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🇬🇧United Kingdom · High income · 2026-Q3

Manchester

53composite score · #17 of 50

MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified

The cited earnings URL has now been fetched (2026-04-30 archive and live 2026-07-28) and contains no pay figure of any kind, so the earlier 'pending live-verification, will return to HIGH' framing is withdrawn: this figure cannot be promoted by fetching, only by finding a Manchester source, and none exists. Inputs previously named in this field have been re-checked and do not support GBP 12.99. Fairwork UK is national and scores fairness 0-10, never pay; its latest UK round is 2023. NimbleFins is dead (nimblefins.co.uk 301s to clearscore.com) and its last capture (20250720004718) gives a national 'between GBP 7-GBP 12 per hour' for Deliveroo, not the GBP 9-15 previously quoted, and contains zero occurrences of 'Manchester'. A third input previously named here was a blocklisted aggregator and has been removed under the project's citation blocklist. GBP 12.99 stands as an undocumented estimate derived from London's own undocumented estimate.

Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.

Earnings (USD per hour)

Net, after tax & expensesn/a
Gross$17.28/hr

Source: Fairwork UK ratings (national; no Manchester cut, no pay rate)

What would you take home in Manchester?

30hrs

Take-home, weekly

n/a

Take-home, monthly

n/a

Gross, weekly

$518

Gross, monthly

$2,246

Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.

Cost of living vs. earnings

Hours of work for one month's rent (1BR outside centre)243 hours
Rent, 1BR outside centre$1246/mo
Restaurant meal (mid-range)$19.95

Pay vs. local labour market

Minimum wage$16.90/hr
Median wage (all occupations)$23.03/hr

Gross hourly is 48% of local minimum wage, 35% of local median.

View Manchester on the interactive map

See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.

Primary earnings source: fair.work/en/ratings/uk/ · archived