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Pay packet | HR salaries sit below UK average earnings

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HR salaries sit below UK average earnings

A new survey has found that HR professionals are taking home an average salary of £23,583 which is below the UK average.

With Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, as compiled by Ezra, finding that the UK average is circa £25,000, it appears that those in the people function are taking home six per cent less than average pay.

Not all bad news

Yet, it’s not all bad news. Ezra research found that some average HR pay packets sit above average pay for the region.

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