Harris Hill Salary Centre

What's the going rate for your charity job?

How much are others in your position being paid, and where should you set the salary if you're hoping to hire?

Find out in the brand new 2026 Harris Hill Salary Survey, with the latest rates for hundreds of charity sector roles, insights from our specialists on current recruitment trends in each area, and some enlightening results from our recent reader survey.

Whether you’re a community fundraiser or communications director, digital specialist or data-head, finance manager, HR advisor or many others, you'll find current market rates for your role across organisations of different sizes.

​How it works and what to expect

With our thanks firstly to the several hundred superb organisations who’ve entrusted us with their recruitment needs since last year’s survey, we start with the salaries of the thousands of roles that have crossed our desks during the past financial year, spanning all major charity departments.

Role by role, our specialists then review the data, using their insight and expertise to adjust for highly unrepresentative cases that might distort the overall picture, and applying their up-to-the-minute knowledge of the wider market to ensure we reflect what’s actually being paid (not just what’s advertised) for each role throughout the sector.

Market trends

To put the figures into context, we also share our specialists' insights on current trends in the charity recruitment market and what's happening in their particular field. Why are fixed term contracts proliferating across the sector? How can candidates get ahead in a more competitive market? And will charities ever run out of inventive new ways to stretch limited budgets ever further?

With salaries for everyone from junior assistants to senior directors, the survey covers each of our specialist areas: ​

CEOs & Directors • Data Management • Finance • Fundraising • Human Resources • Marketing, PR & Digital ​

Operations, Admin & Support • Policy, Advocacy & Campaigns • Projects & Programmes • Temporary & Interim

​Charity salaries: the 10-year trends

While the survey dates back much further, this year marks 10 years of our current methodology, giving us a whole decade's worth of directly comparable data.

So this time, as well as bringing you the latest developments, we're taking the opportunity to zoom out and look at the long-term picture: how have salaries in your kind of charity job changed in the last 10 years, where have the highest increases been, and how do charity salaries since 2015 stack up against those in other sectors, inflation and the cost of living?

​How it works and what to expect

With our thanks firstly to the several hundred superb organisations who’ve entrusted us with their recruitment needs since last year’s survey, we start with the salaries of the thousands of roles that have crossed our desks during the past financial year, spanning all major charity departments.

Role by role, our specialists then review the data, using their insight and expertise to adjust for highly unrepresentative cases that might distort the overall picture, and applying their up-to-the-minute knowledge of the wider market to ensure we reflect what’s actually being paid (not just what’s advertised) for each role throughout the sector.