Printers: salary in the UK
Pay by year
The median went from £25,991 in 2021 to £33,091 in 2025 (+27%); for all full-time employees in the UK it changed by +25% over the same years.
Figures by year
| P10 | P25 | Median | P75 | P90 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | x | £20,513 | £25,991 | x | x |
| 2022 | x | £21,616 | £26,882 | x | x |
| 2023 | x | £23,666 | £29,567 | x | x |
| 2024 | x | £26,225 | £32,050 | x | x |
| 2025 | x | £26,900 | £33,091 | x | x |
| 2026 | x | x | x | x | x |
ONS figures for each year, not adjusted for inflation. Years before 2021 used a different occupation classification, so they can't be compared. Earlier years are ONS's revised figures; the latest is provisional.
ONS didn't publish salary figures for Printers in 2026: too few full-time employees were in the survey sample for a reliable estimate. This is common for jobs where many people are self-employed, because the survey only covers employees.
The wider group Printing Trades (SOC 542) has a median of £30,747 a year.
ONS did publish a mean of £35,003, which is less reliable than a median would be.
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 84 job titles to SOC 5422 Printers. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Block printer
- Bromide printer
- Bronze letter printer
- Bronzer
- Bronzing machinist
- Calico printer
- Cloth printer
- Colour printer
- Colour worker
- Contact printer
- Decorator
- Dial printer
- Digital document specialist
- Digital printer
- Embroidery printer
- Fabric printer
- Film printer
- Flexographic printer
- Foil blocker
- Foreman
- General printer
- Glass printer
- Gold blocker
- Gold printer
- Gravure printer
- Guider
- Hand printer
- Hat printer
- Label printer
- Letterpress printer
- Litho machine minder
- Litho printer
- Lithographic operator
- Lithographic printer
- Machine room foreman
- Map printer
- Mark maker
- Master printer
- Mat printer
- Metal leaf ticket printer
- Multilith operator
- Multilith printer
- Offset litho operator
- Offset litho printer
- Offset lithographic printer
- Offset operator
- Offset printer
- Photographic printer
- Plate printer
- Platen minder
- Press printer
- Press room manager
- Print coordinator
- Print manager
- Print room manager
- Print shop foreman
- Print supervisor
- Print technician
- Printer
- Printer and stationer
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- Printer's bronzer
- Printing foreman
- Printing manager
- Process operator
- Process printer
- Sack printer
- Screen maker
- Screen print manager
- Screen printer
- Silk screen machinist
- Silk screen maker
- Silk screen operator
- Silk screen printer
- Silk screener
- Silver printer
- Stamp maker
- Stationer
- Stationer and printer
- Textile printer
- Ticket maker
- Ticket printer
- Title printer
- Transfer printer
- Wallpaper printer
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Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2026 provisional, Table 14.7a (full-time employees, gross annual pay, UK, tax year ending 5 April 2026). Provisional figures may be revised.