the average salary across the country.”
What is average pay for nurses?
The £34,000 figure is used in the report from the NHS Pay Review Body, which recommends what should happen to NHS pay in England.
In the category “nurses and health visitors” the average basic pay per full-time employee was given as £34,275, but that is a figure for March 2021.
The government says that figure increased to £35,600 by March 2022, and that nurses were then given a £1,400 increase, which should take the average up to £37,000.
Is that above average?
The education secretary also described that figure as being “more than the average salary across the country”.
That depends on which average you’re talking about.
The mean UK full-time salary, which is what you get if you add up the amount all full-time employees are paid and divide by the number of full-time employees, is £39,966, according to the figures for April 2022 from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
But from the same report, the median, which is the amount that half of full time employees will be earning more than, and half will be earning less than, is £33,000.
So the average figure for nurses is higher than the median salary but lower than the mean.
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