PARAPLANNER SALARY SURVEY
Salary, flexibility and career insight for Paraplanners
A practical view of paraplanner salaries, benefits, flexibility, career progression and working patterns, built from responses across the market.
Use this survey to understand how paraplanners feel about pay, home working, technology, work-life balance and career development and how your current offer or expectations compare with the wider market.
Salary benchmarking
Benefits
Hybrid working
Career progression
AI & technology
The questions this survey answers
Use the survey to benchmark salary, benefits, flexibility and career sentiment across the Paraplanning market.
How competitive are paraplanner salaries?
See how salary ranges compare across the market and where pay satisfaction may be falling short.
What do paraplanners value most?
Understand the role of benefits, flexibility, work-life balance and home working in overall job satisfaction.
How strong is retention risk?
Explore career progression, pay rises, employer tenure and how paraplanners feel about their current role.
How is the role evolving?
See how firms are using technology and AI, what tools paraplanners rely on, and where support may still be lacking.
PARAPLANNER SALARY SURVEY
The standout findings from this year’s survey
These early findings give a clear view of paraplanner pay, working patterns and sentiment across the market.
For Paraplanners, it shows how your package and working setup compare. For hiring managers, it gives useful context around salary positioning, flexibility and retention pressure.
Figures are based on responses to the Paraplanner Salary Survey and are shown as headline market indicators. The full report breaks the data down in more detail.
Headline survey findings
Headline results from this year’s Paraplanner Salary Survey, covering pay, working patterns and salary sentiment.
RESPONSES so far
across the UK
Median salary: all roles, all regions
Hybrid working: mix of office and home
Pay pressure: want higher pay
HOW TO USE THE SURVEY
Turn salary insight into better career and hiring decisions
The survey gives a clearer view of what Paraplanners are earning, how they are working and what they value from an employer.
For Paraplanners, it provides a useful benchmark for salary, benefits, flexibility and progression. For firms, it helps shape more realistic offers, stronger retention conversations and better-informed hiring decisions.
With 10 years’ experience supporting Paraplanners and Financial Planning firms, we use this insight alongside live market conversations to help candidates understand their options and help firms make better hiring and retention decisions.
What this helps you do
Use the survey to benchmark expectations, understand what matters in the market and make more informed conversations around salary, flexibility and progression.
Benchmark salary properly
Compare pay expectations against wider market responses before making a career move, pay review or offer.
Understand what people value
See how benefits, hybrid working, work-life balance and career development influence satisfaction and retention.
Shape stronger conversations
Use market data to support clearer conversations around salary, progression, flexibility and long-term fit.
Make better next-step decisions
Whether you’re considering your next role or planning future team growth, the survey gives useful context before decisions are made.
WHO IT HELPS
Useful whether you’re hiring or benchmarking your own role
The survey is designed to help Paraplanners understand how their role compares, while giving hiring managers practical context around pay, benefits, flexibility and retention.
Paraplanners
Senior Paraplanners
Hiring Managers
Financial Planning Firms
Whether you’re reviewing your own position or planning your next hire, the survey gives a clearer view of what the paraplanning market expects.
Paraplanner Salary Survey 2026