Debt, rent and other cash collectors: salary in the UK
About £25,147 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +3.1% on last year
£2,503 a month About £2,096 a month after tax 7 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 £21,693 in 2021 to £30,038 in 2026 (+38%); 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 | £15,983 | £18,300 | £21,693 | £23,910 | x |
| 2022 | x | £19,745 | £22,499 | x | x |
| 2023 | x | £21,592 | £24,237 | £26,329 | x |
| 2024 | x | £24,234 | £26,894 | x | x |
| 2025 | x | £26,217 | £29,133 | £33,741 | x |
| 2026 | x | £26,926 | £30,038 | 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.
Half of full-time employees in this occupation earn less than £30,038 a year and half earn more. That is 27% less than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
Ranked by median, it is number 289 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £2,096 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £2,098 in Scotland.
The median for men is £29,529 and for women £30,186, a gap of 2% in women's favour. This compares full-time salaries only and doesn't account for seniority or hours.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | x | x |
| 20th | £26,286 | £2,190 |
| 25th (P25) | £26,926 | £2,244 |
| 30th | £27,389 | £2,282 |
| 40th | £28,587 | £2,382 |
| Median (50th) | £30,038 | £2,503 |
| 60th | £31,927 | £2,661 |
| 70th | £34,988 | £2,916 |
| 75th (P75) | x | x |
| 80th | x | x |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Men and women
| Median | Mean | Jobs (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | £29,529 | £33,534 | 4 |
| Women | £30,186 | £33,276 | x |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £25,147 | £2,096 |
| Scotland | £25,181 | £2,098 |
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 £30,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 66 job titles to SOC 7122 Debt, rent and other cash collectors. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Accounts representative
- Agent-collector
- Arrears collector
- Auctioneer's bailiff
- Authorised collecting officer
- Bailiff
- Cash collector
- Cash converter
- Certificated bailiff
- Club collector
- Collecting agent
- Collection agent
- Collection assistant
- Collection controller
- Collection officer
- Collections advisor
- Collections agent
- Collections controller
- Collections officer
- Collector
- Collector-agent
- Court bailiff
- Credit clearer
- Credit collector
- Data collection agent
- Data collector
- Debt collector
- Debt controller
- Debt recoverer
- Default representative
- Driver and collector
- Enforcement agent
- Football pools agent
- Meter checker
- Meter collector
- Meter inspector
- Meter operative
- Meter reader
- Meter reader inspector
- Mutuality collector
- Parking fee collector
- Pawn broker
- Pawnbroker
- Pier gate keeper
- Pier purser
- Pools collector
- Recoveries team leader
- Rent bailiff
- Rent collector
- Rent inspector
- Senior collector
- Sheriff officer's clerk
- Subscription collector
- Telephone negotiator
- Toll booth attendant
- Toll booth operator
- Toll bridge keeper
- Toll collector
- Toll gate attendant
- Vending assistant
Show all 66 titles
- Vending engineer
- Vending machine attendant
- Vending machine engineer
- Vending machine operative
- Vending machine operator
- Vending operator
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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.