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Compass Group is a food service company. They also provide facilities management, guest services and cleaning services.

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What's the average pay for a customer assistant at Compass Group?

The average pay for a customer assistant at Compass Group is between £10.46 and £12.00 per hour.

The top paying employers for retail and sales assistants are Apple, Avanti West Coast and Prada.

Last updated 28 February 2025

What is the Real Living Wage?

The Real Living Wage is a voluntary rate employers can sign up to that is based on the real cost of living.

Location Real Living Wage
London £13.85
Rest of the UK £12.60

What is the legal minimum wage?

The minimum wage is the legal minimum you must be paid per hour.

Age group Legal minimum wage
21 or older £12.21
18-20 £10.00
Under 18 £7.55
Apprentices £7.55

How we know this

Based on data from 16 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between March 2023 and February 2025.

Who pays retail and sales assistants the most?

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What are retail and sales assistants saying about pay at Compass Group?

  • Best thing

    Nothing really I work with some good people that’s about it

    Worst thing

    The whole job even the 10% is a joke we still have to pay for the expensive prices they charge for a drink during shift and the management don’t care

    4.5

    Customer service assistant at Compass Group, January 2025

  • Best thing

    Working in a team
    Helping people in the hospital

    Worst thing

    Doing waste jobs
    The pay is not good
    Not having enough staff

    3.0

    Hospital porter at Compass Group, August 2024

  • Best thing

    Some staff and having weekends and Xmas off

    Worst thing

    Pay rate, as well as no allowance towards travel to get to work as it is about 12 miles one way to get there

    4.5

    Shop assistant at Compass Group, September 2023

  • Best thing

    N/A

    Worst thing

    Always cutting hours, understaffed during busy periods, poor pay

    3.2

    Supervisor at Compass Group, July 2023

  • Best thing

    I like the people I work with

    Worst thing

    The pay , being paid below minimum wages they put on some contracts called spread over where we get a extra 10 day’s holiday a year but they say they can’t pay us minimum wages. they took all the chefs off that contract but say they can’t afford to take us off it . I don’t want the extra holiday I want tne wages I’m entitled to

    1.6

    Steward at Compass Group, February 2023

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