If you earn 30k, what do you do?

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I earn that (pro rata), and most people outside of London I know with ‘decent’ jobs earn around £30-40k. Nothing more really.

I’m intrigued to know what other people do for that amount. As I thought it was a decent salary. But it seems it really isn’t in some people’s opinions.

I’m a PA. I could earn about another 10-15k more in the City but I haven’t the time nor patience.

Occupational therapist in Scotland-I earn 36k a year however have been qualified for 20 years.

Newly qualified solicitor in Scotland, earn £36k I have been on that salary since I qualified just over a year ago

My husband is in that bracket. Works for a housing association as a customer service centre team leader. I was on that pro ratad till covid and worked in healthcare as a weight management/physical activity/healthy lifestyle advisor

I’m an assistant product manager for a well known healthcare retailer and earn £32k.

I’m relatively new but expect I’ll stay in the 30-35k range unless/until I get a promotion.

I earned that as a trainee actuary in NI. I'd say junior or training roles in lots of professions would be around that mark (accounting, law, medicine etc).

30k per annum, dental nurse

Bus driver and I normally take home 40 plus

I work in information governance for the local council. Basically deal with complaints prior to ombudsman stage, internal audit and all things DPA related.

Newly qualified Architect qualifying tipped me just over the 30k.

Tbh for the 8 years it’s taken for me to qualify, the responsibility I have over million pound projects, the overtime that’s expected and the small team that I run I thing we’re a pretty underpaid profession.

I’m comfortable financially but that’s because of the choices I make. I work with others at the same level who still live with their parents and can’t afford to move out.

I work in a city in the Midlands

I guess it depends a lot based on where you live. My job (managing clients in a marketing role) would probably earn me around £35k in London. But I'm nowhere near and my salary is below the national average. Yet my friends consider me to be loaded. I'd consider £30/40k to be a very very good salary.

I work in Business Development for a company that provides a service to Pharma companies. I am PT though so would earn more if I wasn’t

I'm so pleased to hear I don't have a 'decent' job. Cheers!

I'm in Scotland. I work in the Whisky Industry.

£50k marketing WFH too

@RosieTheHat. Sounds bloody lovely!!

I work in policy for the government (brand new to the role), I start Monday.

It is a decent salary. It's above average for the whole country and if you live somewhere with lower housing costs, it enables a good lifestyle.

I'm on £40k for a specialist and very niche H&S consultancy role. I could earn more doing the same job in different sectors, but I'd lose security and other benefits.

DP is currently earning equivalent of up to £35k pa driving a machine on a building site, but that's self employed so comes with no benefits like holidays or sick leave, pension etc. If he doesn't work he doesn't get paid and the job could end at any time, although he's currently on a contract that could last another year or two, but that's very unusual for him, most are a few months at most.

I'm always intrigued by PA salaries, which seem unusually high for 'office work' without specific qualifications like law, accountancy etc. Is it that you have to be at the beck and call of your boss, possibly do some of their 'technical' work and be available at all hours?

I'm on £35k and in Regulatory in the Pharmaceutical industry. I live in Scotland so it is a decent wage here.

DH is a courier and gets £31k per annum salaried.

32k in HR not management but not junior. Just got promoted though so will be on 42k. I dont want to be a manager so I feel like I'm getting near the top of my earning potential

I was an EA in Mayfair and I earned £38k (left three years ago to be a SAHM)

@CatsOutOfTheBag It is. We get a decent product allowance

I earned that a few years ago in HR. It was the amount that made me feel that I had enough to have a safety buffer and that I was no longer entry level.

Both me and my partner are civil servants. I'm HR and partner is IT. I'm around 32k and he earns about 37 with shift allowance.

I work in a university policy team. £34k. Russell Group, not in London.

It’s pretty undemanding and it suits me at present with childcare, etc, so I feel lucky. But I was earning the same amount 15 years ago!