If you're on the 'mumsnet six figures' salary what do you do and what geographical region is the role in?

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I'd love to earn six figures and keen to look into how I could make this happen if possible.

@BraveGoldie

I am a mum on 145-160k in London. Work around 35 hrs a week, with flexibility. I am a specialist in a specific knowledge area that is reasonably important to big business. I am basically paid for my advice.

Bit vague. Data?

Financial Services London. Obtained via a degree, professional accountancy qualification, MBA and many years of hard work. Which in practice means doing your day job well, and taking on extra work at the side to support meeting business objectives.

Tech consultant, London. Work 4 days per week from home now as DC is 1 and currently pregnant with DC2.

Finance - FT equivalent is six figures but by choice I'm only part-time WFH.

@OllyBJolly

Business adviser, Scotland

Business Advisors in Scotland are most absolutely not on six figures!

@StrongerOrWeaker Also for context I got tenure in 2017, DH more recently in 2020. We have two young children- 10 and nearly 5. They go to/will go to public school but for high school, maybe even middle school, we’ll probably go private. Neither of us have any familial wealth. We both get subsidised childcare but used it for one of our kids. For the other one we didn’t use University childcare (which kept shutting down during COVID as well and needed us to drive them there when we were WFH except when DH was in clinic) but used a more local private one that is very very good but also more expensive. We were paying nearly 2800 USD per month for the younger one at some point for daycare.

@HerculesMullligan

I agree that’s it’s a bit pointless (and cringy) to put your husband’s income on these threads.

This is mumsnet and most of the women posting here will have combined their career with having children in a way different to the average man’s career trajectory. What I find interesting on threads like this is the mothers who have managed to reach these high salaries.

I agree. And actually it's not even about sex/ gender roles. Just dont think it's that helpful to reference someone else's salary. Only the person earning the salary can talk the op through their career choice/ journey/ pros and cons etc. If you don't earn it you aren't being asked no matter how much you support the earner.

Construction - North east England. Most of career spent in London first.

Just under but in a couple of years I should hit it, in business strategy & transformation

@Kshhuxnxk how can you possibly know that? Surely the PP knows how much she is earning

The in-house lawyers - what practice area please?

If you don't earn it you aren't being asked no matter how much you support the earner.

Precisely, or we may as well just start listing all the jobs we know that earn over £100,000, anyone can do that. It's a personal question directed to YOU.

Science - Research
I’m not saying where but probably obvious to those that know.

Patent Attorney - East Anglia.

Business industry people - what is it you do on a day to day basis? It's not an area I know much about.

Communications for FTSE500 company, London. Live in Cotswolds so cost of living is lower and very rarely need to go to the office. 4 DCs. I'm lucky - my basic salary is just under 6 figures but I have guaranteed annual bonuses that take me well into the 6 figure range.

Business Advisors in Scotland are most absolutely not on six figures!

To be fair, I think a lot of these posts are - presumably for privacy reasons - quite vague, and therefore it’s difficult to take much from them. Which is why this isn’t a particularly useful thread for the OP who I assume is looking for information on career paths and so on.

Most of the roles listed here aren’t, in themselves, six figure earning. They’re entirely dependent on the organisation you work for, your experience and professional standing in your industry, your noted successes and so on.

I mean, there are definitely some (quite obvious, IMO) Billy Bullshitters posting, but I don’t think you can tell that just from the job titles given themselves.

Consultant export sales director for a US company

Wfh in East Midlands, approx 30 hrs a week for £115k pa average

Please don't put your husband's salaries on here, so cringe - unless you're comparing your salaries or something.

I earn a 6 fig salary WFH in IT/technology. Geographical location is irrelevant as whole UK team WFH, all on similar salaries, and live all over the place - literally whole of the UK. I know some very high earning people in technology who happen to live in Scotland.

OP you need to give us some idea of what you want to do and what your current skill set is.
I work in the City and have done so for all my career. I earn what I do because I am well qualified with shedloads of experience. People pay me well because they can chuck a complex situation at me and I can sort it out. I suspect the same is true for many of the people on this thread. We are paid for our insight, our ability to cope under pressure, our experience and the courage and clarity to make complex decisions.
What are you an expert in (or would like to be an expert in)?
How resilient are you?
How do you cope under pressure?
Can you see both sides of an argument and weigh up the right course of action quickly?
Can you persuade others if needed?
Can you make difficult decisions and handle the consequences?

Most of the above will apply to the academic, medical, business and legal roles people have posted about.

Thanks @Exhausteddog.

Seems a bit pointless to me, sorry OP, but this is an anonymous forum where anyone can say anything.

I earn 6 figures teaching (rich) people to surf in Cornwall. Or do I? You'll never know

Senior marketing manager in a niche corner of the financial services sector in London. B2B marketers can earn very decent money, it's not as glam as consumer, but the money can be great. I have a degree (not in marketing), but progression has been through experience and professional qualifications. Married with one DD, took 9 months mat leave and straight back full time.

@Jooox I do finance - structured lending and de-risking via various routes so it’s very varied.

But if I had my time again I’d do corporate/PE and then go in-house as a GC somewhere small. much more control/input into the business. I’d love to get into that world but my lack of funds experience is an annoying gap in my CV at this moment.

@anotherchocolate

Business industry people - what is it you do on a day to day basis? It's not an area I know much about.

What do you mean by business industry? You’ll need to be more specific.

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude

OP you need to give us some idea of what you want to do and what your current skill set is. I work in the City and have done so for all my career. I earn what I do because I am well qualified with shedloads of experience. People pay me well because they can chuck a complex situation at me and I can sort it out. I suspect the same is true for many of the people on this thread. We are paid for our insight, our ability to cope under pressure, our experience and the courage and clarity to make complex decisions. What are you an expert in (or would like to be an expert in)? How resilient are you? How do you cope under pressure? Can you see both sides of an argument and weigh up the right course of action quickly? Can you persuade others if needed? Can you make difficult decisions and handle the consequences?

Most of the above will apply to the academic, medical, business and legal roles people have posted about.

This describes very well what I do.