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How much were you earning at 25?

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LeedleLee · 02/02/2022 17:19

Hi all. Just that really! I'm 25, graduated uni last year and have been working since. I have had jobs prior to this but they were all MW retail/waitressing type jobs. My current job is my first one in my desired/degree field.

I currently earn 21k. DP is 27 and earns 22k. We live in East Anglia. This is more than enough to support us and DD and we live comfortably, but a recent thread has left me feeling a little deflated, as people not much older than DP and I seem to be earning considerably more.

We both love our jobs and I know we have many years to develop our careers and salaries, but still, it is a little disheartening!

How much were you earning at 25, and how much are you earning now?

Thank you 😊

OP posts:
MmeSosostris · 02/02/2022 21:07

Graduated from first degree in 1993 £8000
PGCE for a year then first teaching post £15400 in London suburbs 1995
Second post in teaching in 1997 - 19000

Then supply, then office temping I think about 18,000?

More supply

Various low paid arts stuff whilst I tried to manage a developing disability that affected my mobility

Returned to teaching 2017 £29,000

Supply

Started studying tech to try and find different career
Current tech related post £20000 2021

So, mine are clearly affected by my mobility problems that threw me for 6 plus some caring responsibilities and time in another country.

MmeSosostris · 02/02/2022 21:10

Sorry, at 25 - earning about 18,000 I think

JammyRascal · 02/02/2022 21:16

21k at 25, same as yourself.

33 now and on £38k. Same industry, just higher grade from working my way up.

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Bushkin · 02/02/2022 21:18

About 100k

roastingmichael · 02/02/2022 21:28

About 18k I think.
Now at 40, about 31k. It would probably have been more but I've completely changed career twice so had to start again.

jennymac31 · 02/02/2022 21:33

I was earning £27k when I got my 1st job after postgraduate course (I was 24) but I left the job after 2 months as my boss was a dick!

I turn 42 next month and am on £55k. You could say that I've had a squiggly career journey but my salary is higher than I had ever anticipated to earn.

sparklecrazy · 02/02/2022 21:40

Shock Christ, some of these salaries! I was on 18k at 25. Now I'm 40 and on 21.5k. Not much of a difference at all. DH also about18k at 25. Now at 40 he's on 26k.

trunktoes · 02/02/2022 21:45

I was probably on the same as you - now I am in 250k I am 48. Don't sweat it you have years left

cpox · 02/02/2022 21:48

25k
Marketing. Leeds

MmeSosostris · 02/02/2022 21:49

@sparklecrazy yep

FrugalFrancine · 02/02/2022 21:51

God hardly anything at that age. I also graduated at roughly that age - think I was 23. Then did admin for a non profit which obviously wasn't mega bucks. Think it was £13k or so, but that was back in 2008.

I did work my way up to about £22k plus bonus and then got made redundant on mat leave 😩. Yes, they can and do do that.

Anyway, I took a career break then and only got back to work properly after dc2 who is now four. I'm on £25k now pro rata, but doing part time hours while I retrain.

Chesneyhawkes1 · 02/02/2022 21:53

25 I was training for my current job. So was on 17,500 ish

Age 26 I had completed training and was on 35,000.

Now 43 and on 62,000 - same job

ByMyName · 02/02/2022 21:54

£48k at 25. Central London job, loads of overtime, tiny studio.

£100k at 35. South West, part time hours, children, own business.

LashesZ · 02/02/2022 21:54

25k, was earning 39k 2 years later. I did a lot of career progression in my late 20s

SpaghettiArmsMurderer · 02/02/2022 22:01

@sparklecrazy

Shock Christ, some of these salaries! I was on 18k at 25. Now I'm 40 and on 21.5k. Not much of a difference at all. DH also about18k at 25. Now at 40 he's on 26k.
Are you part time and do you have qualifications? You both earn much less than the England average - the overall England median in 2020 was £31k and for people in their 40s just under £36k.

OP’s £21k is also lower than the median for her age group which is £26k.

longtimemuchchange · 02/02/2022 22:02

I am 25, just been offered £60k.

I left school without any A-Levels, no degree and have now achieved the highest professional qualification in my field. I got lucky and worked very hard!

longtimemuchchange · 02/02/2022 22:03

@longtimemuchchange

I am 25, just been offered £60k.

I left school without any A-Levels, no degree and have now achieved the highest professional qualification in my field. I got lucky and worked very hard!

Sorry - that’s in central London.
jay55 · 02/02/2022 22:06

About 28k at 25, 20 years ago.

newmum2be101 · 02/02/2022 22:06

When I was 25 I was earning 27k (am 27 now and earn £36k). Living in Yorkshire Smile

mrsed1987 · 02/02/2022 22:08

About 38k.

Fairylightsongs · 02/02/2022 22:09

I don’t think this is about what you earn now but what is your career projectory. What will you earn at 35 or 45?

countdowntonap · 02/02/2022 22:10

Same as @SausageRoll2020
£19,000 at 25 as I was in post grad education, but £60,000 by 35.

sparklecrazy · 02/02/2022 22:12

@SpaghettiArmsMurderer Both full time, no degrees just A Levels and a BTEC. Im in accounts and DH is band 4 in HMPPS. I'm aware we're below the average, just didn't really realise how high the average was Smile

DSGR · 02/02/2022 22:15

Next to nothing. Now 45k mid 40s

Snally82 · 02/02/2022 22:21

£28k (15 years ago)

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