Rail travel assistants: salary in the UK
About £39,084 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +5.8% on last year
£4,116 a month About £3,257 a month after tax 18 thousand full-time jobs
Gross pay before tax, including bonuses, commission and overtime. Not included: benefits in kind such as a company car. About the data
Pay range
The dark part is the middle half of full-time employees (25% to 75%); the light bar runs from 10% to 90%. ONS doesn't publish the highest or lowest salary, and x means a figure wasn't published.
Pay by year
The median went from £33,465 in 2021 to £49,395 in 2026 (+48%); for all full-time employees in the UK it changed by +31% over the same years.
Figures by year
| P10 | P25 | Median | P75 | P90 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | £25,910 | £28,621 | £33,465 | £41,846 | x |
| 2022 | x | £31,328 | £37,774 | £44,207 | x |
| 2023 | £25,358 | £30,019 | £36,227 | £44,838 | x |
| 2024 | x | £35,424 | £41,356 | £48,726 | x |
| 2025 | £31,332 | £38,363 | £46,686 | £54,319 | x |
| 2026 | £31,916 | £39,147 | £49,395 | £57,262 | 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.
Half of full-time employees in this occupation earn less than £49,395 a year and half earn more. That is 21% more than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
The middle half earn between £39,147 and £57,262; one in ten earns less than £31,916.
Ranked by median, it is number 73 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £3,257 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £3,143 in Scotland.
The median for men is £50,787 and for women £43,139, a gap of 15% in men's favour. This compares full-time salaries only and doesn't account for seniority or hours.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | £31,916 | £2,660 |
| 20th | £36,243 | £3,020 |
| 25th (P25) | £39,147 | £3,262 |
| 30th | £42,336 | £3,528 |
| 40th | £47,241 | £3,937 |
| Median (50th) | £49,395 | £4,116 |
| 60th | £51,654 | £4,305 |
| 70th | £55,660 | £4,638 |
| 75th (P75) | £57,262 | £4,772 |
| 80th | £59,831 | £4,986 |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Men and women
| Median | Mean | Jobs (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | £50,787 | £51,338 | 14 |
| Women | £43,139 | £47,908 | x |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £39,084 | £3,257 |
| Scotland | £37,721 | £3,143 |
After Income Tax and National Insurance for 2026 to 2027, with the standard tax code and no pension or student loan. Work out your own take-home pay · Take-home pay on £49,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 45 job titles to SOC 6214 Rail travel assistants. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Call boy
- Captain
- Carriage attendant
- Commercial guard
- Conductor
- Customer adviser
- Customer service assistant
- Excess luggage collector
- Gate line assistant
- Goods porter
- Guard
- Mail porter
- Parcel porter
- Parcels porter
- Passenger assistant
- Passenger guard
- Platform foreman
- Platform inspector
- Porter
- Porter-guard
- Porter-signalman
- Purser
- Railway guard
- Railway station assistant
- Railway stationman
- Retail travel adviser
- Revenue protection assistant
- Revenue protection inspector
- Revenue protection officer
- Sleeping car attendant
- Station assistant
- Station foreman
- Station inspector
- Station supervisor
- Ticket collector
- Ticket examiner
- Ticket inspector
- Train attendant
- Train conductor
- Train crew
- Train despatcher
- Train dispatcher
- Train guard
- Train manager
- Travel assistant
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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.