Highest paid sectors in HR revealed

A recent report has found which industries reward their senior HR professionals the most.

Research by Emolument.com, a salary benchmarking website, has uncovered that senior managers in HR with ten to 15 years’ experience, will receive the highest salary in insurance (£99,000). Those working in banking and the financial services (£88,500), technology and telecommunications (£85,000), and retail and trade (£80,500) receive the following highest salaries.

In terms of bonuses, senior HR managers in banking and financial services will receive the highest average bonus of £28,000. This is followed by insurance (£19,894), technology and telecoms (£15,000) retail and trade (£11,000) and manufacturing and industrials (£3,838).

Alice Leguay, Co-Founder & COO at Emolument.com, said: “From our findings,  it seems HR salaries take the extra stress into account with both high fixed and discretionary pay. Beyond HR salaries stands a wider issue of the job description itself and how it is currently being redefined through new tech tools and processes with the need to have a presence on Glassdoor or monitor staff mood. We certainly expect HR as a career to morph substantially in the coming years.”