People in management CSR jobs in companies can expect to earn an
average of £39,700 ($69,400) a year, an Ethical Performance survey
suggests.
Data on externally advertised vacancies collected by EP during the
past two years has revealed that middle managers in corporate
responsibility roles in companies typically earn more than the £32,200
average for CSR managerial roles in all sectors.
The most
common salary band for CSR posts at all types of employer is
£25,000–£35,000, with the voluntary sector generally at the lower end
of this range.
Just under a third of all the CSR jobs
covered in the survey paid more than £35,000. Of these jobs, the
majority were in the private sector, with most of the remainder in the
public sector.
The analysis of 192 jobs advertised on the
Ethical Performance recruitment site shows that just 45 per cent wanted
applicants qualified to degree level or higher, while the other 55 per
cent did not ask for qualifications.
CSR recruitment advisers
said the figures generally confirmed their impressions of the field.
‘In a sector as diverse as CSR it’s difficult to state a clear salary
band, but EP’s results do reflect the kind of pay scales we’ve seen
developing over the past couple of years,’ said Tom Leathes, director
of the UK-based CSR recruitment firm Acre Resources.
‘We’ve
found that salaries are highest where corporate responsibility is a key
issue to a company’s brand – rather than a pure compliance issue,’
added Leathes.
Almost two-thirds of the jobs advertised did
not stipulate a particular level of experience, with the remainder
requiring on average four and a half years’ experience.
Multilingual applicants were at an advantage – one in ten posts required a second or third language.
The
vast majority of the posts were in the UK or the US, and average salary
levels in the two countries were broadly similar. The highest salary
advertised approached £63,000.
Claire Skinner, managing
director of recruitment firm Ruston Wheb, said the findings showed that
companies ‘are staffing up on CSR at a relatively junior level’, but
added that there is ‘increased activity at a more senior level,’ where
recruitment tends to be through agencies.
Skinner said a head of
CSR at a major UK company could now expect to be paid ‘a six-figure
salary with bonuses’, while a senior consultant with 10 years
experience can command between £65,000 and £95,000 a year.
