Pay by country

Plumber pay, country by country.

One method for every bar: live ads, medians, the sample behind each number. Annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly — never mixed.

Advertised annual salary

Careerjet ads showing pay · median of advertised ranges · bars £-converted for scale, ECB 2026-08-04 · bars start at zero

Australia

A$87,500/yr ≈ £45,756n=13small sample

£38,559/yr ≈ £38,559n=26small sample

Ireland

€40,000/yr ≈ £34,255n=25small sample

Careerjet ads showing pay · median of advertised ranges · bars £-converted for scale, ECB 2026-08-04 · bars start at zero

Australia

A$52.50/hr ≈ £27.45n=14small sample

£25.00/hr ≈ £25.00n=21small sample

Canada

C$42.59/hr ≈ £22.53n=18small sample

Benchmarks — different measures, so they sit beside the chart, not in it:

UK · Adzuna guide: £42,891/yr — advertised annual MEAN, 4,494 salary-bearing ads
Australia · Adzuna guide: A$97,550/yr — advertised annual MEAN, 144 salary-bearing ads
UK · ONS official: full-time “Plumbers and heating and ventilating installers and repairers” earned a median £37,900 in 2025 — earned pay runs below advertised offers.

Every bar: Careerjet live ads, one method — typed salary fields honoured and band-validated, URL-deduplicated, MEDIAN of advertised range midpoints, minimum 10 pay-bearing ads. Periods never mixed: annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly. Dubai monthly ads annualise ×12 (calendar arithmetic, no hours assumptions). Cells that fail to fetch are excluded, never guessed.
The £ column uses ECB reference rates via frankfurter.app, 2026-08-04 · AED via the 3.6725/USD peg · a currency conversion, NOT a purchasing-power or cost-of-living comparison.
Tax and living costs differ wildly — a bigger number abroad is not automatically a better life.

Data refreshed 2026-08-05.

Pay by country

One method for every bar: live ads, medians, the sample behind each number. Annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly — never mixed.

Careerjet ads showing pay · median of advertised ranges · bars £-converted for scale, ECB 2026-08-04 · bars start at zero

Australia

A$87,500/yr ≈ £45,756n=13small sample

£38,559/yr ≈ £38,559n=26small sample

Ireland

€40,000/yr ≈ £34,255n=25small sample

Careerjet ads showing pay · median of advertised ranges · bars £-converted for scale, ECB 2026-08-04 · bars start at zero

Australia

A$52.50/hr ≈ £27.45n=14small sample

£25.00/hr ≈ £25.00n=21small sample

Canada

C$42.59/hr ≈ £22.53n=18small sample

Benchmarks — different measures, so they sit beside the chart, not in it:

UK · Adzuna guide: £42,891/yr — advertised annual MEAN, 4,494 salary-bearing ads
Australia · Adzuna guide: A$97,550/yr — advertised annual MEAN, 144 salary-bearing ads
UK · ONS official: full-time “Plumbers and heating and ventilating installers and repairers” earned a median £37,900 in 2025 — earned pay runs below advertised offers.

Every bar: Careerjet live ads, one method — typed salary fields honoured and band-validated, URL-deduplicated, MEDIAN of advertised range midpoints, minimum 10 pay-bearing ads. Periods never mixed: annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly. Dubai monthly ads annualise ×12 (calendar arithmetic, no hours assumptions). Cells that fail to fetch are excluded, never guessed.
The £ column uses ECB reference rates via frankfurter.app, 2026-08-04 · AED via the 3.6725/USD peg · a currency conversion, NOT a purchasing-power or cost-of-living comparison.
Tax and living costs differ wildly — a bigger number abroad is not automatically a better life.

Data refreshed 2026-08-05.