HR salary survey shows recruitment managers earn more than their non-recruitment colleagues

Recruitment managers are earning on average 45,000, 10% more than the average senior manager working in the human resource function, according to the latest reward survey of over 6,500 HR professionals from Croner Reward in association with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Charles Cotton, CIPD Pay and Reward Adviser, says, ìThe CIPDís 2006 Recruitment, retention and turnover survey finds many organisations have had to adapt their recruitment and retention policies due to the new regulations on age. But it is not just the legal obligations that make recruitment a challenging profession. Demographic changes and global competition add to the mix of challenges recruitment professionals face in the war for talent.

ìThe CIPD survey also shows that UK organisations are continuing to experience recruitment difficulties, with more than eight out of ten employers reporting difficulties in finding staff. In order to remain competitive employers need to develop a good recruitment strategy that will help attract and retain talent. Organisations are realising just how vital recruitment professionals are in this ëwar for talentí and this is being reflected in the salaries that recruiters can now command.î

The average bonus for recruitment managers is 10%. Employee relations managers are the managers, working in the HR profession, that receive the highest bonus of 17% and health and safety managers receive a mere 6% bonus.

Views:

A third of recruitment and selection professionals feel that they are paid below or well below the market rate, 15% feel they are paid above it and 52% think about the same.

Only 5% of recruitment and selection professionals rate their job satisfaction as poor and 58% as excellent or good.

61% of recruitment and selection professionals feel job security is good or excellent.

Earnings by job sector:

Personnel directors in the private sector are paid an average of 80,000.

Personnel directors in manufacturing sector are paid an average of 66,502.

Personnel directors in the public services sector are paid an average 70,000.

Personnel directors in the voluntary sector are paid an 60,000.

The gap is similar at senior manager level where private sector employees earn up to 7% above the all sector average compared with a lag of 11% in the voluntary sector.

Organisation size:

Personnel directors in larger organisations (over 10,000 employees) earn more than twice as much as their counterparts in organisations of fewer than 100 employees.

A head of personnel in a large company earns almost 26,000 more than one working in a small organisation.

Learning and development opportunities and the opportunity for career progression scored more highly as a retention factor in larger organisations.

Other key findings:

Personnel professionals with overseas responsibility have seen some of the highest pay rises 4% to 5.3%.

Reward managers are the highest paid receiving as much as 21% above the average salary for a senior manager (49,700 compared with 41,000).

This yearís survey shows that 97% of organisations offer a pension scheme but of these only 56% overall are defined benefit, compared with 90% in 1994.

Private sector employees tend to work more hours with 61% of them working 40-50 hours a week.

Two thirds (65%) of personnel professionals rate their job satisfaction as good or excellent, and 61% of personnel professionals feel they have good or excellent job security.

23% of respondents are seeking to move job. The main reasons cited are lack of promotion prospects (30%), management (15%) and low salary (11%).