Printing machine assistants: salary in the UK
About £25,094 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +2.7% on last year
£2,497 a month About £2,091 a month after tax 9 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 £23,082 in 2021 to £29,965 in 2026 (+30%); 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 | x | £19,638 | £23,082 | £29,965 | x |
| 2022 | x | £20,110 | £24,174 | x | x |
| 2023 | x | £22,414 | £26,046 | x | x |
| 2024 | x | £23,729 | £27,396 | £34,123 | x |
| 2025 | x | £25,199 | £29,187 | x | x |
| 2026 | x | £26,900 | £29,965 | £36,344 | 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 £29,965 a year and half earn more. That is 27% less than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
The middle half earn between £26,900 and £36,344.
Ranked by median, it is number 290 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £2,091 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £2,094 in Scotland.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | x | x |
| 20th | £26,433 | £2,203 |
| 25th (P25) | £26,900 | £2,242 |
| 30th | £27,529 | £2,294 |
| 40th | £28,408 | £2,367 |
| Median (50th) | £29,965 | £2,497 |
| 60th | £31,653 | £2,638 |
| 70th | £34,665 | £2,889 |
| 75th (P75) | £36,344 | £3,029 |
| 80th | x | x |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Men and women
| Median | Mean | Jobs (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | £30,766 | £33,500 | 8 |
| Women | x | £26,426 | x |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £25,094 | £2,091 |
| Scotland | £25,129 | £2,094 |
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 142 job titles to SOC 8135 Printing machine assistants. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Arc light printer
- Back tenter
- Beveller
- Bindery technician
- Blue printer
- Box stamper
- Brake hand
- Brakesman
- Brush stamper
- Card puncher
- Clammer
- Clamper
- Cloth stamper
- Collar stamper
- Collating machinist
- Collotype machine manager
- Controller hand
- Crater
- Creaser
- Cutter
- Cylinder machinist
- Decollating machinist
- Die cutter
- Die sinker
- Die stamper
- Drawing office printer
- Duplicating machinist
- Dye line operator
- Dyeline machinist
- Dyeline operator
- Dyeline printer
- Electric bulb stamper
- Embosser
- Feeder
- Finishing operative
- Floor hand
- Fly hand
- Folding machinist
- Folding operator
- General assistant
- Glass cleaner
- Gold stamper
- Gravure machinist
- Gravure operator
- Impression taker
- Label puncher
- Letter cutter
- Letter press machinist
- Letterpress assistant
- Letterpress feeder
- Letterpress machine manager
- Leveller
- Lithographer
- Lithographic machine manager
- Lithographic machinist
- Loader
- Machine boy
- Machine layer-on
- Machine manager
- Machine minder
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- Machine minder's assistant
- Machine room assistant
- Machine setter
- Machine taker-off
- Machinist
- Map maker
- News hand
- Numberer
- Paper puncher
- Parts numberer
- Pattern puncher
- Pattern stamper
- Photo lab assistant
- Photo lab operator
- Photo laboratory technician
- Photo print operator
- Photo technician
- Photogravure machine manager
- Photogravure machinist
- Photostat printer
- Phototype printer
- Plan printer
- Plate cleaner
- Platen feeder
- Platen machinist
- Press assistant
- Press machinist
- Presser
- Print assistant
- Print operator
- Print room assistant
- Print room attendant
- Print shop assistant
- Print worker
- Printer's assistant
- Printer's driver
- Printer's feeder
- Printer's help
- Printer's helper
- Printer's jobber
- Printer's machinist
- Printer's mate
- Printer's operative
- Printer's operator
- Printer's ruler
- Printer's stamper
- Printing assistant
- Printing machine manager
- Printing machine minder
- Printing machinist
- Process worker
- Proofer
- Punch cutter
- Puncher
- Racker
- Reel hand
- Reel ticket maker
- Reeler
- Relief stamper
- Roller cutter
- Rota printer
- Rotary assistant
- Rotary machinist
- Rotary operator
- Rotary presser
- Ruler
- Seal cutter
- Size stamper
- Soap stamper
- Sock stamper
- Stamper
- Table man
- Table worker
- Taker-off
- Teerer
- Tension hand
- Tierer
- Tin plate decorator
- Tin plater
- Tinplate machinist
- Transferer
- Valver
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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.