2008 Salary Data
Wondered what has happened to the average salary in 2008? Well, according to our data, this is how the picture currently looks.
Outlined below is a list of 25 popular jobs. We show you what the average income for these jobs was in the UK in February 2008, based on our ongoing salary survey, and what they are now. Data report compiled on: 17th November 2008. The data also shows the number of responses in the 'end 2008' figure. This does not include the top and bottom 5% of responses for each job title which were discarded and not taken into account in the results below. All figure are in pounds sterling (£).
Job Title | Start 08 | End 08 | Change | Sample size |
Manager | 38,079 | 38,264 | +185 | 1382 |
Project Manager | 39,436 | 41,836 | +2400 | 944 |
Account Manager | 27,514 | 30,540 | +3026 | 439 |
Office Manager | 23,254 | 24,783 | +1529 | 369 |
Director | 69,833 | 67,086 | -2747 | 579 |
Consultant | 49,382 | 45,739 | -3643 | 554 |
Pa | 26,168 | 27,091 | +923 | 389 |
Administrator | 16,994 | 18,341 | +1347 | 481 |
Analyst | 29,889 | 36,160 | +6271 | 385 |
Secretary | 20,999 | 20,522 | -477 | 239 |
Business Analyst | 35,751 | 39,739 | +3988 | 337 |
Operations Manager | 34,070 | 38,456 | +4386 | 295 |
Accountant | 30,879 | 33,675 | +2796 | 515 |
Buyer | 26,308 | 30,010 | +3702 | 198 |
It Manager | 38,944 | 37,910 | -1034 | 258 |
Hr Manager | 31,227 | 35,567 | +4340 | 159 |
Engineer | 33,407 | 36,875 | +3468 | 356 |
Managing Director | 85,728 | 73,411 | -12317 | 273 |
Graphic Designer | 20,997 | 23,694 | +2697 | 205 |
Personal Assistant | 21,593 | 25,674 | +4081 | 256 |
Marketing Manager | 33,935 | 42,439 | +8504 | 254 |
Receptionist | 16,340 | 16,977 | +637 | 192 |
Finance Manager | 39,787 | 38,512 | -1275 | 166 |
Sales Manager | 41,417 | 42,350 | +933 | 291 |
Management Accountant | 30,264 | 30,469 | +205 | 148 |