Office, marketing and customer care
Charter companies, shipyards and yacht brokers need specialists for the office, accounting, marketing and customer care, often multilingual.
Open positionsCertificates and recognition
- Time to first job
- 3 years
- Cost to first job
- Paid apprenticeship
- Salary per month
- €1,990 – €5,289
- Season
- Year-round
Entry route: Business apprenticeship or school · Last updated: 15/10/2026. No liability is accepted; the linked sources are authoritative.
Duties
- Bookings, contracts and correspondence in several languages
- Accounting, invoices, commissions and payments
- Marketing: website, social media, boat shows and brochures
- Customer service before, during and after the trip
Career path
- Business apprenticeship, commercial school or degree
- Assistant in a charter office, shipyard or brokerage
- Specialist in accounting, marketing or customer care
- Team leader or move into sales and charter
Certificates and recognition
Office jobs require no maritime certificates. Languages and experience with booking systems are an advantage.
Where to train
- Training companies and vocational schools: office management clerk (DE), office clerk (AT), commercial clerk EFZ (CH)
- Commercial schools and colleges, universities of applied sciences and universities
- Further training in accounting, marketing and languages at chambers and education institutes
We deliberately name no individual schools and receive no commission. Before booking, check that the provider is approved for the certificate you need and for the flag state.
Salary
| Position | Per month | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Office and secretarial work (Germany) | €4,037 | Gross median, full time, whole occupational group, Germany, 31 Dec 2025 (BA statistics) |
| Accounting, controlling and auditing (Germany) | €5,289 | Gross median, full time, whole occupational group, Germany, 31 Dec 2025 (BA statistics) |
| Advertising, marketing and media (Germany) | €5,046 | Gross median, full time, whole occupational group, Germany, 31 Dec 2025 (BA statistics) |
| Office clerk (Austria) | €2,190 – €2,820 | Gross starting salary, Austrian collective agreement (2025), 14 payments (AMS) |
| Accountant (Austria) | €2,190 – €3,490 | Gross starting salary, Austrian collective agreement (2025), 14 payments (AMS) |
| Marketing assistant (Austria) | €1,990 – €2,910 | Gross starting salary, Austrian collective agreement (2025), 14 payments (AMS) |
Germany: gross median, full time, for the whole occupational group across all experience levels (BA statistics, 31 Dec 2025); figures for individual occupations are shown in the BA’s Entgeltatlas. Austria: gross starting salary under the collective agreement, 14 payments. There are no separate official figures for the yachting industry itself.
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Sources
Official bodies, certificate issuers, salary guides and statistics. The current version of each source always prevails.
- Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit – Sozialversicherungspflichtige Bruttomonatsentgelte (Jahreszahlen), Stichtag 31.12.2025, Tabelle 5.1 nach KldB 2010 (retrieved on 15/10/2026)
- Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit – KldB 2010, Fassung 2020: Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Berufsbenennungen (20.01.2026) (retrieved on 15/10/2026)
- Bundesagentur für Arbeit – Entgeltatlas (retrieved on 15/10/2026)
- AMS Berufslexikon – Bürokaufmann/-frau (retrieved on 15/10/2026)
- AMS Berufslexikon – BuchhalterIn (retrieved on 15/10/2026)
- AMS Berufslexikon – MarketingassistentIn (retrieved on 15/10/2026)
- Bundesamt für Statistik – Medienmitteilung: 2024 lag der Medianlohn bei 7024 Franken brutto (25.11.2025) (retrieved on 15/10/2026)