To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the average earnings received by junior doctors in addition to basic pay in each of the last five years.
Answered on
23 May 2024
The following table shows the estimated annual basic pay, total earnings, and non-basic pay per person for doctors at Junior Doctor level, each year from 2018/19 to 2022/23, the latest year for which data is available:
2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | |
Mean annual earnings per person | £52,062 | £52,616 | £54,569 | £55,422 | £56,661 |
Mean annual basic pay per person | £37,237 | £38,128 | £39,255 | £40,669 | £41,876 |
Mean annual non-basic pay per person | £14,825 | £14,489 | £15,314 | £14,753 | £14,785 |
Source: estimates are based on published figures from the NHS Staff Earnings Estimates and reweighted using headcount data from the NHS Workforce Statistics, both of which are available respectively at the following links:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics