If you earn more than £30k how much responsibility / pressure do you have on your shoulders?

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If you have a lot of responsibility/ pressure do you think it is worth the wage? Would you prefer to take a pay cut and have less stress on your shoulders?

Pondering and following a discussion with my sister this evening!

To be fair I will provide my own experience!

I dont live in London and earn £40k, I would consider this to be a good earning outside of L but I am aware there are many higher earners on here!

To answer my own question, I have a considerable amount of responsibility, I'm in a public health role and I have to make decisions that can affect peoples welfare/ lives (with assistance from my team). I report to very senior members in the organisation. I work unsociable hours, including weekends and night shifts. I enjoy my job but its exhausting, I know i am capable of a lot and as cheesey as it sounds I am proud of the work that I do. Some days I consider stepping down but I know in reality I would miss the work I do. I am sure to some my wage isnt that high for the responsibility and hours I work! I guess its not just the wage, but I would say the combination of the satisfaction I obtain from my job makes it worth it!

Pondering really... sorry if this is a ramble, hope this post hasn't come across as a massive stealth boast, it wasn't meant that way I promise!

stompy I am also a nurse at a senior level, am also sometimes held to account for medics actions - I absolutely fiercely push back on this, I have a huge amount of responsibility, 100’s of staff and million pound plus budgets to manage, I refuse to be accountable for a staff group I have no influence over and am hugely vocal on this!

I earn double that amount. I have no line management, 9-5, nothing particularly stressful or difficult. I have just taken a substantial step down from lots of responsibility to basically have a life. I managed big teams, lots of responsibility. Loving having a manager and not having to make the really difficult decisions and deal with all the hard stuff. I have the time and energy to run my side gig business and pull another decent income from that. I have worked blinking hard for over 20 years and get paid more, for my experience. My side gig has taken time and energy to get it profitable and successful. I live in London.

My role is high stress one week and a lull the next, stress weeks I'm working until 11 and starting again at six but I ys the nature of it. I earn well and I want the money to fund our lifestyle.

I earn just under £40k in a very cheap area so I have a good amount of disposable income. I have a bit of responsibility to deliver targets and can feel the pressure occasionally but certainly not unmanageable stress. I work in a 'bullshit job so if I drop the ball nothing really happens, no one depends on me and if I do well I essentially make a billionaire family a few more pounds.
I consider myself lucky to have a job that has great perks, a decent wage and not too much pressure!

I earn 43k as a senior academic at a university.
I run 2 postgraduate courses - I'm the only person who teaches on both so I'm responsible for everything ( with the support of an amazing admin person)
It's a lot of responsibility and long hours but I'm really passionate about my subject and I've developed the courses from nothing to being really successful so I get a lot of satisfaction from what I do.

It's been a tough year though ....

I'm self employed, work from home and earned just over that amount last year - this year, remains to be seen.

It can be stressful as I tend to take on too much at times. It can be either feast or famine, with no guarantees of anything. Generally though, I can be flexible, plan my week and as long as I keep to my promised deadlines, quite simple.

University lecturer, work 50-70 hours a week. Crazy workload, constantly stressed, a ton of responsibility and very limited time and opportunity to actually teach due to excessive amount of programme administration. I’m going to have to leave in order not to just break completely, so sad as it was my dream job, or so I thought......

I work in the NHS on 60k + and have a lot of responsibility for people's health. I do worry sometimes and take a fair bit of work home with me if not paperwork then mental load, however I love my job and feel privileged to do what I do.

I earn £45k outside of London. 1 person reporting to me. No huge stress, occasional long hours at particularly busy times of month/year. Professionally qualified but in lower role than I am experienced/qualified for as it means I can be flexible with the kids.

46k. In London. No responsibility. Supposed to do 37 hour week. Can do it in 2 days a week. Lots of flexibility. WAH a lot of the time before Covid, been full time WAH since mid March. Can do it permanently if I want. It's a boring job, office type. But I have it cushy, and I get a lot of spare time (I.e the three days free when I have done the work.)

Not me but DS's dad earns over £50k driving trains. Piss easy work but very dull according to him.

@Bella444 I have a "normal" basic admin job. Very easy, as soon as I leave work I forget about it. I have a great work/life balance, no stress at all. But I only earn 3p over minimum hourly wage so it all depends on what is important to you.

Social worker - 34k

Posted too soon!
Too much responsibility!!

40K
Love my job, can be challenging but hours aren’t excessive

The most I've ever earned is £30k as a teacher and it's the hardest job I've ever done.

DH works in IT, earns between 65-70k (dependent on bonuses), no responsibility and not even busy most of the time.

I wish I'd followed his career path rather than mine!

Earn just under 40k - I work in professional services for a university. Hugely stressful job and I manage lots of staff.

Has felt really tough during the Covid situation as the hours are ridiculous and there's been no pay increase at all this year. My team has taken on huge amounts of extra work due to a recruitment freeze (happening across most universities) and I've not been able to take any annual leave at all this year. I'm just hoping I'm not completely burnt out by the time term starts!

Grateful to have a job in the current situation but wish we could take on some much needed additional staff to take the pressure off us all a bit.

I earned around 45k a year... Then I had my youngest 3 after my mom passed and realized I wanted more time with them... Not more money. So I went part-time and now bring in around 27k a year. I am much happier... Even if we do have tight moments every so often🤷

Life is too fucking short to work it away just for 💰💰 that won't go with you when you die.

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40k, outside of London... But a stupid level of stress and responsibilities. Literally life and death decision making.

I’m an icu dr. There are areas of medicine in which I could earn more with less stress. But I enjoy my work and think meaningful work is very important.

Interested to read of the ‘stress’ of NHS managers. I suppose I see it as fundamentally different to the stress of my job, and it is certainly the case that mistakes by management staff are much more likely for be forgiven than mistakes by clinical staff. I have not encountered many management staff I consider competent.

I was particularly interested to read that one pushes back on being held responsible - certainly I have never once seen a health manager take responsibility even for their own absolute incompetence. Typically they are promoted.

It really is a parallel universe to the reality of clinical practice for nurses and drs.

I don't think there's always much logic/consistency to it. I earn similar to you, but work 35 hours a week Mon-Fri in a relatively low stress role. I have to make decisions and provide advice which could have serious ramifications if I got them wrong, but it's based on an area of expertise I trained for, so it doesn't feel like any significant burden. My role doesn't involve line management of anyone else.

DH earns almost 3x what I do and works similar hours, with even less stress than me 😏 Also no line management responsibilities, though that could change shortly to him having responsibility for a small team. There tends to be a shortage of qualified people in his industry, which has contributed to the inflated salaries 🤷🏼‍♀️

Trixie I'm not sure if your comments were aimed at me, in case I wasn't clear, I am a clinical nurse not a manager.

I actually think that management is very stressful, and full of impossible demands. It's a different stress to clinical stress, but i wonder if managers feel the same level of worry about their staff team as I do, sort of split between worry about the patients and worry about the staff caring for them. And split between not wanting to micro manage people and not wanting to let some newly qualified staff nurse make an error that will end their career or cause harm to a patient.

Re managers being competent, I've known good ones and bad ones, like every walk of life I suppose.

I used to earn just over £50k in a non-management role, it's a job similar to accounting. It wasn't stressful and certainly not even close to life or death. I used to do my set hours and rarely a minute more.
Now an middle management on more money but it is stressful!

Just under 40K (not including unsocial enhancements) responsible for a very busy A&E dept which can have upto 100 patients in at one time. Jointly responsible for 100+ staff with 5 other band 7 colleagues. Extremely stressful, resources always stretched and lots of staff shortages. I imagine equivalent responsibility in other sectors would pay much more, but I love it so wont complain 😀