The Datum Report

Occupation 9269 · Elementary occupations

Other elementary services occupations n.e.c.

Half of full-time other elementary services occupations n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £25,344 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of elementary services occupations not elsewhere classified in minor group 926: Other elementary services occupations.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements. Training is typically received on-the-job. NVQs/SVQs are available in some areas.

What the work involves

• assists hotel guests with luggage etc. on arrival and departure, keeps entrance lobby tidy, deals with guests’ enquiries
• assists in the movement of scenery and other stage equipment
• divines and tells fortunes by various means
• loads numbered balls into bingo machine, starts machine, removes balls and reads numbers, and checks winning bingo cards against numbers drawn
• examines and collects tickets at harbours, piers and similar thoroughfares or establishments not elsewhere classified
• collects payment, issues tickets and monitors the use of bathing huts, changing rooms, bath houses and deck chairs
• receives clothing, luggage and other articles, collects fee and issues ticket and returns item to deposit or on presentation of receipt
• dances in adult entertainment establishments

Also called

Bingo caller · Cloak room attendant · Hotel assistant · Night porter · Porter (residential buildings) · Stage hand (entertainment)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for other elementary services occupations n.e.c., 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

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 4 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

Bar and catering supervisors · Bar staff · Coffee shop workers · Hospital porters · Kitchen and catering assistants · Leisure and theme park attendants · Waiters and waitresses