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.