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Growth in average travel salaries stalls in 2025 while recruitment dips

Recruitment
James Chapple
27 January 2026

Growth in average travel salaries slowed significantly last year, while recruitment also stalled, although the average wage for new travel jobs is still up by more than a third compared with 2021, according to C&M Travel Recruitment.

C&M's Barbara Kolosinska
(Credit: C&M Travel Recruitment)

C&M's Barbara Kolosinska (Credit: C&M Travel Recruitment)

C&M's 2025 Travel Salary Index, which was issued on Tuesday (27 January), reveals salaries for average travel jobs increased by 1.78% (£659) in 2025 to a new high of £37,695 – a fourth successive year of wage increases.

However, this compares with year-on-year growth of 8.43% in 2024 (£2,880), 11.56% in 2023 (£3,539) and 11.53% in 2022 (£3,166). Nonetheless, averages wages for new jobs in the travel industry have gone up by 37.22% (£10,244) since 2021 and have grown every year since 2014, with the exception of 2021.