Charter, sales and yacht management
Business is done ashore: charter brokers arrange yacht weeks, yacht brokers sell yachts, and charter bases and managers keep the fleet ready.
Open positionsCertificates and recognition
- Time to first job
- 2–3 years
- Cost to first job
- Paid apprenticeship
- Salary per month
- €2,160 – €7,900
- Season
- Charter April–Oct, office year-round
Entry route: Business apprenticeship, tourism or experience on board · Last updated: 15/10/2026. No liability is accepted; the linked sources are authoritative.
Duties
- Advising clients, selecting yachts, preparing offers and contracts
- Working with owners, central agents and crews
- Check-in and check-out at the charter base, maintenance and cleaning of the fleet
- Yacht management: budget, flag, class, crew and yard periods
Career path
- Business or tourism training, a degree or experience on board
- Assistant in a charter office or at a charter base
- Charter broker, base manager or yacht broker with your own clients
- Technical management, often after years as a captain or chief engineer
Certificates and recognition
Sales and office jobs have no mandatory certificates. Anyone moving yachts or briefing guests at a charter base needs a skipper licence and a radio certificate.
Where to train
- Training companies and vocational schools: tourism and leisure clerk (DE), travel agency assistant (AT), commercial clerk EFZ (CH)
- Tourism schools, universities of applied sciences and universities with tourism, marketing or business
- Examination bodies for leisure licences and radio certificates, for work at charter bases
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Travel agency assistant (Austria) | €2,160 – €2,290 | Gross starting salary, Austrian collective agreement (2025), 14 payments (AMS) |
| Charter broker, London (fixed salary, 2024 ad) | €3,940 | Fixed salary from a single job ad, excluding commission |
| Technical yacht manager, Monaco (2020 ad) | €5,800 – €7,900 | Fixed salary from a single job ad, excluding commission |
Austria: starting salary under the collective agreement. Charter brokers and yacht brokers usually receive a small fixed salary plus commission; the figures come from individual job ads. In yacht sales, around 10% of the purchase price is a guide value for the brokerage firms’ commission, less for very large yachts.
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Sources
Official bodies, certificate issuers, salary guides and statistics. The current version of each source always prevails.
- AMS Berufslexikon – ReisebüroassistentIn (retrieved on 15/10/2026)
- Yacrew – Stellenanzeige Charter Broker, London (05.12.2024) (retrieved on 15/10/2026)
- Yacrew – Stellenanzeige Technical Manager Superyacht, Monaco (2020) (retrieved on 15/10/2026)
- SuperyachtNews – Brokers’ crossfire (29.09.2025) (retrieved on 15/10/2026)