The Datum Report

Occupation 4124 · Administrative and secretarial occupations

Finance officers

Half of full-time finance officers in the UK earn more than £31,943 a year, and half earn less.

Finance officers oversee book-keeping, general accounting and other financial and related clerical functions mainly within local government and a variety of public sector organisations.

How people enter it

Entrants will normally possess GCSEs/S grades (including maths), a finance-related qualification at an appropriate level and have relevant work experience.

What the work involves

• oversees the recording and checking of daily financial transactions, the preparation of provisional balances and reconciliation of accounts
• prepares or arranges the preparation of financial reports for managers
• plans work schedules and assigns tasks to financial clerks
• coordinates the activities and resources of finance departments

Also called

Finance officer · Financial officer (local government) · Regional finance officer (PO)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for finance officers, 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. 10 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

Bank and post office clerks · Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks · Credit controllers · Financial administrative occupations n.e.c.