The Datum Report

Occupation 4141 · Administrative and secretarial occupations

Office managers

Half of full-time office managers in the UK earn more than £38,630 a year, and half earn less.

Office managers plan, organise and co-ordinate the activities and resources of offices within commercial, industrial and other non-governmental organisations and public agencies. (National and local government office managers are classified to unit group 3561: Public services associate professionals.)

How people enter it

Some employers may require A-level or equivalent qualifications, although entry will usually be possible with GCSEs/S grades, other academic qualifications and/or relevant experience. Professional qualifications are available in some areas of work.

What the work involves

• plans work schedules, assigns tasks and delegates responsibilities
• advises on the handling of all correspondence and enquiries relating to accounts, sales, statistical and vacancy records
• ensures that procedures for considering, issuing, amending and endorsing insurance policies are adhered to
• plans, organises and co-ordinates the activities and resources of other offices not elsewhere classified including box offices, other ticket offices and accommodation bureaux

Also called

Business support manager · Office manager · Practice manager · Sales administration manager · Sales office manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for office managers, 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

Customer service managers · Office supervisors