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UK Average Earnings in 2021 for Managers, Directors And Senior Officials

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Last Reviewed: 17th March 2021

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Document: Employee earnings in the UK: 2020

Employment Category: Managers, directors and senior officials

This page contains the average salaries for Managers, directors and senior officials in the United Kingdom in 2021 as extracted from the "Employee earnings in the UK: 2020" document published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). If you are not sure which occupation group your occupation is listed in pleave view our list of occupations allocated to each group by the Office of National Statistics

Below you will find details of the average salary as detailed in the ONS report for 2021 and 2020 with details of the percentage change in average salary and a supporting salary calculation so you can see what the take home pay for each occupation listed under "Managers, Directors And Senior Officials" would be. Please note that some occupations may have no average salaries defined for specific years, this occurs when insufficient data is recorded via the survey or when occupations categories are redefined.

Average Salary Year

Average Salaries for 2020 (based on the Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2020) relate to the pay period that includes 22 April 2020, at which time approximately 8.8 million employees were furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS); the average salaries include furloughed employees and are based on actual payments made to the employee from company payrolls and the hours on which this pay was calculated, which in the case of furloughed employees are their usual hours.

Interpreting average salary data is difficult in 2021 due to how COVID-19 impacted the Average Weekly Earnings data. This means that comparisons with 2020 need to be treated with caution, and we encourage users to focus on long-term trends rather than year on year changes during the COVID 19 years.

2020 Annual Salary 1st Jul 2020 to 30th Jun 2021OccupationPay Differance2021 Annual Salary 1st Jul 2021 to 30th Jun 2022
£ 85,239.00 Chief executives and senior officials 5.59 % £ 90,000.00
£ 48,606.00 Production managers and directors in manufacturing -0.71 % £ 48,260.00
£ 48,120.00 Production managers and directors in construction -4.45 % £ 45,977.00
£ 45,738.00 Production managers and directors in mining and energy -1.61 % £ 45,000.00
£ 67,114.00 Financial managers and directors -4.07 % £ 64,384.00
£ 80,759.00 Marketing, sales and advertising directors -6.35 % £ 75,631.00
£ 48,047.00 Public relations and communications directors -1.99 % £ 47,092.00
£ 63,362.00 Purchasing managers and directors 2.02 % £ 64,641.00
£ 49,359.00 Charitable organisation managers and directors -2.91 % £ 47,923.00
£ 69,814.00 Human resource managers and directors -8.60 % £ 63,810.00
£ 57,345.00 Functional managers and directors n.e.c. -5.97 % £ 53,919.00
£ 53,365.00 Managers and directors in retail and wholesale -15.02 % £ 45,351.00
£ 40,157.00 Officers in armed forces -3.42 % £ 38,783.00
£ 31,294.00 Senior police officers -0.86 % £ 31,025.00
£ 56,665.00 Social services managers and directors 3.65 % £ 58,734.00
£ 32,314.00 Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture 3.29 % £ 33,376.00
£ 32,000.00 Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors -12.67 % £ 27,946.00
£ 25,000.00 Publicans and managers of licensed premises -8.02 % £ 22,994.00
£ 40,409.00 Leisure and sports managers -34.21 % £ 26,587.00
£ 32,335.00 Travel agency managers and proprietors -6.68 % £ 30,176.00
£ 33,581.00 Managers in transport and distribution 6.19 % £ 35,659.00
£ 36,587.00 Managers in storage and warehousing 1.94 % £ 37,297.00
£ 38,441.00 Property, housing and estate managers -2.53 % £ 37,468.00
£ 36,037.00 Garage managers and proprietors -0.33 % £ 35,917.00
£ 23,641.00 Hairdressing and beauty salon managers and proprietors 1.56 % £ 24,009.00
£ 43,052.00 Managers and directors in the creative industries 0.40 % £ 43,224.00
£ 32,286.00 Managers and proprietors in other services n.e.c. -6.95 % £ 30,043.00