If you were privately educated in the UK, what job do you do and how much do you get paid?

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You often hear that people who were privately educated had a better start in life and that's why they are more likely to secure better-paid jobs.

I was not privately educated but I am well paid. So I'm curious to see what jobs people who were privately educated in the UK have as adults, an how much they earn from those jobs.

I know of two young year 8/9s who are utterly miserable at their eye wateringly expensive schools but parents won't consider moving them.

What terrible parenting !!

That's not the problem of 'private school' though. That's just stupid parents picking the wrong school and being insensitive to their children's needs. What a waste of money and what a sad childhood m!!

PLUS the concept that going from private to state and the "eaten alive" idea

What? I know several families that chose private education for early secondary and then moved their children to a state sixth form college. Happens quite a lot actually.

He tried telling them he was miserable. They just told him he couldn’t be

Poor child

Such people should not be allowed to be parents imo

How snobby. We stay in a small, two bedroom flat, but we are by no means struggling financially - we stay here because our mortgage is nearly paid off; and it’s conveniently located; in a “safe” area. We could certainly afford to live somewhere fancier (our home is worth the equivalent of one year of our joint salary) and we could afford to privately educate our kids if we chose to do so (which we won’t, as I’m opposed to private education)

Peoples property size does not necessarily correlate to their financial position.

@cantkeepawayforever unfortunately in private schools, teachers do not need to be qualified with either degree or teaching qualifications

Several of my family members without degrees work in private schools and this is 100% true

So no, I don't rate quality of private school staff over state.

I am well aware of that, hence my saying after careful interrogation of who is actually teaching

I agree that private schools can and do employ unqualified individuals to teach classes. However, under the current circumstances of acute teacher shortage in some subjects, a good private school where you have carefully verified that the maths/science/IT teachers are qualified, employed in sufficient numbers, and have low turnover, may be a better bet than a state school where such teachers may now be a rarity.

This would not have been advice I would have given 5-10 years ago, where under general conditions of ‘sufficient teacher numbers’, the risk of unqualified teachers in front of classes in many private schools might have tipped the balance the other way.

I work in a team with someone who regularly drops into the conversation they were privately educated, then degree educated (joint honours maths/physics). The other 3 team members went to state school, don't have degrees (2 have very few school qualifications, I have a HND), we started our careers with jobs in logistics or low entry IT.

We are all very similar ages and life stages, they are the lowest sub band (D, the rest of us are A/B). Band D is circa £50k, Band A circa £75k.

IME it really depends on the company you work for, some do value a school or a qualification on a piece of paper, others are more progressive and value performance, results and experience when recruiting or giving opportunities - I'd rather work for the later.