What job would have a take home pay of approx £5k a month?

[homestartvolunteer]

I’ve been trying to work something out and just wondered - what sort of job/career makes that’s sort of amount (5k per month / £60k per year actual take home amount)

This is such an odd thread. Please don't encourage these people to think they can walk into a £100k job with no qualifications bar a couple of GCSE's and no training. The type of jobs that would carry these salaries - in any field - trade, proffessional etc - require either years and years of on job training to get to that level or significant professional qualifications.

I’m a business coach and coach people to that figure all the time. You’ve got to have a clear offer and enough clients obviously. It can definitely be done

That’s without any pension taken off.

My PA earns about that. She’s very good at her job, bless her.

Do you think this is achievable for the people OP is advising? They don’t have any work experience and no qualifications beyond a levels.

My son earns over that, lucky so and so. He’s a data analyst and has just been promoted and earning even more. It’s a job he loves and recently applied for a job within the company as he needed something more challenging. At 24 he was earning more than me and my partner put together.

We run a B&B in a beautiful Devon coastal tow - , just the two of us, no staff and we earn a great salary. Wonderful lifestyle we are our own bosses, no staff and we close from November until early March. After years in local government jobs we needed a change. I wish we’d made the move earlier

Im a nurse, and evan a senior 1, dosent earn that much

My brother in law is a PA and earns £95’000 per annum. He just has GCSES but it took years of hard work. Brother in law is 38 and started working at 16.

Dentist

I'm a senior nurse and my take home is £2700 after tax, NI and pension contributions. Pension won't amount to much in comparison to before the Tories got their hands on it.

this is a good tool
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/tax-calculator/

@homestartvolunteer

Isn’t the whole premise flawed?

£5k per month including childcare for two children?

Thar could easily be £3,000 per month so actually more like £2k for one person.

Or any other combination given there are adults to children at a ratio of 3:2

I think perhaps you should reconsider giving them advice about work and salary OP.

£100k is the gross figure. So something like London lawyer newly qualified (ie after 6 or 7 y ears of studying !!!!! and passing all the exams) - I am a London commercial lawyer with 4 lawyer children so that is the one that springs to mind first purely for that reason.

So many people know what friends, family and even acquaintances earn. I’m surprised at that. I only know what my DP earns because it impacts me and he knows mine but nobody else does (well apart from my boss obviously)

Bricklayers and other trades which we are short of are around the 80-90k Gross

My son works for the Civil Service and earns over £50 thousand a year. My daughter and her husband are also civil servants and also earn this. Someone else I know works for a private company but I can't remember the name.

lift installations

commercial (not residential) electrician

DH has his own business and clears around £150-£180K pa.
It has taken him years to build it up to that though and it has been bloody hard work.
If he loses a contract though that could easily drop, or he could gain a new one and earn even more - being self employed isn't a guaranteed salary but has many perks. As well as many disadvantages.
I'm also self employed but part time - I could work a lot more (and will when DS is older) and earn a ton more than I do. But the hours are long, I'm always in work mode and often have to do my admin at night. It isn't easy being self employed by any means.
You either need to be highly educated to gain a career paying that amount of money, or work hard for yourself and build your business up so you're hitting that figure pm.

My eldest son is a senior team, front-end software developer leader.

He is on £65,000k per year, so just over £60,000k a year, you mentioned.

He can go further in the ladder up to about £120,0000k per year.

Basically, he develops the software for websites, so when you turn your laptop/phone on the sites you go on, what you see on the front screen is what he does.

He is in the specialist area of education and related software at this time.

Yes, I'm used to paying builders/bricklayers/plasterers220 to 250 pound/day, and plumbers 300 to 350/day - and this is in a very rural area far away from London. Many work Saturdays, too, or charge a full day rate for 6 or 7 hours work and manage to fit a couple of emergency appointments (broken boiler etc) at 120/hour in. So OP, I would point your family who has few qualifications to the local FE college to look into a course in bricklaying/plastering/plumbing etc. - that would probably be the cheapest and quickest way to a well paid job. 2 persons can do the manual work and set up shop, and 1 person does the admin from home while looking after the children. Alternatively, look for a job agency that specialises in construction. They often have 'no experience required' jobs that provide training for paint sprayers, window fitters, assemblers etc that pay significantly better than National Minimum Wage. Or paid training as a bus/lorry driver is better than NMW.

Drives me mad the husband salary bragging too.
I clear £6.5k. Senior doctor in a national leadership role. Worked incredibly hard to get here too- top A levels, 5 years med school, 7 years speciality training and 7 years climbing the leadership ladder.

£50k per annum will not be anywhere near £5k a month take home. It will probably be just under £3k per month once pension contributions are taken.

also it is highlight unlike any of the three people in question could join the civil service at even middle management level - never mind at the level required to have a take home salary of £5k per month.

Heating engineer? One charged me £110 for 20 minutes today.

Someone asks how people know -0 well some jobs have pulbished pay - NHS, teaching for particular levels of staff. The trainee solicitors (which I should have said in my post above is the 2 years on the job training included in my 6 or 7 years to get to 100k post above) and newly qualified ones in the bigger firms have wages that is the same for everyone at that stage is that firm which is published.