We are serious about being the best we can be for the world’s children. That means we place a premium on attracting the best people to work for us and to lead our organisation.
OUR APPROACH TO PAY
We are committed to being a kind, agile and inclusive organisation. Securing the right people is key to delivering our strategy.
One of the ways we do this is by paying our colleagues a fair salary that is competitive within the charity sector and proportionate to the complexity and responsibilities of each role. We have also signed the pledge to Show the Salary, are accredited by the Living Wage Foundation, and have committed to three key principles for pay:
- equality/fairness
- responsible financial management
- market competitiveness in line with the wider charity sector.
We pay all colleagues a living wage of at least £13.85 per hour in London and £12.60 per hour in the rest of the UK.
In January 2024, staff received a 3.8% pay increase.
We acknowledge that debates over pay – and executive salaries, in particular – are important and reflect genuine public concerns. We are committed to achieving the right balance between recognising these concerns and ensuring our salary levels help attract the talent we need to run an effective and efficient impact-driven multinational organisation. The People Committee oversees our Pay Policy and decides on the salaries of our Chief Executive and executive directors (see our Annual Report)
We publish our approach to pay, including details on our gender pay gap and ethnicity pay gap, in detail on our website. We have also signed the pledge to Show the Salary.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REMUNERATION IN 2024
The trustees delegate the day-to-day running of the organisation to the executive directors, who are considered the key management personnel. Compensation for all Executive Directors employed at Save the Children UK for the year ending 31 December 2024 is detailed here.
Our Chief Executive Officer was paid a full-time equivalent annual salary of £143,000 in 2024.
The ratio of our CEO’s pay to our employees’ is as follows:
- Upper quartile (£57,505): 2.5:1 (2.6:1 in 2023)
- Median pay (£47,748): 3.0:1 (3.1:1 in 2023)
- Lower quartile (£38,873): 3.7:1 (3.7:1 in 2023)
