The Datum Report

Occupation 6137 · Caring, leisure and other service occupations

Care escorts

Half of care escorts in the UK earn more than £12,175 a year, and half earn less.

Care escorts accompany and transport adults and children between their places of residence and other destinations and act as chaperones for under 16s engaged in theatrical, television and film productions.

How people enter it

There are no formal qualifications, other than a clean driving licence with the appropriate classification for those who are driving in addition to escorting. DBS checks are mandatory for those working with vulnerable adults and/or children.

What the work involves

• transports clients safely and securely between approved destinations
• supports and secures chair bound clients
• organises toilet and meal stops, as appropriate
• supervises contact between parents and separated children
• communicates with colleagues and maintains accurate records
• supervises and accompanies children who are taking part in a theatrical, television or film production

Also called

Bus escort · Escort · Passenger assistant · School escort

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for care escorts, all 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 all employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 2 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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