The Datum Report

Occupation 9267 · Elementary occupations

Leisure and theme park attendants

Half of full-time leisure and theme park attendants in the UK earn more than £22,294 a year, and half earn less.

Leisure and theme park attendants monitor the operation of amusement arcades, check tickets of entry to theatres and cinemas and show people to their seats, operate rides at funfairs and theme parks, entertain and look after guests at holiday camps and supervise museums and art galleries.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements. Training is typically received on-the-job.

What the work involves

• checks tickets of people entering cinemas, theatres and sporting events, and directs people to their seats
• provides information and monitors exhibition spaces in museums and art galleries
• operates rides and supervises stalls at fairgrounds and amusement parks
• issues change at amusement arcades, monitors the operation of arcade machines and empties coins from machines
• welcomes holidaymakers, provides information about holiday camp, organises and participates in entertainment and activities for guests

Also called

Arcade assistant · Art gallery assistant · Cinema attendant · Museum attendant · Ride operator · Steward (sports ground) · Usher

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for leisure and theme park attendants, 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. 6 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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