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If you're 33 (or thereabouts), how much do you make?

187 replies

emilyintheSE · 02/02/2022 14:08

Just came back to the workforce from a long career break to have DC.

I'm almost 34 and on £50k. It's London, so it feels like it doesn't go very far here.

I just feel a bit stuck and well behind where I should be, but I guess that's what happens when you take time out to be a sahm?

Curious to know where others my age are at.

OP posts:
GreenCareBear · 04/02/2022 19:16

31 and £57k plus an additional £4k ish in overtime if I want it. I’m on my second MAT leave but I don’t think my earnings would have massively changed in that time as I’d recently been promoted before my first leave. My job can be quite boring though and nobody ever wants to hear about what I do!

BiscuitLover3678 · 04/02/2022 19:20

These threads never make anyone feel good! Currently doing flexi freelance work which is very little, but before my dc was born it was around 30k (London centric job).

Aimee1987 · 04/02/2022 19:25

@TheTempest

I’m on £34k at 34 and was thinking I was doing pretty well until I read this 😂 I have one DC and had a year off with her.
This is me but I'm on 32k. 🤣🤷‍♀️
Kogong · 04/02/2022 19:26

Age 34, £11 per hour. After deductions, my annual wage works out about £15,800.

I love my job and it's exactly what I went to uni for, however the pay is low for the amount of responsibilities and all that the job entails. I have been in my current role for six years and get a yearly pay rise, good holidays and lots of little perks. Unfortunately there are few opportunities for progression.

I suppose there are lots of factors in determining if you have a good wage. OP is in London and feels that £50k doesn't go far. To me, £50k is a fantastic salary and I don't know anyone my age who is earning that amount of money. But on the flip side of that, I live in central Scotland and between myself and DH (who earns £23k), we do alright financially and own a 4 bed house in an okay area. I can't imagine those salaries would get us far if we lived in London like the OP.

Ridiculeisnothingtobescaredof · 04/02/2022 19:33

Can I ask what sort of jobs people are describing as very stressful?

ColonelHaiti · 04/02/2022 19:35

35 here. Work part time I'm on 32k. Would be 40k if full time. In the North.

saleorbouy · 04/02/2022 19:36

I suppose it's not necessarily how much you earn but also where you live and what you do with it.
You could earn less and live in an area with lower property prices and childcare costs and live a comparatively better life on a lower income than say some areas in and around London.
A Victorian terrace in Carlisle is significantly cheaper than the same in London and therefore less salary is required to pay the mortgage and enjoy a larger disposable income. It's all relative.

BlowDryRat · 04/02/2022 19:42

Screenshot of my payslip last month for the posters who are looking for fibbers. It was bonus month so particularly high.

I definitely don't work any harder that my DCs' teachers, the men who collected my bins this morning, or the midwife who delivered my DN last month. I just have a higher paying job.

If you're 33 (or thereabouts), how much do you make?
Ridiculeisnothingtobescaredof · 04/02/2022 19:47

I do get from some people a sense of 'my job is very well paid but it's soo stressful and I'm very very important, much more than people on lower salaries'

bindud · 04/02/2022 19:52

@BlowDryRat wowsers, what do you do?

BlowDryRat · 04/02/2022 20:11

I work in a specialised role at a medical technology company. Director level (middle management) with 15 years experience. I worked from the bottom up, did my degree with the OU while working and supplemented my income with driving for Amazon when I needed to. Before that, I did all sorts of jobs from office admin to cleaning to retail. I have worked hard but my current job isn't any harder than those ones. I'm very fortunate that my skills and experience are in high demand in a shortage field and highly paid. That's just luck though, not attributable to anything I've done.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 04/02/2022 20:16

@BlowDryRat

Screenshot of my payslip last month for the posters who are looking for fibbers. It was bonus month so particularly high.

I definitely don't work any harder that my DCs' teachers, the men who collected my bins this morning, or the midwife who delivered my DN last month. I just have a higher paying job.

Wow, that's inspirational. I love seeing women do well.
bindud · 04/02/2022 20:18

Well done @BlowDryRat, very inspirational particularly considering you worked your way up.

scintilla87 · 04/02/2022 20:23

Well done @BlowDryRat, amazing achievement!

BlowDryRat · 04/02/2022 20:25

Thankyou Blush

Duckswaddle · 04/02/2022 20:45

34, on £65k. Midlands based.

jessnoah · 04/02/2022 22:16

£33,000 and 30 YO. Was on £30,000 at 24/25, £34,000 at 26... and then I had kids Confused In that time my husband has gone from £27k to £54k... But my job is WFH and flexible

jessnoah · 04/02/2022 22:19

Also you said your friends make £80k plus... that's your circle which is why you feel poor. Apparently the richest people in the country all do this and it really depends on who you spend time with

MmeSosostris · 04/02/2022 22:22

@BlowDryRat

You have lost so much of your bonus on tax. Seems bizarre.

But we’ll done on achieving that. Lend us a fiver 🙂

MmeSosostris · 04/02/2022 22:23

@BlowDryRat

What was yr degree with the OU in btw?

SC215 · 04/02/2022 22:31

I'm a nurse at the top of band 5 and would be on £31500 if I was full time. I work 30 hours per week, so my part time salary is £25200, take home about £1600 a month, more or less depending on anti social hours. I do overtime or agency work most weeks atm, tend to make £50 - £300 per week. I won't do as much in the summer though.

Lanique · 04/02/2022 22:36

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glassesblob · 04/02/2022 22:38

Almost 32 and I work full time for 20k Envy

SuperSocks · 04/02/2022 22:42

I'm just about to turn 33. I earn £18k a year as a nanny, in the South West. It scares me how little I earn but at the same time I don't have to pay rent and I do love my job - I would so much rather enjoy my life and not have a penny than be all stressed and filthy rich like my previous employers have been.

BlowDryRat · 04/02/2022 22:47

[quote MmeSosostris]@BlowDryRat

You have lost so much of your bonus on tax. Seems bizarre.

But we’ll done on achieving that. Lend us a fiver 🙂[/quote]
I know! Like I said earlier in the thread though, last month's paycheck was more than my annual salary for several years. I remind myself that I'm very lucky, was able to get support from the benefits system when I needed it and now I'm paying my bit. Doesn't stop me daydreaming about what I'd spend it all on if it was tax free though Grin

Sorry, no fivers on offer but I have donated to any Just Giving things that my friends have posted on FB this month. I'm a sucker for someone running a marathon.

@MmeSosostris it was a BA in International Studies. Only tangentially relevant to my job but I picked something I loved because six years of study is going to be a slog no matter what. I'd have more options (and more money) if I'd picked a science or engineering subject.