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Charity salaries: the ten-year trends

How have charity salaries progressed in the last 10 years? Who's seen the highest and lowest increases? And how has the sector fared against others and the cost of living? Our 2025 Salary Survey gi...

2025 Salary Survey: marketing, PR and digital trends

As a charity professional, your experience of working and job-seeking in the sector will very much depend on the type of work you do, which is why our 2025 Salary Survey looks at the trends and cha...

2025 Salary Survey: fundraising market trends

Driven by high demand and short supply, fundraisers' salaries have been rising in recent years, but how have things changed in the last 12 months? What kind of roles are organisations offering and ...

2025 Salary Survey: market overview

The 2025 Harris Hill Salary Survey is out now (get your copy here), reporting on charity and not-for-profit sector salaries over the last 12 months, with the latest rates and expert insight for ea...

Has remote working replaced human connection?

The way we communicate at work has changed dramatically over the past few years. With an array of digital tools and social platforms at our fingertips, we're communicating and meeting more frequen...

The 2025 Harris Hill Salary Survey is here!

The brand new edition of the annual Harris Hill Salary Survey is now available, including the latest rates for more than 200 positions across the UK charity sector, and plenty of expert insight fro...

News and updates

Behold! Brand new branding for Harris Hill

Or at least, a new logo you’ll be seeing wherever you see us from now on. Find out why, what's new, and what on earth we were thinking as we track our trusty trademark through a brief history of th...

The interview guide for interviewers - part 1

It’s the big day and even your butterflies are nervous. You don’t get many chances so you can’t afford to mess this one up; you’ve got to make them see you’re ideal. But what if they still accept a...

The interview guide for interviewers - part 2

Interview nerves aren’t just for applicants any more. Competition for talent means that those asking the questions need to make a good impression too, yet training is thin on the ground, so we’re s...

Recruitment and retention

Ten reasons you need a recruitment agency

In a world where you can advertise jobs and hold interviews from the comfort of your kitchen table, is there any benefit to bringing professional recruiters on board? We investigate, discover far t...

Connecting Gen Z: how charities can engage the next generation

For Generation Z, work isn’t simply about making ends meet; it’s about making a positive difference and impact. Members of Gen Z tend to be deeply passionate about social change and eager to join ...

Open to all: inclusive recruitment in the charity sector

Given that so many work with marginalised or disadvantaged groups of people, you’d expect charities to be more aware than most of the barriers to employment such groups often face, and the need to ...

2024 Salary Survey: CEO salaries and executive trends

What are charity chief executives really getting paid in 2024? If anyone knows, it’s the experts of our Chief Executive and Director Recruitment Practice, each of whom has been successfully placing...

2024 Salary Survey: finance and temps market trends

What's happening in the job market for those in charity finance, and for temporary and interim staff throughout the sector? Here's what our specialists had to say in our 2024 Salary Survey, where y...

When two become one: rise of the Frankenjob

Introducing the hybrid job: part one thing, part another, the Cockapoo of careers, employment's answer to the reversible duvet, a hastily bodged-together Frankenjob, think of it as you will. These ...

2024 Salary Survey: business services market trends

Among the role-by-role rates you’ll find in our 2024 Salary Survey are those in operations, HR, data, projects, admin and support, central to the day-to-day running of charities and generally makin...

2024 Salary Survey: marketing, PR and digital trends

Focusing on one area of expertise gives our specialists a clear view of what's happening in their field across the sector, insights you'll find in the 2024 Harris Hill Salary Survey, together with ...

2024 Salary Survey: fundraising market trends

The 2024 Harris Hill Salary Survey is out now, and along with current rates for around 200 charity and not for profit positions, we look at trends in the job market by area of expertise and across ...

The 2024 Harris Hill Salary Survey is here!

Our brand new guide to salaries and recruitment trends in the UK charity and not for profit sector is now live in the Harris Hill Salary Centre. What should you be earning in 2024?

Thinking of temping? Here’s what to consider…

Temping offers flexibility, variety and a chance to boost your CV - but is it right for you? Hear from current Harris Hill temps as freelance writer and guest blogger Nicola Greenbrook explores......