What jobs are really well paid

[Lardlizard]

Apart from finance law and medicine

It’s all relative isn’t it.

OP what do you mean by finance?

Professional footballer.

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Most of the surveyors I trained with are on six figure salaries and bonuses. I was on close to six figures after 10 years as a general practice surveyor (would have been well into six figures if I hadn't kept having children ).

Medicine is not as well paid as people think, until you get to the upper echelons. My brother has just qualified as a consultant surgeon after YEARS of training/exams/awful shifts etc, and his basic is still less than I was on after 5 years of being a surveyor.....

I dont thinkbits just about the job.

It's about the company and speciality.

I have more than doubled my wage recently. I did a operations manager for one company paid 27k. I took a step down and moved companies and that step down was paid at 26k. It's its slightly different business area. I have now accepted an offer for a job at operations manager level again in this new company. That pay grade starts at 40k plus. We are negotiating my new wage now I am looking somewhere around the higher 40s.

So not amazing high earner wages. But just by working for someone different, in a slightly different business area, my earnings are far higher.

Anything in the film industry...if you want to be a make-up artist, hairdresser, assistant, engineer, scaffolder etc, do it in the film industry and your pay will be so much higher than in the real world. My husband works in films (not doing any of those jobs), but isn't an actor, and he earns a really good wage for what he does. Yes, his job is niche but not all jobs in that sector are...and it isn't as tough an industry to crack as you might think (as long as you aren't choosing acting)..

My stepdad did a degree in chemistry. He got a first. Then he got on a graduate training scheme with a big chemicals company and specialised in shipping paint as a salesman. He retired at 58 on a six figure salary. Then got bored so now works as an insurance assessor in the same industry travelling all over the world and now charges £700 a day plus expenses for his time.

I wish I had been good at science.

Mining - engineering and management can easily get six figure salaries.

Fishing

Younique presenter

Coding/data analysis/computer boffin type stuff can rake it in. But I suppose a lot depends on how you define "really well paid".

Air traffic controller. Good starting salary, good shift pattern allowances.

Medicine? Well paid?

Depends on what you're looking for in terms of pay.

DP is a train driver and earns 54k, working in the north east, 35 hours a week.

Airline pilot

Chartered accountant
being prepared to work overseas also increases salary and can decrease outgoings - eg housing allowance, travel allowance, utilities paid, private healthcare etc.

Aerospace engineers
Software engineers

My DH drives trains as well, his year to date so far is 80k but he works most of his days off. His basic is 55k.

Jobs in the tech industry

Yep. As a contractor, it's not unusual to command £500 a day and more.

Our neighbour has his own plumbing business - and a Ferrari in the garage.

Construction! (self employed)

The best paid people I know are in:

Corporate law (sky high income; work like dogs)

Big business management/management consultancy (fart around spouting vacuous platitudes from Anthony Robbins-style self-help sales tosh; eat loads of free sandwiches, drift from one ineffectual meeting to another; talk a lot about Tough Mudder and other butch challenges they do at weekends)

Wow. I want to be a train driver!

My DH is a Project Remediation Specialist Scrum Master. I call him a transponster

Basically he's hired by IT companies to unfuck projects that are nose diving. He bills around 14k a month. Currently in assignment in Switzerland so is getting double that a month. However it may be 3 or 4 months between projects.

Tutoring is well paid if you are good at it and get results. In London you can earn £70ph or more as a 'supertutor' in Maths and English.

IT consultant
Chemical engineer
Air traffic controller
NHS senior management
Vice chancellor of a uni
Senior executive at a pharmaceutical company (marketing)