What's the going rate for your charity job?
The brand new 2025 Harris Hill Salary Survey is coming very soon with the answers, including the latest rates and analysis for more than 200 positions in the UK charity and not-for-profit sector.
In the meantime, you can still read the 2024 edition in our salary survey archive ►
How it works and what to expect
With our thanks firstly to the several hundred superb organisations who’ve entrusted us with their recruitment needs since last year’s survey, we start with the salaries of the thousands of roles that have crossed our desks during the past financial year, spanning all major charity departments.
Role by role, our specialists then review the data, using their insight and expertise to adjust for highly unrepresentative cases that might distort the overall picture, and applying their up-to-the-minute knowledge of the wider market to ensure we reflect what’s actually being paid (not just what’s advertised) for each role throughout the sector.
Market trends
To put the figures into context, we also share our specialists' insights on current trends in the charity recruitment market and what's happening in their particular field. Why are fixed term contracts proliferating across the sector? How can candidates get ahead in a more competitive market? And will charities ever run out of inventive new ways to stretch limited budgets ever further?
Charity salaries: the 10-year trends
While the survey dates back much further, this year marks 10 years of the current methodology, giving us a whole decade's worth of directly comparable data.
So as well as bringing you the latest developments, this time we're taking the opportunity to zoom out and look at the long-term picture: how have salaries in your kind of charity job progressed in the last 10 years, where have the highest increases been, and how do charity salaries since 2015 stack up against those in other sectors, inflation and the cost of living?
How to view the survey
03 June 2025: Watch this space, as the 2025 Harris Hill Salary Survey will be available to view or download from this page later this month!
In the meantime, if you'd like an exclusive preview copy, just call one of our specialist consultants (numbers here), or our main switchboard on 020 7820 7300.
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The Harris Hill Salary Survey archive
We've been reporting on salaries in the charity sector since 2006, and you'll find the last few editions here, including our collaboration with CharityJob on the 2019 Salary Report.
Find it here, along with earlier surveys from the archive.
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Guest writer Nicola Greenbrook is here to tackle this tricky dilemma.
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The truth about charity chief executives
Every so often we're invited to be incandescent about the salaries of charity executives, but what's the truth behind the tabloid tales?
Jenny Hills of our executive practice explains what charities really pay their CEOs, and why.
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