[2] The Company was originally responsible for the regulation of salt merchants, but began losing control over the trade as the population of London increased and spread outwards from the City after the Industrial Revolution.

[5] The Master Salter for 2024/25 is Piers Vacher,[6][7] supported by the Company Wardens, Commoner Andrew McMurtrie JP,[8] Anthony Cecil, 4th Baron Rockley,[9] and John Stebbing FRCS.

[12] The present Salters' Hall on Fore Street, EC2 dates from 1976,[13] designed by architect Sir Basil Spence, being Grade II-listed in 2010.

[14] A major redevelopment by architects de Metz Forbes Knight[15] including a new entrance pavilion was completed in 2016.

Crest: On a Wreath of the Colours a Cubit Arm erect issuing from Clouds all Proper holding a Covered Salt Argent garnished Or.