Salary vs Inflation Calculator
Has your pay kept up with the cost of living? Compare your salary over time against UK CPI inflation and see your real-terms gain or loss.
Real-terms pay cut
-£6,520/yr
Real-terms pay cut
-£6,520/yr
-15.7% in real terms
Your pay has not kept up with inflation. Your £30,000 in 2015 would need to be £41,520 today to have the same purchasing power. Your current £35,000 falls £6,520 short — a real-terms pay cut of 15.7%.
Your salary vs inflation
Nominal pay rise
+£5,000
+16.67%
Cumulative inflation
38.4%
2015–2025
Your 2015 salary today
£41,520
to have same purchasing power
Your 2025 salary in 2015 money
£25,289
equivalent purchasing power
Purchasing power: If your salary had stayed at £30,000 since 2015, you would have lost 27.75% of your purchasing power by 2025.
| 2015 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Your salary | £30,000 | £35,000 |
| UK median | £27,615 | £39,039 |
| vs median | +8.64% | -10.35% |