Finance Director Pay Benchmark
The median published figure in the Finance Director Pay Benchmark is 6.70 percent across 1 source's own page in percent (range 6.70 to 6.70 percent; 2 sources publish a figure), read 12 October 2026.
2 of the 3 named sources read in full publish a figure; 3 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| ONS ASHE bulletin (latest) | 39,039GBP | 2026-10-12 |
| ONS ASHE bulletin 2025 | 6.7% | 2026-10-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (2)
- ONS ASHE bulletin (latest), read 2026-10-12:
Median gross annual earnings for full-time employees were £39,039 in April 2025, compared with £37,439 in April 2024, which is an increase of 4.3%.
- ONS ASHE bulletin 2025, read 2026-10-12:
Managers, directors and senior officials also saw a large increase (6.7%) in median gross weekly earnings for full-time employee jobs.
Read in full, publishes no figure
3 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Michael Page salary guide, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- Robert Half salary guide, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- Institute of Interim Management, read 2026-10-28: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
2 of the 3 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 3 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 4 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 61 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the ONS ASHE median and percentiles of gross annual pay for SOC 1131 financial managers and directors (and the all-employee median for scale), loaded with employer NIC at the current rate above the secondary threshold and the auto-enrolment minimum, to give the true annual cost of a full-time FD; the fractional index's 1-day-a-week fee is set against it as a share
61 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (7)
- ONS ASHE table 14: earnings by occupation (4-digit SOC)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS ASHE bulletin (latest)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS ASHE bulletin 2025(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Michael Page salary guide(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Hays salary guide(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Robert Half salary guide(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Institute of Interim Management(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The median published figure in the Finance Director Pay Benchmark is 6.70 percent across 1 source's own page in percent (range 6.70 to 6.70 percent; 2 sources publish a figure), read 12 October 2026.
2 of the 3 named sources read in full publish a figure; 3 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
Cite as: "fractionalcfocost.co.uk Finance Director Pay Benchmark", updated 2026-10-29, https://fractionalcfocost.co.uk/datasets/finance-director-pay-benchmark/.
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