Refuse Collector Salary in East

What a typical refuse collector takes home

On the median of £28,112, 2026/27 tax year, England, Wales and Northern Ireland rates, no pension or student loan.

What most refuse collectors actually earn

Half of refuse collectors in East earn between £7,186 and £22,213. Earning above £22,213 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 “Elementary Cleaning Occupations” group in East.

Where this figure comes from

ONS occupation group

Refuse and salvage occupations

SOC 2020 code

9225

Measure

Gross annual pay, all employees

Edition

ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2026 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 East against anywhere else, so this page doesn't.

ONS doesn't measure “refuse collector” as its own category. These figures are for the wider group “Refuse and salvage occupations”, which includes this role alongside others. ONS group covers refuse and salvage occupations.

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.