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The Harris Hill & CharityJob 2019 Salary Report: the essential guide to charity salaries

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Welcome to the 2019 Salary Report, your definitive guide to salaries in the UK charity sector. 

With huge appreciation for all the enquiries we've already had about this year's release (and genuinely delighted by the demand!) we’re exceptionally pleased to bring you this brand new report.

It's the 14th annual salary survey from Harris Hill, based on the thousands of charity vacancies we’ve worked on during the year: but this time that’s only half the story.

To reflect the wider sector as accurately as possible we wanted to cover an even broader selection of roles, advertised by charities directly and recruiters like ourselves. So who better to ask than the experts at the UK’s largest specialist job board for not for profit, NGO, social enterprise, CIC and voluntary jobs, home to thousands of charity jobs every year?

Happily they agreed, so we've been delighted to collaborate with CharityJob on this year’s report, bringing fresh perspective and insight, and a wealth of information that's helped to build our biggest, most accurate and comprehensive salary guide to date, based on no fewer than 45,000 genuine UK charity and not for profit vacancies from the past financial year.

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What's new?

► In a forthcoming post we'll look at how the new approach has informed the final figures (for those who'd like to know more) and highlight some of the other key new features in this year's report.

► Look out too for the launch of a full digital version over atCharityJob, and here as part of our brand new Harris Hill Salary Centre, under construction as we speak to create a home for all things salary-related, all launching within the next few weeks!



Read the new report

We didn't want to keep you waiting a moment longer though, so with no further delay - except to sincerely thank the team at CharityJob (in particular content & SEO lead Stephanie Dotto and marketing manager Jade Phillips) for their tremendous help - we're delighted to bring you the full report to view or download in pdf format from the links below.

In this year's 24-page report, you'll find candidate insights, market developments and recruitment trends, and salaries for charity and not for profit positions at all levels in:







  • Admin & Support

  • Events

  • Policy & Research


  • Advocacy

  • Finance

  • PR

  • Campaigns

  • General Fundraising

  • Projects & Programmes

  • Communications

  • Human Resources

  • Prospect Research

  • Community Fundraising

  • IT

  • Supporter Services

  • Corporate Fundraising

  • Legacies

  • Trust & Statutory Fundraising

  • Data Management

  • Major Donor Fundraising

  • Volunteer Management

  • Digital

  • Marketing

  • ...plus updates from our specialists on current rates for temporary, interimand senior executiveroles.

  • Direct Marketing

  • Operations







Click below for your preferred file size (screen resolution will suit most uses), or alternatively contact our consultants on020 7820 7300if you have any queries on salaries in these areas, who may also be able to send you a print copy of the booklet, subject to availability.



We hope you'll find it a valuable and informative resource, and for more information you can also contact CharityJobon 020 8939 8430, our consultants on the number above or send us an email- and look out for the full digital editions coming very soon!




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