What was your salary when you were in your early 20's... what is it now?

[HotGirlSummer]

What was your salary when you were under 25 (what job were you doing?) and what do you do now?

Oh I’m 40 now

Early 20s - £30k full time
Late 20s- £45k full time
Early 30s- £45k part time

£18,000 - early twenties

£48,000 - now

About 10k now 64k, I'm 50 though.

23k first grad job, FMCG
43k now 7 years on, same industry just relocated a lot

1998. Age23 £7k Bank

1999. Age44 £22k Office Manager

Full time
No kids

About £15k in my early 20s - pretty good basic and a few extra allowances for a specialist lab role.

£17k now for almost the same role.

A fair bit has happened in between, but I'm effectively doing the same job as I did when I first started working over 30 years ago.

First job from Uni was in asset management (property) - age 21 - 19k + 1-2k ish bonus

Change career to tax - age 23 - 20k

Now - age 26 - 46k

I have completed two qualifications in the last three years which explains the big jump in salary.

Early 20s: Part time deputy manager at a day nursery (0.5FTE) £7000
Now: self employed storyteller £3000

I was 22 in 1979 and earning £7900 in a graduate role for a clothing company - I retired last year and my final salary was £59,000 - i worked in a senior educational role

Started on the phones in IT support at 24 earning 11.5k. Now mid 40s with same company but creating IT solutions and earning 63k plus bonuses. Not been a bad career path when I put it like that! But the 11.5k really didn't reflect my 5 year degree!

Age 23 starting salary as a teacher was 22k
In my last year of teaching my salary was 42k at age 33.
I am 40 now and work 20 hours per week (not in teaching) and I earn 18k.

Age 17 - call centre £15,000
Age 21 - financial advice £32000 + bonus so around £45k
Age 28 - £11000 cleaner
Had a mental breakdown and sick with stress so total rethink in what I need from life

24 in London, on £25k as a project assistant.
Now 28 in London, on £50k as a policy advisor

Early 20's call centre customer service: £13,500 on the south coast.
Late 20's £17,500 plus commission (Around £26,000) Account Handler - again south coast.
Now late 30'3 £30,000 underwriter up North.

Biggest change has been how much further my money goes not being down south, my rent (now mortgage) nearly halved.

I was a PhD student in my early 20s on £10k per year (including London weighting).

I’m now in my mid 40s and earning around £150k per year as a patent attorney.

Age 18 £9k full time.
Age 23 £21k full time.
Kids
Own business with DH. Worked 6 and 7 day weeks. Pay was ok, but it was incredibly stressful and busy.
Sold business.
Age mid 30s £11K school hours, term time only. Bloody marvellous!

22 - less than 20k

now - mid 60ks

3 promotions in last ten years is most of the difference, wage mostly static/only cost of living rises in entry level grad jobs until late 20s

Mid 20s - receptionist on 25k
Now, early 30s - executive assistant on 50k

Early twenties: minimum wage
Now: zero, I'm a housewife (and loving it! It's only temporary, will go back to work in a year or two so making the most of it).

Early 20s - data analyst (mid 90s) £4k pa
Early 40s - company director £100k +

Early 20’s started on £18k. Then finished that career on £36k. Stopped due to dc.
Went on to the job I have now in school admin on £19 (back where I started pretty much) but get school holidays off. Though I don’t like earning less than what I was previously on. Pro rata it’s £24k.

At 18, a hospital care assistant on £10K. Now 41, hospital consultant on £87k basic

Graduate finance job aged 22 - £22k
Next finance job aged 25 - £31k
Next project/finance job 27 - £45k

Salary now is confidential but in 1987 as an early computer programmer it was £6,883 ... the chip on my shoulder wanted loads more but in reality it wasn't. It was a great time to be in computing... almost at the forefront of something exciting. It's boring as hell now at 55...