The Datum Report

Occupation 1232 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors

Half of full-time residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors in the UK earn more than £42,700 a year, and half earn less.

Managers and proprietors in this group plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the resources necessary in the provision and running of residential and day care establishments and domiciliary care services for persons who require support or specialised care and/or supervision.

How people enter it

Although there are no pre-set academic entry requirements there are a variety of entry routes. However, entrants must be registered with the relevant statutory body and hold the appropriate qualification for the job they do. Off and on-the-job training is provided, and a range of qualifications are available including NVQs/SVQs in Health and Social Care at levels 3 and 4. Background checks including a DBS check are required.

What the work involves

• determines staffing, financial, material and other short- and long-term requirements
• plans work schedules, assigns tasks and delegates responsibilities to staff
• arranges for payment of bills, keeps accounts and adheres to health, safety and other statutory requirements
• maintains contact between service users and the local community and/or family and friends
• assesses service users’ needs and ensures they have access to health and social care services as required
• creates a friendly, secure atmosphere to gain the trust and confidence of those using the service
• ensures that the physical comfort and all material needs of service users are provided and attempts to resolve problems that may arise

Also called

Care manager · Community centre manager · Day centre manager · Nursing home owner · Manager (sheltered/supported housing) · Residential manager (care/residential home)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors, full-time employees, 2024 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

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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