Leisure and theme park attendants: salary in the UK
About £22,354 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +14.8% on last year
£2,180 a month About £1,863 a month after tax
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 £16,298 in 2021 to £26,159 in 2026 (+61%); 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 | x | £16,298 | x | x |
| 2022 | x | x | x | x | x |
| 2023 | x | x | £17,888 | x | x |
| 2024 | x | x | £22,407 | x | x |
| 2025 | x | £17,613 | £22,782 | x | x |
| 2026 | x | x | £26,159 | 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 £26,159 a year and half earn more. That is 36% less than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
Ranked by median, it is number 342 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £1,863 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £1,866 in Scotland.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | x | x |
| 20th | x | x |
| 25th (P25) | x | x |
| 30th | x | x |
| 40th | £25,914 | £2,160 |
| Median (50th) | £26,159 | £2,180 |
| 60th | £26,893 | £2,241 |
| 70th | x | x |
| 75th (P75) | x | x |
| 80th | x | x |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £22,354 | £1,863 |
| Scotland | £22,394 | £1,866 |
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 £26,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 77 job titles to SOC 9267 Leisure and theme park attendants. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Amusement arcade supervisor
- Amusement arcade worker
- Amusement attendant
- Amusement park attendant
- Arcade assistant
- Arcade attendant
- Art gallery assistant
- Attendant
- Ball room attendant
- Balloon crew
- Balloon decorator
- Balloonist
- Billiard hall attendant
- Billiard room steward
- Blue coat
- Call boy
- Camp attendant
- Cinema assistant
- Cinema attendant
- Cinema host
- Cinema operative
- Cinema worker
- Circus hand
- Club attendant
- Concert steward
- Customer assistant
- Customer service assistant
- Dance hall attendant
- Driving range worker
- Event steward
- Face painter
- Fair ground attendant
- Fairground assistant
- Fairground hand
- Fairground worker
- Firing range worker
- Foreman
- Front of house assistant
- Front of house staff
- Funfair assistant
- Funfair attendant
- Gateman
- General assistant
- Golf starter
- Holiday camp worker
- Holiday centre worker
- Hotel attendant
- Lane attendant
- Lane marshall
- Leisure centre worker
- Multifunctional
- Museum attendant
- Party decorator
- Pier attendant
- Playing field attendant
- Porter
- Range superintendent
- Red coat
- Ride operator
- Rides attendant
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- Roadie
- Safety marshall
- Safety steward
- Shooting range worker
- Ski tow operator
- Sports ground steward
- Stall attendant
- Stall holder
- Steward
- Studio attendant
- Team member
- Theatre attendant
- Theme park attendant
- Theme park worker
- Usher
- Usherette
- Wedding decorator
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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.