Factory hand salary in the UK (2026)
What does a Factory hand earn?
What employers advertise across the UK.
£27,300 per year, median
the midpoint of 253 advertised salaries from 126 employers, collected 26 Aug 2026 – 20 Oct 2026
about £2,300 a month
- Low
- £24,800
- Median
- £27,300
- Average
- £28,900
- High
- £35,000
Median
Average
Low £24,800
High £35,000
Half of the adverts fall between £25,500 and £31,800. “Low” and “high” are the bottom and top tenth of what is advertised, not the single cheapest and dearest advert — one unusual posting should not decide either end.
How this figure was worked out
- 253 advertised salaries, from 126 different employers.
- Collected between 26 Aug 2026 and 20 Oct 2026.
- Stated in the advert as an hourly rate (162), a yearly figure (91). Hourly and monthly figures are converted to a year at 1,950 hours, so they can be compared with the ones stated annually.
- Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Adverts offering part-time only are left out, because a part-time figure is not comparable with a full-time one.
These are advertised salaries, read from the text of employers’ own job adverts. They are not verified with the employer, they are not what anyone is necessarily paid, and they are not a pay survey.
Open Factory hand jobs
Factory Labourer
Full-time
Factory Operative
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Factory Operative
Meat Production Assistant
Full-time
Factory Worker
from 17 £/hrFull-time
Process Operative
from 14 £/hrFull-time
Factory Operative
Full-time
Factory Operative
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Factory Labourer
Full-time
Production Assistant
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Factory Operative TLNT1_NI
Factory Operative
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Factory Operative
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Production Assistant Baker
Part-time
Site Team Operative
Full-time
Factory Operative
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Production Assistant
Full-time
Process Operative L3
Full-time
Trainee Process Operative
from 15 £/hrFull-time
Meat Production Assistant
Full-time