What was the average salary in 1840 England?

Answer 1

Anywhere from 100 to 1000 pounds a year, depending on their job. Here's a good website about Victorian salaries and jobs.

Answer 2

In 1840 Birmingham the average weekly wage for a 13-year old boy was 4s - 2d, (for a 13-year old girl, 3s - 3d); a man aged 20 could expect an average weekly wage of 14s (5s for a woman) but many could earn up to 19s. By his mid 30s a man might earn £1 - 5s (or up to £2 for more skilled work) and a woman 8s - 7d (up to 14s). Nowadays we are struck by this discrepancy in earning power between the sexes, but it wouldn't have raised an eye-brow in 1840. The fact that even a 7-year old child could be employed for 1s a week shows that poor families were unlikely to make education a priority. (statistics quoted in "A History of Industry in Birmingham" by Marie Rowlands 1977).

I am not sure that this answer is correct. I have reliable contemporary records for the shoe industry. In the 1890s a male clicker in the shoe industry earned 18 shillings a week for very skilled work and an agricultural labourer about 13 shillings a week. In the same decade a female closer earned 7 shillings and 6 pence a week. The idea that fifty years earlier anyone earned over £1 cannot be correct.

Answer 3

its approx 20,000 GBP per year

Answer 4

5-10 shillings.about 10 bucks