# 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.

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**Median published figure:** 6.7 % (range 6.7 to 6.7 %; 1 published figures; 2 of 3 sources read publish one).

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 source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| [ONS ASHE bulletin (latest)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/latest) | 39,039 GBP | 2026-10-12 |
| [ONS ASHE bulletin 2025](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2025) | 6.7 % | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (2)

- [ONS ASHE bulletin (latest)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/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](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/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

- [Michael Page salary guide](https://www.michaelpage.co.uk/salary-guide), read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Robert Half salary guide](https://www.roberthalf.com/gb/en/insights/salary-guide), read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Institute of Interim Management](https://www.iim.org.uk/), 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

## Sources

- [ONS ASHE table 14: earnings by occupation (4-digit SOC)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS ASHE bulletin (latest)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/latest) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS ASHE bulletin 2025](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2025) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Michael Page salary guide](https://www.michaelpage.co.uk/salary-guide) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Hays salary guide](https://www.hays.co.uk/salary-guide) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Robert Half salary guide](https://www.roberthalf.com/gb/en/insights/salary-guide) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Institute of Interim Management](https://www.iim.org.uk/) (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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