Bar Manager Salary in South East

What most bar managers actually earn

Half of bar managers in South East earn between £15,991 and £31,822. Earning above £31,822 puts you in the top quarter of the profession.

ONS suppresses the detailed spread for this occupation at regional level, so this range describes the wider “Food Preparation and Hospitality Trades” group in South East.

Where this figure comes from

ONS occupation group

Catering and bar managers

SOC 2020 code

5436

Measure

Gross annual pay, all employees

Edition

ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 provisional

ONS publishes a sampling error of 12.8% for this figure and asks that anything above 10% is treated as imprecise — too few people in this region answered the survey for this occupation. The figure is shown because it is the one ONS published, but it is not firm enough to rank South East against anywhere else, so this page doesn't.

ONS doesn't measure “bar manager” as its own category. These figures are for the wider group “Catering and bar managers”, which includes this role alongside others. ONS group combines catering and bar managers.

Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are estimates from a survey of PAYE jobs and are not financial advice.