Introduction
COREcruitment is an international recruitment consultancy with a team of over 50 expert consultants covering roles across the service industry, from head office/support roles to FMCG, restaurants, bars, events, venues, tech, I.T., finance, QSR, hotels, leisure, visitor attractions, facilities management…
Our worldwide specialist consultants are based: in the UK (London, Bristol, and the South-West), France (Montpellier), South Africa (Cape Town), Canada (Vancouver), the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and the UAE (Dubai).
Our Executive Search/NED division covers senior/director level placements across all sectors within the agency, both at national and global levels as well as supporting relocation searches.
Working within a business, supporting entry level employees through to their CEO, enables us to gain true insight, and we feel, allows businesses to trust in us as recruitment partners. Whether an organisation is looking for director level support positions such as a HR director or a Head of Supply
Chain or confidentially recruiting for a new CEO, our search options are flexible and adaptable.
As the industry grows and changes, we are finding that businesses are looking for insight when it comes to salaries and benefits packages, especially for executive level positions.
Our salaries benchmark is a helpful guidance tool based on current information collated during screenings and market research.
About this report
This report includes detailed scaled salary information for 109 positions with 6 C-Suite roles, 20 UK global/regional roles, 20 European regional roles, 42 UK local roles and 21 European local roles.
The scope of the data is national and international
The data for each position is broken down in three banding categories:
Band A → Ideal starting salary offer when stepping up into a position. Lowest end of the market’s pay norm.
Minimum experience in the position and still developing relevant skills.
Band B → Salary offer sitting within the 50th percentile; median range of the market. The candidate has an average level of experience and has most of the necessary skills.
Band C → Top end of salary offers for hiring or retaining individuals.
Higher experience, superior skills, finer institutional/business knowledge and exceeding responsibilities. Market’s rarest resource and top talent’s worth according to market key factors and dynamics.
Salary bandings provide:
a standardised framework for setting and comparing salaries across roles and departments. help in maintaining or setting consistency in pay structure. comparison with current compensation packages against industry standards and competitors. support to remain competitive in attracting and retaining talent. predictable salary expenses and aids in financial planning and forecasting. career development and progression support by providing clear salary ranges for different levels of roles. a framework for salary negotiations during recruitment and performance reviews help in maintaining internal equity
About this report
It is not intended as a nominative description of what salaries ought to be but is aimed at presenting the most current salaries in businesses in line with the client’s business within the specific countries or locations
This salary benchmarking survey captures the most detailed available data on any given positions. Competitors’ exact figures on each position’s salary are not known due to the privacy and confidentiality of this data.
COREcruitment are currently exploring ways to more accurately gather a broader, more inclusive range of demographic data from respondents, institutions and businesses throughout the industry.
The data gathered in these reports is subject to change over time and should not be considered as fixed information.
Benefits
Legally mandated benefits
Minimum wage
Overtime
Retirement/pension scheme
Holiday entitlement
Holiday pay
Parental leave (paternity/maternity/adoption leave)
Antenatal care
Statutory sick pay
Extra benefits
Private medical
Car allowance / company car
Bonus(es) which can vary from 50% to 100%
Equities/LTIPs: stock options, restricted stock unites, stock purchase plans, performance shares, incentive stock options, cash bonuses, cliff/graded vesting,…
Pension schemes
Group Life insurance/income protection
Cycle to work scheme
Fully/partial paid public transport
Sabbatical leave
Unlimited annual leave
Flexible working
Discount scheme
Mental health assistance
Financial planning help
Parental leave (above statutory)
Training and coaching sessions
Company discounts
Perks programmes.
Gym membership
Wellbeing funds
Away days or team holidays
Benefits
Legally mandated benefits
Minimum wage
Overtime
Retirement/Public pension plans
Holiday entitlement
Holiday pay
Parental leave (paternity/maternity/adoption leave)
Antenatal care
Statutory sick pay
Caregiver benefits
Health insurance
Unemployment insurance
Extra benefits
Private medical
Car allowance / company car
Bonus(es)
Extra pension schemes
Cycle to work scheme
Company stock options or equity grants
Additional paid time off
Flexible working
Discount schemes
Wellbeing funds
Childcare allowance
Sachbezüge (vouchers) : work meals
Gym subsidies
Business travel insurance
Benefits
Legally mandated benefits
Social security contributions
Health insurance
Unemployment benefits
Pension (67 by 2030)
Annual vacation and vacation pay (in general, 20 days per year)
Public holidays (10)
Sick leave
Work accident insurance
Maternity leave: 15 weeks
Paternity leave: 10 days
Parental leave
Family allowances (based on the number of children)
Training leave
Severance pay
Employee representatives and protection
Meal vouchers (chèques repas)
Eco vouchers (chèques eco)
Company car (and fuel card)
Group insurance (pension plan)
Hospitalisation insurance
Life and disability insurance
Bonuses and profit sharing
Flexible working hours and teleworking
Cafeteria plan (flex reward plan)
Additional vacation days
Work-from-home allowance
Gym memberships or wellness programmes
Mobility budget
Childcare assistance
Communications reimbursement, internet and mobile phone plan (if working from home)
Travel reimbursement
Stock options or equity plans
13th month salary: in most sectors, employees receive a 13th-month salary or holiday pay, paid in two instalments: one before the summer holidays and one before Christmas
Positions
C-SUITE
OPERATIONAL ROLES
Positions
SENIOR REGIONAL ROLES
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE
Positions
EUROPE REGIONAL ROLES - DIRECTORS
SENIOR EUROPEAN REGIONAL ROLES
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE
Positions
EUROPE REGIONAL ROLES - DIRECTORS
SENIOR EUROPEAN REGIONAL ROLES
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE
LONDON – ONSITE ROLES
Levels
Positions
Positions
NORTHWEST – ONSITE ROLES
Positions
NORTHEAST – ONSITE ROLES
Positions
SOUTHWEST – ONSITE ROLES
Positions
SOUTHEAST – ONSITE ROLES
Positions
MIDLANDS – ONSITE ROLES
Positions
BREMEN – ONSITE ROLES
BRUSSELS – ONSITE ROLES
Levels
Positions
ANTWERP – ONSITE ROLES
Levels
Positions
THE HAGUE – ONSITE ROLES
Levels
Positions
Methodology
The scope of the data is national and international (UK, Germany & Belgium).
This report reflects the actual salaries being paid to a sample of businesses related to and in direct competition with CLOCKWISE, such as Silver Square , WeWork (UK – Germany – Belgium) Mindspace (UK – Germany), Huckletree (UK), Regus / Spaces (UK – Germany – Belgium), Orega (UK), Hubble (UK – Germany – Belgium), Fora/The Office Group (UK – Germany), Kiez Büro (Germany), LABS (UK), X+Why (UK), Work.Life (UK), Patch.Work, Knotel.
It is intended to give the most honest and accurate account of compensation level in the specific fields and specific areas.
It is not intended as a nominative description of what salaries ought to be but is aimed at presenting the current salaries in businesses in line with CLOCKWISE businesses and operations.
This salary benchmarking survey could not capture the most detailed data on any given positions as COREcruitment have not been given access to competitors’ exact figures on each position’s salary due to the privacy and confidentiality of this data. However, this data represents the closest and most reflective salary compensations for each mentioned position.
COREcruitment are currently exploring ways to more accurately gather a broader, more inclusive range of demographic data from respondents, institutions and businesses throughout the industry we specialise and operate in.
The data gathered in these reports will change over time and should not be considered as fixed information.
Methodology
As a leading national and international recruitment agency, COREcruitment have access to national and international job boards’ targeted analytics (factual direct market comparison) including but not limited to:
Adzuna Euro Jobs JobFlurry Extra Sonic Jobs Xpat Jobs
CareerJet FM Journal JobLookUp Stepstone Group You Food Job
Careers4a Glassdoor JobLookup Talent Nexus
Caterer Hosco Jobs In Property Talent.com
Catererglobal I Am Expat Jooble The Staff Canteen
COREcruitment.comI-FMJobs
Diversity Jobs Group Job Jar Reed Vacancy Tree
COREcruitment’s own database of over 550,000 contacts (current & previous salary banding)
19+ years of recruitment expertise with a team of 52 field specialist employees: Recruitment Consultants, Senior Consultants, Operational Leads, International Recruiters (UK, France, Netherlands, Canada, USA, South Africa & Middle East), Divisional Director, Managing Director, and Owner.