Care Home Manager Salary in South East

What most care home managers actually earn

Half of care home managers across the UK earn between £31,659 and £51,881. Earning above £51,881 puts you in the top quarter of the profession.

This range is UK-wide — ONS publishes no regional breakdown of the spread for this occupation.

Where this figure comes from

ONS occupation group

Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors

SOC 2020 code

1232

Measure

Gross annual pay, all employees

Edition

ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 provisional

ONS publishes a sampling error of 14.2% 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 “care home manager” as its own category. These figures are for the wider group “Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors”, which includes this role alongside others. ONS group covers residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors.

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.