Salaries for UK business travel jobs jump by 13 per cent

The typical wage for a brand new job in enterprise journey within the UK has elevated by 13 per cent in contrast with 2019 to succeed in simply over £29,000 per yr.

Figures from journey trade recruitment specialist C&M Journey Recruitment discovered that the typical wage for a brand new enterprise journey job was £29,207 through the first half of 2022, in contrast with £25,746 for a similar interval in 2019. 

The 13 per cent wage rise for enterprise journey jobs mirrors the same share improve throughout your entire UK journey trade since 2019.

Recruitment exercise ranges within the UK journey trade hit a report excessive through the first six months of 2022, added C&M, with the variety of candidates positioned in new journey jobs leaping by 625 per cent from 2021. The extent of placements additionally rose by 25 per cent on pre-Covid figures.

Barbara Kolosinska, director at C&M Journey Recruitment and C&M Government Recruitment, mentioned: “It could seem like journey salaries have unexpectedly jumped prior to now yr, however this has been a very long time coming. Journey has all the time been a relatively poorly paid trade and, once you couple this with the present lack of obtainable candidates, wages merely needed to rise. 

“There continues to be a scarcity of skilled candidates within the market, however with the report numbers of vacancies and the extra enticing pay packets presently on supply, we count on many proficient journey professionals will wish to assess the unbelievable number of journey jobs on supply within the second half of the yr.”