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What should this role actually pay?

Real market data, not guesswork.

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Choose a job role, a UK town or city, and an experience level — the range updates instantly. Figures are a practical market range for a normally scoped permanent role, not an absolute minimum or maximum, and exclude bonus, car allowance, pension and other benefits.

Medior Payroll Manager · Coventry

£33,333 – £36,667

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Typical: £35,000 per year

Medium-high confidence — strong regional evidence

Methodology

How we build
every figure.

Every range is a real market estimate, not a guess — built from live placements, current vacancy data and official pay statistics, then adjusted for where you actually are.

  1. 01

    What 'range' means

    Each figure is a practical market range for a normally scoped permanent role — the lower-to-upper band most real hires land in, not a rare best-or-worst-case outlier. Bonus, car allowance, pension and equity are excluded throughout.

  2. 02

    How location changes the number

    We start from a UK national benchmark per role, then adjust it for the local market. Major cities use a directly published 2026 city benchmark where one exists; smaller towns and counties are modelled from regional pay data and recruiter guides for that area.

  3. 03

    Why Junior / Medior / Senior

    Each role/location range is split into three even bands — Junior at the lower end, Senior at the top — so you get a realistic figure for where someone actually sits, not just the full spread top to bottom.

How sure are we

Every figure carries
a confidence rating.

We'd rather tell you how solid a number is than quietly hide the difference. Every location in the calculator is tagged with one of three confidence levels behind the scenes.

Confidence · 01

High

A directly published 2026 city salary table exists for this location and role, cross-checked against regional data.

Confidence · 02

Medium-high

Strong regional evidence and clear local signal, even without a directly published city-specific table for every role.

Confidence · 03

Medium

A modelled local estimate built from regional pay and nearby benchmarks — a solid starting point, not a substitute for a live search on a specific hire.

Good to know

Before you take
a figure to the letter.

  • A 'medium' or 'medium-high' confidence figure is a genuine market estimate built from real data — not a claim that one single source published that exact number.
  • Job title scope varies a lot in the market, especially for Finance Manager, Financial Controller, FP&A Manager, Head of Commercial Finance, Group Financial Controller and Finance Director.
  • Industry, qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), company size, team scope and hybrid/office policy can all move real pay materially within — or beyond — the range shown.
  • County and regional-hub entries are intentionally broad averages across every town they cover, not one specific place.

Benchmarked from recruiter salary guides including Robert Half, Reed, Hays and Morgan McKinley, official ONS PAYE regional pay statistics, and current live vacancy evidence — reviewed and refreshed by Transaction Recruitment.