Traditional job salaries

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I've been thinking today, due to the talk of the living wage, how in the past is has been fairly common for families with parents working very normal jobs to be able to buy what we consider now unobtainable houses for a lot of young people.

Being the very nosy person I am, I decided to look up how much these traditional professions earn but I can't say I believe it.

Mumsnet is skewed of course on the 'what do you earn?' threads so I would be very interested if anyone knew the average salary of say a postman, or a bin man etc. No other reason than being nosy.

Following! I would be interested to know how much PAs / personal secretaries to a company director earns if any of them are on here...

There's posties being advertised for locally with a starting hourly rate of £9.99 rising to £10.54 after 6 months & then £11.10 after 12... but it's a 25hr week so an annual salary of £12,987/£13,702/£14,430

I don’t work as a postie or binwoman but I’ve negotiated a lot around salaries ,for public sector workers and unions and will say that they’re paid a lot more than most people think.

Manual workers in local authorities often have very generous allowances that aren’t advertised with salary on job ads, and that drives the take-home pay up a lot.

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PAs and admin staff get paid a lot more in London. I know you could say that of many jobs, but it's particularly true of PA/admin/ officey support positions. People commute in from quite a long way away, and even after travel costs they have a higher disposable income than if they'd worked locally.

Agree with the above that public sector salaries can be pretty good particularly when you factor in flexibility, pension & the fact they can be happy to fund additional training/qualifications.

Some essential job/salaries im aware of;

Social worker 32k - 42k
Postman 25k
I think binmen get maybe £8+ an hour.

These are all London salaries.

you can see some salaries here

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SID=cGFnZWNsYXNzPUpvYnMmdXNlcnNlYXJjaGNvbnRleHQ9NjIxMjgxNzYma2V5PTUwNzAwMDAmcGFnZWFjdGlvbj1zZWFyY2hieWNvbnRleHRpZCZyZXFzaWc9MTUzNDc5OTYwNy04YWIyYzZiNmZjOTQyODE3NzFjNDliNThjMDUxZTllODY4NDE0M2Q1

www.tes.com/jobs/search?area=&sort=&keywords=&locations=United+Kingdom%3AEngland%3ALondon

I think tube drivers get up to 50k. Unsociable hours, though.

I earn £8.50 an hour doing general admin, not in London. It is possible to buy a property in my area on that salary (think 2 bed terrace) with a decent ish deposit.

Where I live
Bin man £18k
Postie £23
Bus driver. £22k

much PAs / personal secretaries to a company director 28k at my place. PA to Chief Exec and office manager combined. North east. Not me, I should add.

I also get paid £8.50 an hour, doing specialised secretarial work in a government department. I have been doing this job for 16 years with no pay rise. I have a degree and lots of qualifications.

I seem to recall from the bin dispute last year in Birmingham that the refuge collectors here are on something like £35k for a four day week. They were mainly objecting to having to work their hours over five days instead of four, and subsequent job losses.

I had limited sympathy.

Oh, and I was paid £25k for a director’s PA job ten years ago. I had about 4 years experience but had always worked at that level.

@NameChanger22 that seems low for specialised work. My work is really basic stuff.

I'm a PA/Office manager, I work reduced house but my FTE is £28K, NW England

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My dh is a carpenter for a London local authority. His wage fluctuates, but it's about 27k and has decreased a bit over the past 10 years or so.

I'm a teacher (not London, or even fringe) and earn 35k ish, and my wage won't really increase much now (as I have no desire to be an assistant head etc).

London office managers & PA’s would be on 35k plus.

Senior/specialist midwife 38k plus. Head midwife maybe 50k plus.

Used to work in a school & average teacher was on 48k, head of dep 55k, deputy head 70k & head 110k.

Trainee police 30k which increses to 38k, more roles here

www.metfriendly.org.uk/services/police-finance-information/police-pay/

Bog standard plod earns £40k after a few years service. Plenty in some areas to obtain a mortgage but not so great in London ( though weighting will up this figure). I've always thought it a reasonable wage where is doesn't matter what your qualifications were ( though this is changing for some forces).

Deputy head in rural primary school, 20 years experience, about £44k

My friendship circle includes teachers, police, doctors, bankers, accountants & barristers. The one to me that has the best job is the one that went straight into the civil service instead of university. She worked her way up, they paid for her degree, she got into the gold plated final salary pension scheme before they closed it. Crucially having children has had zero impact on her career as she has had so much flexibility & been able to
work different patterns depending on the age of her kids & it’s not affected her promotion abilities at all.

Shoesof1 - your claim social workers earn 32-42 is wrong. It depends on the county and Region but a newly qualified social can expect around 28 and the sw upper band is usually no higher than 34 before you are into middle management/senior roles rather than actual social worker. I've been a social worker for 10+ years so do have some idea!

I'm shocked at how low some salaries seem to be. I'm a big standard supermarket worker at my annual is basic £23K I do get extra due to shift bonuses/double time/overtime and have flexibility to work when I want. I'm can have whichever days I want off but I do work late/early shifts which doesn't suit some (I work around DH early starts)

It’s not a claim, it’s just my experience & as mentioned London salaries. I have no reason to pluck figures out of the air!