Employees' Contributions

(asked on 29th August 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees paid National Insurance in March 2025.


Answered by
Dan Tomlinson Portrait
Dan Tomlinson
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 8th September 2025

The ONS and HMRC publish monthly data on Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information (PAYE RTI): Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK - Office for National Statistics

The table below sets out the number of Employees from March 2025 to June 2025 (inclusive) who have made Class 1 Employee National Insurance Contributions (NICs) in that month.

March 2025

April 2025

May 2025

June 2025

Number of Employees with Class 1 Employee NICs

24,512,000

24,465,000

24,522,000

24,658,000

Notes:

  1. Data is taken from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) Real-Time-Information (RTI)
  2. Rounded to the nearest thousand
  3. Data for the 2025/26 tax year (April 2025 to June 2025 inclusive) may be subject to revisions as new data is received
  4. Data has not been seasonally adjusted

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