Rents vs Wages
This chart compares UK private rents with average weekly earnings using official ONS data.
This chart compares UK private rents with average weekly earnings using official ONS data.
This chart shows how private rents and average weekly earnings have moved over time. Both series are rebased to a common starting point (=100) so you can see whether rents have risen faster or slower than wages.
This chart shows movements over time, but it does not prove a single cause for changes in rents or earnings, and it does not measure rental affordability for any individual household. Rebasing changes the visual scale, not the underlying data.
This chart is rebased: each series is set to 100 at a common starting point so their relative growth can be compared on one axis. Rebasing changes the display scale only — the underlying source values are unchanged.
Sources & update schedule
Data from Office for National Statistics. Each series is published by an official UK source — follow the links below to verify any figure at its origin, or read our data sources and methodology for how the data is imported and how often it updates.
Source: Office for National Statistics
Unit: Index
Updated monthly