The Datum Report

Occupation 6250 · Caring, leisure and other service occupations

Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors

Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the activities and resources bed and breakfasts and guest houses.

How people enter it

No formal qualifications are required for entry. A range of relevant courses in hospitality and management are available.

What the work involves

Also called

Guest house owner · Landlady (guest house)

What it pays

MeasureHoursBasisPeriodValueSource
6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None None 2026-03 5,700.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None None 2026-03 6,200.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None None 2026-03 8,100.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None None 2026-03 — ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
Not published: Estimate is less than 500
6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None None 2026-03 1,900.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None None 2026-03 8,500.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None None 2026-03 600.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)

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.

RegionMeasureHoursValuePeriod
East 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None 3,000.00 2026-03
East Midlands 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None withheld 2026-03
London 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None withheld 2026-03
North East 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None withheld 2026-03
North West 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None withheld 2026-03
Northern Ireland 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None withheld 2026-03
Scotland 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None 1,900.00 2026-03
South East 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None withheld 2026-03
South West 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None 1,300.00 2026-03
Wales 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None 600.00 2026-03
West Midlands 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None 800.00 2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber 6250 : Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors None withheld 2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors vary by region?

ONS publishes regional pay for this occupation where the survey sample supports it — 5 of 12 cells on this page. The rest are withheld by ONS, and are shown as withheld with the reason, rather than left out.

Where do these pay figures come from?

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, published by the Office for National Statistics. Figures are shown exactly as ONS publishes them — we do not adjust, model or fill them in, and every number on this page carries the series and period it came from.