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What's your salary?

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Maximomm · 10/12/2022 20:12

Occupation and salary please.

I'll start

I'm a Personal Trainer. £60K

OP posts:
Eastereggs1 · 10/12/2022 22:04

Assistant manager in private client tax - £40.5k

But thinking about changing career 🙃

gruffalosbrother · 10/12/2022 22:05

happySaturdays · 10/12/2022 21:38

@Lincolnremain to answer your question:

Overpay £4.5k on the mortgage every month (it is £570k and basic cost is £2.6k. Hopefully will mean it's paid off by the time we're 48 (jobs are exhausting and unlikely health will last)

£500 to kids savings share scheme work top up to be total £650k. I have 3 kids and prob have about £8k in savings each. Trying to save full £27k each for tuition fees prior to uni

£800 pension, work tops up so is £2,430 a month. I chrrrntly have about £140k. Didn't really start it until I was 31

My husband earns the same and we live off that

Keep £30k in savings and have some buy to let's that make about £1k a month but take time and need repairs

I am genuinely not boasting - when I was younger reading about women 10-15y older who's managed ti earn a lot really motivated me

If you want to earn more do some IT courses and find somewhere that you can commute to London. Any job starts at £30k. Do contacting £300 a day after a year, then go perm on £50k. Etc get into management

Had a very trying career lots of sexism. Battles. Etc but I want financial freedom and locked down wealth for my kids (something I never had).

Utterly mad to pay your kids tuition,

Readaboutyourself · 10/12/2022 22:10

3luckystars · 10/12/2022 22:04

What is hitting me is that the hardest jobs are probably the worst paid on this thread so far.

Yes and I’ve found the higher up I go the less I actually do. Decisions are higher level but the hours and pace… it’s bonkers.

Interested in this thread?

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megosaurusrex · 10/12/2022 22:11

Community Hub Co-Ordinator, which is a fancy way of saying I work in a learning disabilities day centre.
Around £32,000 a year. Not going to get rich doing this job, but it's a really good salary for the field I'm in.

Thedoglovesmemore · 10/12/2022 22:12

OptimusPrime31 · 10/12/2022 20:21

Primary teacher £32,000 pretax

I know it’s a MN mustn’t got there topic and I’m honestly not being snarky but if this pro rata for 47 weeks a year or the salary that includes the school holidays?

Spliffle · 10/12/2022 22:13

£0 unemployed 😔

Beneficialchampion2 · 10/12/2022 22:14

90k plus 16% shift pay and 10% bonus

Production manager in aerospace. UK leading Civil Aerospace company...

felulageller · 10/12/2022 22:14

I don't have to work.

I have £900 pcm spending money for myself.

Thedoglovesmemore · 10/12/2022 22:14

babyyodaxmas · 10/12/2022 21:44

Medical director of medium sized NHS Trust £155 K do 7:30-5:30 most days on call one weekend a month.

Still more than my doctor husband who does much longer days and more on calls.
NHS, no private practice.

ThisGirlNever · 10/12/2022 22:15

3luckystars · 10/12/2022 22:04

What is hitting me is that the hardest jobs are probably the worst paid on this thread so far.

Depends on how you're classing 'hard'.

The highest paid jobs appear to be those that the least number of people can do - e.g. specialised roles that require high intelligence and skills. If you don't have those abilities, you'll consider them 'too hard'.

Is it fair? Maybe.

I spent two years learning a specialised field of IT to a level that very few people in the UK have done. I did that whilst holding down another IT job. It was incredibly difficult and I was close to tears with frustration on many occasions, but I kept going. There's no way I'd have bothered if I didn't think I'd earn more money at the end.

Ultimately, that's life and the way the system works.

MichaelFabricantWig · 10/12/2022 22:15

theydontspeakforus · 10/12/2022 20:21

Space cowboy. £100 million a year.

Probably more likely to be true than some of these 😂

Jamesandthegiantpeach74 · 10/12/2022 22:16

Ive looked at all these posts and actually feel crap.
Im a single parent to 3, I try my hardest.
Early years educator, SENCo, and supervisor, ok i work time time, my wage is around £12000.
I feel in a couple of years I am going to have to find a 40 hr week job and work all year around and then have to pay for childcare

itbemay · 10/12/2022 22:16

£73k pa nhs part clinical part management

BeReet · 10/12/2022 22:17

I'm a 1-1 TA my salary is £11k

Tadpoll · 10/12/2022 22:17

PixiKitKat · 10/12/2022 21:29

You need to be paid more.

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Helpful.

MyHobbyIsDogging · 10/12/2022 22:18

Lincolnremain · 10/12/2022 21:26

I work with homeless people, it's a challenging but rewarding job

I earn 25k

This thread is making me feel like crying

What the hell do you do with all that money? Such an unfair society we live in, I get that some jobs are worth more but wow, such a massive gap

If it's any consolation, I was lying - just to show that most people on these threads probably do lie, so you shouldn't feel bad. I'm not a barrister, and I don't earn 150k. I'm a divorced SAHM and earn fuck all. I was going to say I was an OnlyFans millionaire.

PepperTreeNews · 10/12/2022 22:20

Storyteller 30hrs 40k

imisscashmere · 10/12/2022 22:21

0 - SAHP!

DottieUncBab · 10/12/2022 22:21

theydontspeakforus · 10/12/2022 20:21

Space cowboy. £100 million a year.

Omg me too!

Tadpoll · 10/12/2022 22:22

Bpdqueen · 10/12/2022 22:01

13k ish a year retail, apparently earn too much to be entitled to any help 🙄

I would check that again. Do you have kids?

PepperTreeNews · 10/12/2022 22:22

ThisGirlNever · 10/12/2022 22:15

Depends on how you're classing 'hard'.

The highest paid jobs appear to be those that the least number of people can do - e.g. specialised roles that require high intelligence and skills. If you don't have those abilities, you'll consider them 'too hard'.

Is it fair? Maybe.

I spent two years learning a specialised field of IT to a level that very few people in the UK have done. I did that whilst holding down another IT job. It was incredibly difficult and I was close to tears with frustration on many occasions, but I kept going. There's no way I'd have bothered if I didn't think I'd earn more money at the end.

Ultimately, that's life and the way the system works.

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Nah, it's just greed. The hardest jobs are doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do. Anyone can be a greedy fucker but lord knows that thinking has fucked up our planet.

teezletangler · 10/12/2022 22:23

Utterly mad to pay your kids tuition,

I disagree. The poster who said they do this earns 135K and can afford it. I think it's madness to saddle your children with any kind of debt in future, even if small or unlikely to ever be paid off, when you can afford not to.

PepperTreeNews · 10/12/2022 22:24

Spliffle · 10/12/2022 22:13

£0 unemployed 😔

Can I ask how you survive? This is a genuine question. Are you in the UK? How do you survive in physical, mental and emotional terms?

Greggsyumyumsmum · 10/12/2022 22:26

3luckystars · 10/12/2022 22:04

What is hitting me is that the hardest jobs are probably the worst paid on this thread so far.

I'd agree.
I keep telling my teenage DD, the lower paid jobs are the ones that you need to steer clear of, not only is the pay bad, you generally work harder and get treated worse.

NooNooHead1981 · 10/12/2022 22:27

I haven't earned proper money since I had my son in 2018. I had a decent career in the publishing industry for a decade from when I left uni then earned up to £30k as an assistant editor in trade publishing.

I then had a head injury and post concussion syndrome, then was injured again by prescribed off label antipsychotic and got a rare neurological involuntary movement disorder called tardive dyskinesia. I've been trying to figure out if I'll ever be confident enough to get back to work next year when my youngest daughter goes to school. I had enough confidence issues with work before all my health problems, and lots of crises of confidence so God knows what I'll be like when I get back into applying. Having anaemia and possibly being perimenopausal haven't helped recently either.

I've had so much potential that I could have used productively but it seems to have been wasted by my health problems. I wish I could turn back time and not be permanently unwell 😢