If you work 50+ hours per week, how much do you earn?

[Glastonbury2020]

I'm a teacher and my contract is 27.5 hpw (joke), which is 5.5 hrs per day- 9.00-3.30 (don't get paid for lunch hour, although I spend it marking).
I get to school at 8.00 and leave around 5.30 (+15 hpw extra). I then work at least an hour each evening-more during assessment period (+5h min) and at least 6 hrs over the weekend working (+6hrs). This totals at least 53.5hrs pw.
I get paid £38k.
Should I look for another job?

Im a nurse (band 7) im contracted 37.5 and if I did 50 hours per week (48 hours OT a month) i would earn way over 50K a year.

Nurse. 30 hours paid, about 15-20 hours unpaid per week. No paid break. Similar salary. Massive amounts of responsibility.

It's a piss take.

@23451A

Nurse. 30 hours paid, about 15-20 hours unpaid per week. No paid break. Similar salary. Massive amounts of responsibility.

It's a piss take.

23451A isn't it logged as overtime ? My BF is a nurse and they do overtime so get paid for any extra.

I get paid an hourly rate and when we have been very short staffed I have done 5×12 hour shifts. Its discouraged but it happens.

Because my hourly rate it low I always get stiffed by the tax though.

No paid over time unfortunately, occasional TOIL but mostly just the goodwill of (mainly) women.

I'm in the community and services are massively underfunded, caseloads are huge, the wards were better but hours are unsocial.

I'll never understand why teachers and nurses aren't paid what they deserve!

35 hours a week, train driver 54k.

Oh wow 54k for a train driver. That really put it in perspective.

168 hours a week for £144, I am a foster carer. My current fosterling has a higher level of needs than usual, if he had regular needs I would be paid £50 a week.

Look for another job if you want to...?

I regularly work 50+ and get paid a whole lot more

how many hours average a month/year though? (sorry - not being mean, just that teacher hours are spread differently due to school holidays)

I think this is a bit how long is a piece of string. I technically work .80 FTE (7.5 hours a day x 4 days, except in lockdown I don’t work that much and no one cares). I’m a PhD level uni lecturer. I think my salary is technically about 36k though full time it would be 46k. I think for your contracted hours and your education level assuming it’s BSc, that’s quite good for part time. I earn well for what I do and I spent an extra 8 years in education with a master’s (2 years and PhD 6 years).

But it’s all relative. Dh is self employed, has a BSc, makes close to £100k a year working about 50 hours a week. It’s very much about the path you choose. We both enjoy what we do and are happy to earn well above average.

I should add to the above though that working at a uni, I don’t get school holidays off, that’s 52 weeks a year of work. Term time only would be about £25k a year.

The thing is by working extra for free you are perpetuating the idea that your job is doable in the hours you are contracted.

£40k 37.5 hours contracted but easily so 45+. I’m in PR

Anyone who works as a teacher or nurse knows the earning potential is limited before they accept the job. It’s a bit like people who buy houses with no parking and then moan about no residents parking.
I do think you should be paid more.

I work long hours but earn significantly more

When I met DH he did 50-60 hours every week and was earning £30k. At the time, he insisted it would pay off long term, and it has. He now works around 50 (more when very busy, but not as often as in the past), and earns a six figure salary. He’s in senior management/ HR.

Primary teacher in Ireland . Work about 27 hours a week. 71k ( euro ) .

@bloodywhitecat

168 hours a week for £144, I am a foster carer. My current fosterling has a higher level of needs than usual, if he had regular needs I would be paid £50 a week.

That’s not pay though, is it. That’s an allowance. It’s not comparable

No, it is what I am paid for my skills. It is separate to the allowance I am paid for my fosterling.

@bloodywhitecat

No, it is what I am paid for my skills. It is separate to the allowance I am paid for my fosterling.

? Why? What’s your allowance then?

How much are you working during the school holidays?
Often I work 50hrs a week, sometimes way more but then I also have some weeks where I work 8 hours so if I average it out over the year it's not too bad.
I earn 45k but that's with London allowance

The thing is by working extra for free you are perpetuating the idea that your job is doable in the hours you are contracted.

I completely agree with that.

The difficulty is in nursing/teaching if you don't do it vulnerable people suffer. I can also be struck off or end up in court if goes wrong.

There is a terrible bullying culture in some public sectors of making front line staff out to be the issue. If you complain it's results in being told you need better time management skills or given resilience training, when what we actually need in more staff or less paperwork. I'm sure teaching is the same.

Also a teacher, I do similar to you but am much further down the pay scale - £29k

And to the person who asked do we work during holidays..yes, yes we do. Granted, that isn’t daily work, but in order to be prepared for next term / have your classroom ready, this requires working additional hours.

Biggest mistake of my life, going into teaching. It had literally wiped out years of my existence. The hours kill

I’m not belittling what NHS do AT ALL, but it has been a big eye opener during this pandemic, hearing the complaints about 12 hour shifts, and the universal agreement that this is too long, while Ive been doing 16+ hours a day for years