Great Britain / Work & income
Hybrid work has an income gap — even within broad occupation groups.
ONS survey estimates for Great Britain, 8 January–30 March 2025, show higher hybrid-work shares in the £50,000-and-over personal-income band than in the up-to-£20,000 band across four broad occupation groups. Published uncertainty intervals and small-sample cautions are shown.
A gap, with uncertainty.
Higher-income point estimates exceed the lower-income estimates in each of these four broad groups. The comparison describes an association within broad occupation categories; it does not compare people doing the same job or establish an income effect.
The workbook labels the lower band “Up to £20,000.” Income includes earnings and other sources. The published 95% intervals are shown, and the associate-professional intervals overlap.
* Two subgroup samples round to 30: lower-income managers and higher-income administrative/secretarial workers. ONS says estimates based on 30 or fewer should be treated with caution.
Published estimates
| Occupation | Personal income | Estimate | 95% interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managers, directors and senior officials | Up to £20,000 | 26%* | 5–47% |
| Managers, directors and senior officials | £50,000 and over | 56% | 48–64% |
| Professional occupations | Up to £20,000 | 20% | 9–32% |
| Professional occupations | £50,000 and over | 46% | 40–51% |
| Associate professional occupations | Up to £20,000 | 23% | 13–33% |
| Associate professional occupations | £50,000 and over | 44% | 32–56% |
| Administrative and secretarial occupations | Up to £20,000 | 14% | 7–20% |
| Administrative and secretarial occupations | £50,000 and over | 60%* | 37–83% |
Source, scope & uncertainty
Weighted Opinions and Lifestyle Survey estimates for working adults aged 16 and over living in Great Britain, 8 January–30 March 2025; release 11 June 2025. These are historical survey-period figures, not current October 2026 rates.
Hybrid means Yes to both worked from home and travelled to work in the previous seven days. The measure includes regular and irregular patterns; respondents answering Don’t know or Prefer not to say to either question are excluded. The denominator includes the employed-but-did-not-work category.
Personal annual gross income is self-reported and includes earnings, pensions, benefits, savings, investments and property income. It is neither salary alone nor equivalised household income.
Use the workbook label Up to £20,000 for the lower band and £50,000 and over for the higher band. The bulletin prose describes the lower band as under £20,000; the chart retains the exact published workbook label without inventing an endpoint interpretation.
Select the four broad SOC occupation groups identified in the ONS bulletin as having the highest hybrid-work shares. These are broad groups, not matched employees or the same job. Income, occupation and working arrangements are self-reported. This descriptive comparison does not establish an income effect or explain causes.
Point estimates and 95% confidence intervals are copied unchanged from Table_1 columnsD–F. Sample sizes are copied from columnG and rounded by ONS to the nearest 10. Sample size is the subgroup denominator, not the number of hybrid respondents. Estimates based on 30 or fewer should be treated with caution: lower-income managers and higher-income administrative/secretarial groups both show 30.
Confidence intervals are displayed for each estimate. Associate professional intervals overlap:13–33% and 32–56%. No claim that all four differences are statistically significant; no confidence interval for a difference is calculated. Point gaps 30/26/21/46 percentage points subtract rounded estimates only.
The tidy chart CSV has 8 observations. The paired CSV has 4 occupation rows with both estimates, intervals, sample sizes, source coordinates and point gaps. The full Table_1 extract has 224 rows and retains suppression markers as strings; none of the 8 selected observations is suppressed. No missing values are filled, no estimates reweighted, and no interpolation is performed.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v 3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics, Opinions and Lifestyle Survey,11 June 2025. Chart and selection by Meplar; no ONS endorsement implied. No ONS logo, photograph or third-party illustration reused.
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