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2025 Salary Survey: Charity CEO salaries and executive trends

How much do charity CEOs get paid?The short answer is that although charity leaders tend to earn considerably less than their commercial counterparts, pay still varies enormously, depending on fact...

2025 Salary Survey: temps market trends

Tough economic times have certainly had an impact on the number of permanent hires that charities have been able to make this year, but what about temporary and interim positions?Here's what our T...

2025 Salary Survey: finance market trends

Say you work in finance and many will imagine a world of six-figure salaries, baffling spreadsheets, detached houses in the Home Counties and a statistically inexplicable number of people called St...

2025 Salary Survey: business services market trends

The roles we group under ‘Business Services’ aren’t about raising funds or raising profile, but about delivering an organisation’s work – including operational staff at all levels, project managers...

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

Charities are more aware than most of the barriers to employment that marginalised or disadvantaged groups of people often face, yet research also suggests that sectors like hospitality, arts & ent...

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...