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?

18: £11k Bar work
25: £16k Pub management
34: £28k System developer

PhD student: £12k pa tax free
Trainee accountant (at 26): £18k taxed
Now (39): c£80k

Ha!

1972: age 20, CO in Civil Service - £800 pa

It went up to £1200 as I turned 21 because there had been one of those mad enormous backdated payrises that year (something like 30%) on top of the age rise.

Can’t remember subsequent salaries in any detail except that in 1979 I was on about £4000 as an admin assistant in a big pharmaceutical company in London. DH got £7000 as a systems analyst.

We rented a 2-bed flat in Ealing for £100pm. We could have easily bought a house for about £20000 but went to live in the US for a while instead.

I quite regret that now

21 - £14,500
Early 40's - £41,000

Age 25: £13000 (PhD student)
Age 36: £54000 (Associate Professor)

Started full time work at 22 on 19k on a graduate scheme. Still with same company and earn approx. 70k plus bonus pro rata. I’m 35 now.