Junior retail & hospitality salaries in the UK

Transparency

Most of these employers will not say what they pay

162 of 256 junior retail & hospitality listings publish a salary. The other 94 say “competitive”, or “dependent on experience”, or nothing at all — which for somebody applying to their first job means finding out how much it pays after the interview.

63% of junior retail & hospitality roles state a salary. Every figure on this page comes from that minority, and no honest number can come from anywhere else.

Geography

Where the roles actually are

London carries 58 roles of the 143 we could place — 41% of the located retail & hospitality listings on the board. The rest are spread thinly enough that most regions have fewer roles than a single London borough.

• London58
• North West19
• East of England16
• South East13
• Scotland10
• South West8

Of 256 listings, 143 name a region specific enough to count. The rest give a town we could not place, or are advertised UK-wide.

Comparison

How this compares with other junior work

The medians across every family we can measure sit within a few thousand pounds of each other, and their middle halves overlap almost completely. The spread inside retail & hospitality alone is £6,500 — wider than the gap between the best and worst paid family on the board.

Which field you enter matters less to your first salary than which employer you land in.

Requirements

What these listings ask for

The skills named most often across junior retail & hospitality adverts on the board. They are what the listings say, not what the job needs — a distinction worth keeping in mind when one of them looks surprising.

• Stock control
• Food hygiene L2
• Compliance
• Health & safety
• Recruitment
• Customer service
• Scheduling
• DBS check