Employees' Contributions
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees paid National Insurance in May 2025.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
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:
- Data is taken from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) Real-Time-Information (RTI)
- Rounded to the nearest thousand
- Data for the 2025/26 tax year (April 2025 to June 2025 inclusive) may be subject to revisions as new data is received
- Data has not been seasonally adjusted
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