Corporate strategy salary, by level
A corporate strategy manager in London earns a base salary of £70k to £100k plus a cash bonus, so roughly £100k in total. A strategy director reaches around £185k. In-house strategy trades the consulting salary for consulting hours, and the gap narrows as you go up.
Corporate strategy teams hire out of consulting and price against it, so the pay follows the consulting curve at the junior end and diverges above manager, where a corporate ladder pays less cash and more long-term incentive.
Every level
London, corporates rather than consultancies. A strategy team inside a bank pays closer to the bank’s own ladder than to this one.
| Level | Base | Bonus | Total (mid) | Reached at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analyst | £35k to £50k | 5% to 10% | £45k | On joining |
| Senior analyst | £50k to £70k | 5% to 15% | £65k | 2y |
| Manager | £70k to £100k | 10% to 20% | £100k | 4y |
| Senior manager | £95k to £130k | 15% to 25% | £135k | 7y |
| Director | £120k to £170k | 20% to 35% | £185k | 10y |
Figures describe 2025. Same basis as BizOps: about 7% of pay at the median for this occupation family in the official earnings survey, rising with seniority at the employers who run a target.
What the cash figures leave out
In-house strategy is the worst-covered market on this page. No published UK survey names the role, so these bands are built from the occupation family it sits inside and the London ranges for the transformation and commercial finance roles it is recruited alongside. Treat the shape as sound and any single figure as approximate.
Where these numbers come from
Robert Walters UK Salary Survey 20262026
London permanent salary ranges by role and employer size, in data, transformation and commerce and industry.
ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 (provisional)Published 23 October 2025, describing April 2025
UK full-time gross annual pay and incentive pay percentiles by four-digit occupation. Used for the national floor under the London ranges, and for what share of pay a bonus actually is.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Strategy, corporate strategy, corporate development and engagement manager filings, 2024 and 2025 together.
| Level | Base | Bonus | Total (mid) | Reached at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analyst | $75k to $110k | 5% to 15% | $100k | On joining |
| Senior analyst | $100k to $145k | 10% to 20% | $140k | 2y |
| Manager | $120k to $165k | 10% to 20% | $165k | 4y |
| Senior manager | $140k to $180k | 15% to 25% | $190k | 7y |
| Director | $150k to $225k | 20% to 35% | $240k | 10y |
Figures describe 2025. Base is measured: percentiles computed from every 2025 visa disclosure filing for the job titles on this ladder. The bonus column is a target range typical of the sector rather than a measured distribution, and is the softer half of this table.
What the cash figures leave out
The consulting filings folded into the junior rungs are the reason the analyst band starts where it does: a strategy team hires from consulting and pays to pull people out of it. The senior manager rung is thin, and long-term incentives, which are a real part of corporate pay above manager, are not here at all.
Where these numbers come from
US Department of Labor, H-1B Labor Condition Application disclosure data2025 filings
Offered annual base wage by employer, job title and worksite. Percentiles below are computed from those rows, not taken from anyone else’s summary.
Licence: US public domain
Ranges, not offers. Compare every track.
Other tracks
For what these jobs involve day to day and how people get into them, see the career track map. For live application windows, the opportunity tracker.
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