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

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

At 25 - P/T payroll admin on £12k

After a degree and a few company moves am now payroll manager on £36k at age 35.

I feel pretty proud of myself for working hard and making my way up the ladder :)

Career in social work.

First job (18) assistant homeless hotel 8k ( mid nineties)

Age 25 - senior support worker 20k

Age 30 - social worker 30k

Mid forties - self employed around 30 k. Fits around kids.

Almost forgot my first job at 17 - was a YTS scheme. 40 hours a week for £55 a week!

I was a nurse in my 20s. Can't remember the exact salary but it certainly wasn't much. I worked for an Area Health Authority (when such things existed) and it happened to begin with H.

Every month my salary would appear on my bank statement next to the words HAHA.

I can’t quite remember, I was a PA for most of my 20s. On about 20k in 2005 I think which felt like quite a lot.

I retrained as a lawyer and qualified when I was 30, ten years later I’m on 125k.

£35k age 24 - Software engineer
£0 now age 29 - SAHM

21: call centre at 13.5k
22: recruitment consultant at 30k tax free (abroad)
Career break to travel and study between 25-28.

HR type role - started out at 26.5 and now on 35 after 2 years.

Aged 25, worked in a factory. 1980's so probably £9k a year. 10 times that now at the end of my career and obtaining professional quals along the. I've done better than I was expected to!

At 25, £30k. At 35, £95k plus decent bonuses. At 45, £40k (moved out of London, took a massive pay cut for a better work/life balance and then went sort of part time).

@Absoluteunit only £64 a week? That is outrageous

I was on minimum wage, 15 years (and a degree plus several jobs) later £41k.

22- 25k
25- 60k (recruiter)
37- 50k- charity management

Early 20s - (1970s) £5.6kpa.
Mid 30s £30k pa
...children...
mid 50s £8.21 ph part time.

After graduation at 22 was earning 18k for a bank customer service
Now 29 and earn 40k
Senior manager in an insurance contact center

Nc for this

I did a BA then a Masters in a humanities subject.

First salary full time job at 22 was in a sales role in an office on 21k.

Moved up every year in the company, eventually at 25 I moved to another company on £50k, at 26 I moved again to be on £60k then at 27 I went freelance and made £130k in my first year.

It's pretty crazy when I look back. I've had a baby so earning potential has dipped but I'm amazingly lucky to do 2 days a week and earn £60k.

For me it's all been about picking the industry and being good at spotting opportunities a well as asking for more money and responsibilities at every chance

10K in 1996 as a care worker.

First proper job at 21 after uni was an admin assistant earning £11k a year. Now mid thirties and earning £150k+

£9500 at 21 (as a graduate) magazine advertising
Now £49000 professional HE administrator.

I was in my early 20s in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I was a PA and in 1991 I had my dream job on £20k per annum. A very good salary for my age at that time.

Now in my early 50s I’m a school administrator, I work part time hours, term time only and don’t even earn enough to pay tax!

Early 20s £10440 customer service. Now, late 30s I work for a charity, fte around 18500 but am part time. Never been brave enough to apply for jobs over 20k despite a professional, post grad qualification.

In my early 20's I was a freelancer. I earned approx 12k a year.

I'm now 47 (still a freelancer)and I've earn on average about 37k a year, some years up to 50k.

Work for the police. Was on about 21k early twenties. Went up to about 41k but have just gone part time so am now earning just under 30k for 26 hours a week.

I started teaching at 22 and I think my salary was around £21k.
At 24 I became a HOD which alongside a couple of pay increments put me on around £29k.
I‘m 33 and an assistant head now. My salary is just under £60k.
These threads are always eye opening and really highlight some of the unfairness and inequality in our society. I know I’ve been lucky to be in the right place at the right time for promotion more than once and that I don’t work any harder than plenty of people who earn less. I’m also pretty confident that I work harder than plenty of people who earn more.

Just a reminder that people on here are mostly posting because they've done well. I posted on my now 30k a year job as I think I've done well but not in Mumsnet world....

Just feel it needs saying that the vast majority on here posting £40kplus salaries are not the normal / average for anyone feeling bad by this thread.

24 - Got my first job at £24.5k which was a marketing traineee
39 - Account Director at a comm’s agency, I’m on £120k

21 - £21k - policy officer for charity
24- £24k - development officer charity
30 - £33k same job, with pay rises and increments.

Means I can't move without a big pay cut or more responsibility though. Neither of which I want.

(I'm part time though so only earn 3/5 of those numbers).