The Datum Report

Occupation 1139 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Functional managers and directors n.e.c.

Half of full-time functional managers and directors n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £75,711 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of senior management tasks in respect of other specialist functions or fields of activity in organisations not elsewhere classified in minor group 113: Functional managers and directors.

How people enter it

Entry standards will vary according to the specific function and requirements of the organisation concerned, as will options for training off and on-the-job.

What the work involves

• helps to formulate and implement local government policy and ensures legal and statutory provisions are observed
• organises local authority office work and resources, negotiates contracted out services
• plans, organises, coordinates and directs the resources of their organisation
• formulates and directs the implementation of an organisation’s policies
• drives innovation in the working practices of their organisation
• represents union, association or business in consultation and negotiation with government, employees and other bodies
• stimulates public interest by providing publicity, giving lectures and interviews
• directs or undertakes the preparation, publication and dissemination of reports and other information pertaining to the organisation

Also called

Area secretary (trade association) · Chief officer (local government) · Clerk to the county council · General Secretary (trade union) · Town Clerk

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for functional managers and directors n.e.c., full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 8 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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