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UK: New CSR professionals salary survey

The corporate social responsibility (CSR) profession is now fully entrenched in UK business, according to a new salary survey by the consultancy Acona, recruitment agency Acre Resources and the Ethical Performance business newsletter. There are now an estimated 2000 CSR managers working for UK companies, compared with virtually none ten years ago. A quarter of these control budgets of more than £1million a year and a third work in teams of more than four people.

The study shows that the CSR profession is mainly to be found in large companies - the FTSE100 and, to a lesser extent, the FTSE250. The average wage of a CSR professional is between £40,000 and £60,000 a year, with 40 per cent of the sample earning that amount. The profession is evenly split between men and women (51 per cent female to 49 per cent male), yet there is a marked gap in the pay levels of the two sexes. A significantly larger proportion of men are in the top pay band, which indicates that men are more likely to occupy senior positions at managerial and director levels.

The highest priority of CSR professionals was working on environmental policies and programmes, including on climate change, cited by 32 per cent of respondents. Other priority areas were compiling the company's annual corporate responsibility report (29 per cent), community involvement (21 per cent) and conducting dialogue on social and environmental issues with stakeholders (10 per cent). To download the survey, go to https://www.ethicalperformance.com/recruitment/salarysurvey07.php. (Source: Ethical Performance)

28 March 2008