Chartered Surveyor Salary 2026/27: MRICS + FRICS Take-Home
ONS classifies chartered surveyors as SOC 2020 unit group 2454. Their full-time median was £46,184 in ASHE 2025, with a quarter of the group below £37,504 and a quarter above £57,670. Chartered status comes from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS, and FRICS for fellows); ONS does not measure what it adds to pay.
Typical pay & take-home
- Median gross
- £46,184
- ASHE 2025, 25th to 75th percentile
- £37,504–£57,670
- Take-home at median
- £36,772 England, no pension applied — use the salary calculator for your scheme.
At the median for this profession, you earn about 18% above the UK full-time median (£39,039), placing you between the 50th percentile (£39,039) and the 75th percentile (£54,009) of UK full-time earnings.
What influences chartered surveyor (mrics) pay
Surveying has no national pay scale, so this page anchors on the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. For SOC 2020 2454, the April 2025 full-time median was £46,184; a tenth of the group earned under £29,085, a quarter under £37,504 and a quarter over £57,670. ONS did not publish a reliable 90th percentile.
The unit group brings several surveying specialisms together - building, land, property, estate and hydrographic surveyors among them - and ONS does not split it by specialism, region or membership grade, so the range mixes trainees with partners. Quantity surveyors (2453) and valuation surveyors (3541) are coded to other unit groups.
The median is a basic-rate salary outside Scotland. The upper quartile is not: at £57,670 with no pension contribution, about £7,400 sits above the £50,270 threshold and is taxed at 40% with 2% National Insurance. A pension contribution through salary sacrifice or a net pay arrangement reduces the slice pound for pound.
Career progression
- ASHE does not publish surveyor pay by grade. These are points in the April 2025 full-time pay distribution for SOC 2020 2454.
- 10th percentile: £29,085.
- Lower quartile: £37,504.
- Median: £46,184.
- Upper quartile: £57,670. ONS did not publish a reliable 90th percentile for the group.
- RICS membership: MRICS after the Assessment of Professional Competence, then FRICS for fellows.
Frequently asked questions
- What is take-home for a chartered surveyor on the £46,184 median?
- With no pension contribution, take-home in England in 2026/27 is about £36,772 a year, or £3,064 a month, after £6,723 Income Tax and £2,689 National Insurance. With a 5% pension contribution by salary sacrifice it is about £35,109. At the £57,670 upper quartile, with no pension, it is about £44,006.
- What is the marginal rate between £100,000 and £125,140?
- 62% for an employee outside Scotland. Above £100,000 of adjusted net income the personal allowance is withdrawn at £1 for every £2, so each extra pound costs 40% Income Tax, another 20% on the allowance lost, and 2% National Insurance. By £125,140 the allowance is gone. A pension contribution by salary sacrifice, a net pay arrangement or relief at source reduces adjusted net income and restores the allowance.
- Does ONS measure the pay difference MRICS makes?
- No. The ASHE occupation table groups chartered surveyors as one unit group and does not split them by membership grade, so there is no official figure for what MRICS or FRICS adds to pay. Surveys published by recruiters and professional bodies ask their own respondents and are not comparable with ASHE.