Harris Hill Salary Centre

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The Harris Hill salary survey 2025 with multiple sections of information including bar graphs and text.
The Harris Hill salary survey 2025. Colorful circles with different areas like Fundraising, Finance, and Marketing.

What's the going rate for your charity job?


How much are others in your position being paid, and where should you set the salary if you're hoping to hire? The brand new 2025 Harris Hill Salary Survey has the answers, with the latest rates and analysis for more than 200 positions in the UK charity and not-for-profit sector.


Find out what's happening in the market and the latest rates for your kind of role, whether you’re a community fundraiser or communications director, digital specialist or data-head, finance manager or HR advisor, and whether you’re with a household-name charity or smaller organisation.​

​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?

With salaries for everyone from junior assistants to senior directors, the survey covers each of our specialist areas: ​


CEOs & Directors • Data Management • Finance • Fundraising • Human Resources • Marketing, PR & Digital â€‹

Operations, Admin & Support • Policy, Advocacy & Campaigns • Projects & Programmes • Temporary & Interim

​Charity salaries: the 10-year trends


While the survey dates back much further, this year marks 10 years of our current methodology, giving us a whole decade's worth of directly comparable data.


So this time, as well as bringing you the latest developments, we're taking the opportunity to zoom out and look at the long-term picture: how have salaries in your kind of charity job changed 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?

Harris Hill Salary Survey 2025. Several webpages and a report cover detailing salary information.

How to see the survey


Simply complete the form below, then click the blue button to submit it and open the survey, which is in PDF format for you to view online or download as you choose.


Alternatively, or if you're having any difficulty accessing the survey, just get in touch with one of our specialist consultants (details here), call our main switchboard on 020 7820 7300, or email us on info@harrishill.co.uk

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