Sir - ‘Security Management Today: The UK's No1 for Security Managers'... So says the strapline on your journal, web site and promotional materials and logos.

Why, then, does your web site contain details of average salaries for all relevant sectors except security managers? We are not overpaid (well, most of us aren't), and we are not frightened about the prospect of the world seeing what we are worth.

I'm sure that most readers would be prepared to submit ‘anonymous' data. On that basis, will you now be considering the addition of even more value to an already excellent and totally worthwhile publication?

David Milner-Scudder, Security Management Specialist, Anglia Support Partnership (NHS)

The Editor replies:

First of all, David, many thanks for taking time out to write to us. The point you make is an entirely valid one... The problem we have is accessing enough raw data.

There are many companies - including the industry's major recruitment consultancies - who collate salary information on an annual basis. We publish the comprehensive BSIA-supported c2c Recruitment Salary Survey each year, for example, but this is primarily targeted at roles for contracted security service providers.

To the best of my knowledge there is no single source for data pertaining solely to security managers working in-house within the private and public sectors which covers all of the major vertical sectors and corporate concerns.

SSR Personnel Services supplies SMT with information on salaries commanded by security managers and directors, with the data gleaned from vacancies arising across the year. Indeed, for your benefit - and that of our entire readership - we have reproduced (below) the latest contribution from SSR's managing director Peter French, which looks at the year-end 2005 salary review for corporate security managers. We hope you find it interesting and thought-provoking.

I would be most interested in publishing a comprehensive article on salaries for in-house professionals. If readers could point us in the right direction as to where we might source credible data in sufficient enough volumes that we can then contemplate producing a reasoned, meaningful and fully-detailed overview we'd be delighted to hear from you.

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SMT