The Datum Report

Occupation 1225 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Travel agency managers and proprietors

Half of full-time travel agency managers and proprietors in the UK earn more than £35,105 a year, and half earn less.

Travel agency managers and proprietors plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the resources and activities of travel agencies and booking offices.

How people enter it

Entry is most common with GCSEs/S grades but is possible with other academic qualifications and/or relevant experience. Off and on-the-job training is available. BTEC/SQA awards and NVQs/SVQs at level 3 are available.

What the work involves

• plans work schedules and assigns tasks and responsibilities
• co-ordinates the activities of clerical, secretarial and other staff
• discusses client’s requirements and advises on road, rail, air and sea travel and accommodation
• makes and confirms travel and accommodation bookings, arranges group holidays, tours and individual itineraries
• advises on currency and passport/visa regulations and any necessary health precautions needed
• determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs

Also called

Branch manager (travel agents) · Tourist information manager · Travel agency owner · Travel manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for travel agency 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

Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors · Leisure and sports managers and proprietors · Publicans and managers of licensed premises · Restaurant and catering establishment managers and proprietors