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Boat and ship builders and repairers: salary in the UK

What boat and ship builders and repairers earn across the United Kingdom, measured by the Office for National Statistics in its annual survey of employers' payroll records.

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Median gross annual pay

£32,600

April 2025

Mean gross annual pay

£34,135

April 2025

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How to read this figure

Median gross annual pay is a statistic for a whole group of people doing boat and ship builders and repairers: salary in the uk, not a quote for any one job offer. Because it is a median, half of that group earns more and half earns less.

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Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), Table 14 (occupation by four-digit SOC 2020, UK), 2025 provisional

Reference period: April 2025. Data collected on: 7 October 2026.

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What this number does not tell you

This number does not know your employer, your experience or your location — all of which move real pay more than the national average does. Treat boat and ship builders and repairers: salary in the uk here as a starting point for negotiation, not a ceiling or a floor.

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What to do with this figure

Check the official source below for the full methodology, then compare this figure with job adverts for boat and ship builders and repairers: salary in the uk in your own region before relying on it.

How much this occupation pays

Across the United Kingdom the median gross annual pay for boat and ship builders and repairers (Standard Occupational Classification 5235) was £32,600 in April 2025. The median is the middle salary: half of these employees earned less and half earned more. The mean of £34,135 is pulled up by the highest earners, which is why the two figures differ.

For comparison, the median for all employees in the UK was £32,890. These figures cover employees on adult rates who had been in the same job for more than a year, so they exclude the pay of people who changed job during the year.

MeasureValue
Median gross annual pay£32,600
Mean gross annual pay£34,135
Median gross weekly pay£600 a week
Median gross hourly pay£15.96 an hour
Median for full-time employees£33,896
Median for part-time employees—
Employee jobs in the survey base (thousands)—

The pay range, from the lowest to the highest paid

ASHE publishes percentiles, which show the whole spread rather than a single average. The 10th percentile is the level that only the lowest paid tenth earn below; the 90th percentile is what the best paid tenth earn above.

Gross annual pay distribution, Boat and ship builders and repairers

PercentileGross annual pay
10th percentile (lowest paid tenth)—
25th percentile—
Median (50th percentile)£32,600
75th percentile—
90th percentile (highest paid tenth)—

Men and women in this occupation

The median for men was £32,600 and for women —. This is an unadjusted comparison: it does not control for hours worked, seniority or part-time working, so it is not a measure of unequal pay for the same work.

How reliable this figure is

Coefficient of variation 11% — ONS considers this estimate acceptable, so read it as an order of magnitude.

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Median vs. mean

The median is the middle value when every salary is lined up from lowest to highest: half earn less, half earn more. The mean is the simple average. A handful of very high salaries pulls the mean up without moving the median, so the median is usually the better guide to what a typical person earns.

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Full-time equivalent

A way of converting part-time hours into the pay a full-time version of the same job would earn, so that a two-day-a-week role can be compared fairly with a five-day one. Figures that mix full-time and part-time workers without adjusting for this tend to understate typical full-time pay.

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Coefficient of variation

A measure of how much an estimate could be off, expressed as a percentage of the estimate itself. Statistical agencies use it to flag figures based on too small a sample: a high coefficient of variation means the number should be read as a rough order of magnitude, not an exact figure.

Fonte: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) — Office for National Statistics.

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Reference period

The point in time, or the stretch of time, that a published figure actually describes. Pay surveys take months to collect and process, so the reference period is usually well before the date the figures are released, and always before the date you are reading them.

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Occupational classification

A standard code that groups similar jobs so that pay statistics can be compared across employers and over time — the UK uses SOC, Canada uses NOC, the United States uses SOC as well, and the European Union uses ISCO. The same job title can sit in different codes depending on the classification used.

Fonte: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Pay statistics glossary — todos os 10 termos.

Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), Table 14 (occupation by four-digit SOC 2020, UK), 2025 provisional

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Reference period: April 2025

Data collected on: 7 October 2026

Released 2025-10-22, last revised 2025-12-19. Estimates marked by ONS as having a coefficient of variation above 20% are suppressed and shown here as unavailable.

Figures are statistical averages for a whole group of employees. Your own pay depends on your employer, your experience, your hours and where you work.

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