Europe Salary Benchmarking by COREcruitment

EUROPE SALARY BENCHMARKING 2024

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 specific full-time professional positions across the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.

The scope of the data is national (UK) and international

The data for each position is broken down in three banding categories:

Band A → Entry level / lowest end of the market’s pay norm.

Minimum experience

Band B → Median range of the market.

Average level of experience with 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. 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.

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.

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UNITED KINGDOM

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

- £100,000

- £125,000+ PURCHASING MANAGER

- £47,000

- £70,000

- £92,000

HUMAN RESOURCES

FINANCE

MARKETING

GENERAL

Positions

MANAGER

GERMANY

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

GENERAL

Positions

FRANCE

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

GENERAL

Positions

SPAIN

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

HUMAN RESOURCES

MARKETING

GENERAL

Positions

PORTUGAL

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

BACK OF HOUSE SUPERVISOR From 10€/hour minimum (21,000€ to 25,000€)

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

GENERAL

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

BACK OF HOUSE SUPERVISOR From 11.70€/hour minimum (25,550€/year)

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

Positions

HOSPITALITY FOOD & BEVERAGES

GENERAL

Positions

THE NETHERLANDS

HOSPITALITY & FOOD & BEVERAGE

SALARY CHECKER – 2024

POSITIONS

GROUP HR DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE CHEF

CHEF

TALENT ACQUISITION MANAGER

HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER

HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR

FACILITIES MANAGER

HOTEL GENERAL MANAGER

RESERVATIONS MANAGER

MARKETING MANAGER

–

- 70,000€

- 140,000€

- 50,000€

- 45,000€

- 55,000€

FRONT OFFICE MANAGER 29,000€ – 35,000€ 35,000€ - 42,000€

FRONT OFFICE ASSISTANT MANAGER

FOOD & BEVERAGE MANAGER

HOUSEKEEPING MANAGER

RESTAURANT MANAGER

- 68,000€

- 55,000€ 55,000€ - 60,000€ BAR MANAGER

POSITIONS

BELGIUM

HOSPITALITY & FOOD & BEVERAGE

SALARY CHECKER – 2024

GROUP HR DIRECTOR

CULINARY DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE CHEF

HEAD CHEF

TALENT ACQUISITION MANAGER

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR

FINANCE MANAGER

FACILITIES MANAGER

HOTEL GENERAL MANAGER

SALES MANAGER

RESERVATIONS MANAGER

MARKETING MANAGER

FRONT OFFICE MANAGER

FRONT OFFICE ASSISTANT MANAGER

- 100,000€

- 85,000€

- 80,000€

- 70.000€

- 45,000€

- 65,000€

- 110,000

- 45,000€

- 115,000€

- 70,000€

- 110,000€

- 90,000€

- 85,000€

- 80,000€

- 50,000€

- 75,000€

- 125,000€

- 85,000€

- 55,000€

- 135,000€

- 85,000€

- 35,000€

- 50,000€ 50,000€ - 58,000€

–

- 43,000€ FOOD & BEVERAGE MANAGER

HOUSEKEEPING MANAGER

RESTAURANT MANAGER

* for high-end & luxury operations

Band A = entry and average salary market offers

Band B = higher skills and business influence/responsibilities – Top end operators & operations

International Sponsorship

Organisations in the United Kingdom and Australia can expand recruitment activity internationally by employing overseas nationals via varioussponsorshipoptions.Oursistercompany The Cavalry Global offers these services for international recruitment and search as well as employersponsoredmigrationservices.

Employers must be approved for sponsorship by either the UK Home Office or Australian Department of Home Affairs. This will enable sponsorship of skilled and qualified individuals for employment in Hospitalityrolesoveranumberofyears.Organisationsoftenconsiderand value the long term benefits of these sponsorship programs when operatinginwelldocumentedskillshortageareas.

Accessing sponsorship pathways for International employees requires organisations to meet a specified minimum salary level. These are listed below for United Kingdom and Australia. Individuals can only be sponsoredforpositionsofferingsalariesinexcessoftheseamounts.

In addition to minimum salary levels, there are a range of other requirements for sponsorship and visa application. These requirements canbenavigatedeasilywithappropriateguidance,enablingorganisations to access the global labour market to add valuable skills and long term retentiontohospitalityindustryteams.

Visa type: SkilledWorkerVisa

Minimumsalaryforalloccupations:£38,700

Visa type: TemporarySkillShortageVisa

Minimumsalaryforalloccupations:AUD$73,150

UNITED KINGDOM

AUSTRALIA