Inspectors of standards and regulations: salary in the UK
About £32,445 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +3.1% on last year
£3,348 a month About £2,704 a month after tax 19 thousand full-time jobs
Gross pay before tax, including bonuses, commission and overtime. Not included: benefits in kind such as a company car. About the data
Pay range
The dark part is the middle half of full-time employees (25% to 75%); the light bar runs from 10% to 90%. ONS doesn't publish the highest or lowest salary, and x means a figure wasn't published.
Pay by year
The median went from £31,142 in 2021 to £40,175 in 2026 (+29%); for all full-time employees in the UK it changed by +31% over the same years.
Figures by year
| P10 | P25 | Median | P75 | P90 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | x | £27,826 | £31,142 | x | x |
| 2022 | x | £28,484 | £33,478 | x | x |
| 2023 | x | £29,307 | £35,345 | x | x |
| 2024 | x | £30,333 | £34,990 | x | x |
| 2025 | £29,670 | £33,586 | £38,966 | £44,529 | x |
| 2026 | £29,435 | £33,349 | £40,175 | £48,604 | x |
ONS figures for each year, not adjusted for inflation. Years before 2021 used a different occupation classification, so they can't be compared. Earlier years are ONS's revised figures; the latest is provisional.
Half of full-time employees in this occupation earn less than £40,175 a year and half earn more. That is 2% less than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
The middle half earn between £33,349 and £48,604; one in ten earns less than £29,435.
Ranked by median, it is number 150 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £2,704 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £2,698 in Scotland.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | £29,435 | £2,453 |
| 20th | £32,683 | £2,724 |
| 25th (P25) | £33,349 | £2,779 |
| 30th | £33,848 | £2,821 |
| 40th | £37,377 | £3,115 |
| Median (50th) | £40,175 | £3,348 |
| 60th | £43,005 | £3,584 |
| 70th | £46,229 | £3,852 |
| 75th (P75) | £48,604 | £4,050 |
| 80th | x | x |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Men and women
| Median | Mean | Jobs (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | £38,982 | £42,089 | x |
| Women | x | £44,926 | x |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £32,445 | £2,704 |
| Scotland | £32,379 | £2,698 |
After Income Tax and National Insurance for 2026 to 2027, with the standard tax code and no pension or student loan. Work out your own take-home pay · Take-home pay on £40,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 146 job titles to SOC 3581 Inspectors of standards and regulations. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Agricultural inspector
- Alkali inspector
- Animal health inspector
- Animal health officer
- Area livestock inspector
- Authorised meat inspector
- Authorised officer
- Bank inspector
- Best value inspector
- Building control inspector
- Building control officer
- Building controller
- Building inspector
- Carcass service officer
- Casino inspector
- Chain and suspension gear tester
- Chemical inspector
- Chief depot inspector
- Chief inspector
- Chief officer
- Chief traffic inspector
- Chief water inspector
- Child employment officer
- Coal inspector
- Compliance inspector
- Consumer adviser
- Consumer protection officer
- Consumer rights advice worker
- Crane inspector
- District inspector
- District officer
- Divisional inspector
- Driving examiner
- Driving standards officer
- Drug inspector
- Effluent inspector
- Effluent officer
- Electrical and mechanical inspector
- Electrical inspector
- Enforcement officer
- Environmental health technician
- Explosives inspector
- Fair trading officer
- Field officer
- Fire inspector
- Fisheries inspector
- Fisheries officer
- Fishery inspector
- Fishery officer
- Fitting inspector
- Fittings inspector
- Flight examiner
- Flight operations inspector
- Fuel inspector
- Gaming inspector
- Gas inspector
- Health and safety inspector
- HMFI
- Hotel inspector
- Housing and planning inspector
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- Housing inspector
- Improvements officer
- Industrial inspector
- Inspecting officer
- Inspector
- Inspector of accidents
- Inspector of factories
- Inspector of fair trading
- Inspector of health and safety
- Inspector of mines
- Inspector of postal services
- Inspector of shipping
- Inspector of special subjects
- Inspector of trading standards
- Inspector of weights and measures
- Inspector of works
- Installation inspector
- Investigating officer
- Investigation officer
- Licensing officer
- Lift inspector
- Livestock officer
- Lloyd's surveyor
- Machine inspector
- Maintenance inspector
- Market inspector
- Markets inspector
- Markets officer
- Material inspector
- Materials inspector
- Meat hygiene inspector
- Meat inspector
- Mines inspector
- National insurance inspector
- Nrswa inspector
- Nspcc child protection officer
- Nuclear power plant safety inspector
- Nuclear power station safety inspector
- Nuclear safety inspector
- Nuclear standards inspector
- Planning inspector
- Planning supervisor
- Plumbing inspector
- Pollution control officer
- Pollution inspector
- Pollution officer
- Portal inspector
- Public houses inspector
- Public lighting inspector
- Public works inspector
- Quality control inspector
- Race relations adviser
- Race relations officer
- Refuse inspector
- Regional officer
- Reinstatement inspector
- Repairs officer
- River bailiff
- River inspector
- Rspca inspector
- Rspca officer
- Safety inspector
- Service inspector
- Ship surveyor
- Site inspector
- Social care inspector
- Sspca inspector
- Street inspector
- Street works inspector
- Superintendent
- Telecommunications inspector
- Television licence investigator
- Trading standards enforcement officer
- Trading standards manager
- Trading standards officer
- Traffic and driving examiner
- Traffic examiner
- Vehicle examiner
- Vehicle inspector
- Vehicle tester
- Vosa inspector
- Wages inspector
- Waste inspector
- Water bailiff
- Water inspector
- Water quality officer
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Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2026 provisional, Table 14.7a (full-time employees, gross annual pay, UK, tax year ending 5 April 2026). Provisional figures may be revised.