“What’s the going rate for an HR professional these days?”
A question many business leaders face when hiring or promoting HR staff.
For small and medium sized business, it can be challenging to get this figure right, especially if it’s your first HR hire and you’ve got nothing to compare to.
You might be unsure of the tools and resources that offer salary insight? Or perhaps you’re feeling overwhelmed by the volume of information and feel unenthused about diving in…? After all, your time is precious and you don’t have the bandwidth (or inclination) to wade through long PDFs and benchmarking tables.
You need an accurate answer to your question, quickly.
(… ideally without having to provide your email address and personal salary info, whilst signing up to a newsletter that’s guaranteed to ‘add value’ ? ).
You want to:
- Understand the market rate for hiring HR professionals
- Ensure your HR staff are paid what they’re worth
- Ensure your salary packages are competitive and are attracting the best candidates
HR Salary Guides UK
To protect your time, we’ve reviewed 7 UK HR salary guides and given them a star rating from 0-5.
Peeq’s ratings reflect how HR specific the information is and how quickly you are able to extract some relevant data.
The HR Salary Guides Reviewed:
- LinkedIn – Salary
- Glassdoor – Discover Salaries
- Indeed – Find Salaries
- Morgan McKinley – UK Salary Guide Calculator 2021
- Reed – Salary Guide 2021
- Michael Page – Salary & Skills Guide for human resources 2021
- Robert Half – HR & Business Administration – Hiring Trends
Which 2021 HR Salary Guide Should I Use?
For each salary guide we have included a ‘live example’ to benchmark the average salary of an ‘HR Manager in London’ to illustrate how the banding will vary from guide to guide.
1. LinkedIn – Salary
Peeq’s recommended tool
2. Glassdoor – Discover Salaries
3. Indeed – Find Salaries
4. Morgan McKinley – UK Salary Guide Calculator 2021
5. Reed – Salary Guide 2021
6. Michael Page – Salary & Skills Guide for human resources 2021
7. Robert Half – HR & Business Administration – Hiring Trends
All 7 of these HR salary guides offer value in different ways. However, whilst many large recruitment agencies attempt to provide their own salary benchmarking data, the big names in our industry really seem to be the authority on ‘what to pay’ (LinkedIn, Glassdoor and Indeed). This is due to the vast amount of relevant data being constantly collected on numerous role types and locations. In our opinion, it makes these outlets the most reliable starting point for salary determination.
However, whilst a salary guide is useful, it should never be used in isolation. There are numerous contributing factors that relate to determining a salary such as location, years experience, industry, availability of talent, existing internal pay structure and other external economic influences.
It’s important to consider all these factors when determining pay. This is where a search partner or specialist HR recruitment agency can offer great value on providing some additional context to help inform your thinking.
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