UK professions
Professions
The family you say you are in, above the job title you hold. How you get in, who employs it, and what it pays.
- £26,851 to £57,529 HR and people Hiring, keeping and developing the people an organisation runs on, and holding the conversations nobody volunteers for. View
- £28,532 to £76,447 Finance and accounting The numbers an organisation is run and judged on, and being the person trusted to produce them. View
- £35,128 to £91,671 Technology and data Building and running the systems everyone else depends on, and the data work that is quietly becoming part of every other job. View
- £28,745 to £94,135 Sales and business development Persuading somebody to buy, and being able to say afterwards why it worked when it did. View
- £27,035 to £37,535 Customer service Dealing with people who are already unhappy, and the distance between calming a call and actually solving the problem. View
- £35,751 to £59,834 Project management Getting something delivered, with a date on it, through people who do not report to you. View
- £32,510 to £94,135 Marketing and communications Getting an organisation understood by people who were not looking for it, and being able to show what worked. View
- £28,294 to £75,711 Operations and business management Making an organisation work as a thing rather than as a set of parts, and being the person who notices when it stops. View
- £26,968 to £56,977 Legal and compliance Knowing what the rules actually say, and being the person other people check with before they act. View
These are the office and professional families this site is built for. Pay figures are ONS medians for the occupations each family covers, never an average across a profession, because no such figure is measured.