Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers: salary in the UK
About £24,056 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +8.6% on last year
£2,377 a month About £2,005 a month after tax 48 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 £20,453 in 2021 to £28,523 in 2026 (+39%); 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 | £15,832 | £17,915 | £20,453 | £24,547 | x |
| 2022 | £16,955 | £19,681 | £22,799 | £26,150 | x |
| 2023 | £17,339 | £20,029 | £23,091 | £27,084 | x |
| 2024 | £20,162 | £22,333 | £25,406 | £28,936 | x |
| 2025 | £21,424 | £23,616 | £26,260 | £30,364 | x |
| 2026 | £23,471 | £25,526 | £28,523 | £33,501 | 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 £28,523 a year and half earn more. That is 30% less than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
The middle half earn between £25,526 and £33,501; one in ten earns less than £23,471.
Ranked by median, it is number 324 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £2,005 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £2,008 in Scotland.
The median for men is £29,339 and for women £27,620, a gap of 6% in men's favour. This compares full-time salaries only and doesn't account for seniority or hours.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | £23,471 | £1,956 |
| 20th | £25,194 | £2,099 |
| 25th (P25) | £25,526 | £2,127 |
| 30th | £26,018 | £2,168 |
| 40th | £27,460 | £2,288 |
| Median (50th) | £28,523 | £2,377 |
| 60th | £30,084 | £2,507 |
| 70th | £32,137 | £2,678 |
| 75th (P75) | £33,501 | £2,792 |
| 80th | £35,283 | £2,940 |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Men and women
| Median | Mean | Jobs (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | £29,339 | £30,925 | 28 |
| Women | £27,620 | £28,962 | 20 |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £24,056 | £2,005 |
| Scotland | £24,096 | £2,008 |
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 £29,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 163 job titles to SOC 9132 Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Ampoule filler
- Bag bundler
- Bag filler
- Bag tier
- Bagger
- Bagger-off
- Bagman
- Bale stitcher
- Baler
- Baler operator
- Baling machinist
- Bander
- Barrel filler
- Bench hand
- Bench worker
- Biscuit packer
- Bolter
- Bottle capper
- Bottle capping machinist
- Bottle filler
- Bottle sighter
- Bottler
- Bottling assistant
- Bottling foreman
- Bottling machinist
- Bottling operator
- Box dresser
- Box filler
- Box fitter
- Box hand
- Box sealer
- Boxer
- Boxer-up
- Bundler
- Bundler and wrapper
- Cable packer
- Cake bagger
- Can feeder
- Can filler
- Can seamer
- Canner
- Cannery worker
- Capper
- Capsuler
- Carder
- Cartoner
- Caser
- Cellophaner
- Checker and packer
- Chlorine packer
- Cigar bander
- Closing machinist
- Cloth maker-up
- Clothing packer
- Coal bagger
- Coder
- Coil bander
- Comb carder
- Cop packer
- Cork fitter
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- Cork hook tier
- Corker
- Counter
- Counterman
- Crater
- Curtain folder
- Cylinder filler
- Distribution operator
- Drum filler
- Egg packer
- Factory packer
- Factory worker
- Fibre bagger
- Filler
- Filling and capping machinist
- Filling machinist
- Finisher
- Foiler
- Folder
- Food packer
- Foreman
- Fruit packer
- Fruit tinner
- General assistant
- Glycerine drummer
- Grosser
- Handkerchief folder
- Hanker
- Hydraulic presser
- Jam finisher
- Jam topper
- Jennier
- Kimballer
- Label sticker
- Labeller
- Labelling machinist
- Lidder
- Line operator
- Linesman
- Locker
- Machinist-packer
- Maker-up
- Meat packer
- Medical filler
- Net folder
- Oil filler
- Oxygen filler
- Packaging operator
- Packaging plant operator
- Packaging technician
- Packer
- Packer and sorter
- Packer and stacker
- Packer-labourer
- Packing assistant
- Packing machinist
- Packing operative
- Packing operator
- Packing room foreman
- Packing supervisor
- Pager
- Paint filler
- Pairer
- Palletiser
- Paper baler
- Paper capper
- Paper presser
- Paperer
- Parceller
- Picker-packer
- Pickle filler
- Piece maker-up
- Polish filler
- Presser
- Process operator
- Process worker
- Putter-up
- Ream tier
- Ribboner
- Roper
- Salle baler
- Seaming machinist
- Shrimp potter
- Smallware maker-up
- Spool maker-up
- Sterile filler
- Sticker
- Tabber
- Tare man
- Ticketer
- Tinner
- Topper
- Varnish filler
- Warehouse packer
- Waste bundler
- Watercress buncher
- White room man
- Wine cooper
- Wool packer
- Wrapper
- Wrapper-up
- Wrapping machinist
- Yarn maker-up
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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.