The Datum Report

Occupation 1221 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors

Half of full-time hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors in the UK earn more than £36,419 a year, and half earn less.

Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the activities and resources of halls of residence, hotels, hostels, caravan sites, holiday camps, holiday flats and chalets, and organise the domestic, catering, and entertainment facilities on passenger ships.

How people enter it

Entry is possible with a variety of academic qualifications and/or relevant experience. Candidates for these usually require a BTEC/SQA award, a degree or equivalent qualification, or a professional qualification. Off and on-the-job training is provided, and large hotel chains normally offer management trainee schemes. NVQs/SVQs in management for hospitality, leisure and tourism are available at levels 3 and 4 and apprenticeships at level 3.

What the work involves

• analyses demand and decides on type, standard and cost of services to be offered
• determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs
• ensures physical comfort of residents or passengers and makes special arrangements for children, the elderly and the infirm if required
• approves and arranges shipboard entertainment and shore trips and liaises with ship’s agent to ensure that ship is adequately provisioned
• arranges for payment of bills, keeps accounts and ensures adherence to licensing and other statutory regulations

Also called

Caravan park owner · Hotel manager · Manager (passenger ships) · Service flats manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors, 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. 1 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

Classified alongside this

Leisure and sports managers and proprietors · Publicans and managers of licensed premises · Restaurant and catering establishment managers and proprietors · Travel agency managers and proprietors