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

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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)

why they want 5K each? Most of the jobs with such high salary require skills and experience and they don't start earning that.

No you'll need north of £120k, although that will leave take home of slightly more than £5k with 8% pension contribution.

That's great! Thanks so much for replying.

Consultant doctor

Hmmmmmm mmmkay…

Also, some of these are outrageous. Who is Crawford Falconer that he’s being paid £265000 to be chief negotiator of, so far, pretty terrible trade deals?!

No wonder the tax burden is at a 70 year high when we are paying those big salaries to so many civil servants on the link.

Yeah. Sure. Civil servants are the problem.

Brilliant! 😂

So as expected beauticians are scammers. How much do you charge then? 15 to make 13 profit? 20? I hope you are very very skilled to justify paying yourself more than any nurse or teacher to do lashes. Jesus. And people actually pay others to mess with their eyes. No wonder society is the way it is.

We have people applauding this sort of thing then saying 70k is overpaid for a civil servant who actually helps run society. What a joke. Capitalism gone too far.

Well I assume that the beauticians are not dragging people in off the street, holding them down and forcing giant eyelashes onto their faces? Nor will people who have no interest in them see a beautician shop and think, do you know what, I'm going to get that done.

And there will be market forces at work. If someone charges too much, or provides a poor service, they won't get or keep their customers. Plus the cost of the actual product will be a tiny proportion of the running costs of the shop - rent, rates, insurance, tax, utilities, etc etc. So if £20 a time is what the market will bear and the price needed to cover all the other costs and provide the beautician with a wage, then fair enough. Plus they're self employed so don't get a pension, sick pay, maternity pay etc, like nurses and teachers do. It's not a beautician's fault that our government doesn't value professionals like nurses and teachers is it?

The UK's problem with nursing and teaching wages is near monopoly employers. In the US, hospitals and medical practices must compete to hire nurses, so wages are much higher. Teaching is similar. Each school district (LA) negotiates a contract with the local teachers union, and teachers will leave if adjacent districts offer better wages or benefits. If you have no choice of employers, all you can do is strike or threaten to strike.

Employers will pay as little as they can.

@Boomboom22 how on earth are beauticians scammers? I performed wouldn't pay for someone to make my eyelashes longer but it's clearly big business and why not? People are happy to pay for a service and it's a skill. I certainly wouldn't be able shape someone's eyebrows or do nail art even with loads of training.

I'm a foster carer. I get paid very well but it's definitely not something anyone should do just because it pays well.

Well, Only Friends would crack it. If you have the right, er, assets.😉

People can make £5k pcm net, without any particular qualifications, if they have a good idea and set up their own business. Look at the CEO of Hobbycraft; but it’s not going to be overnight!

The civil servants were those on the excel file linked above on sums lie £150k, £250k. I had no complaint about those on £70k. It was a Government spread sheet of wages over £150k. I think it included army leaders too.

Chief information office MOD £180k, ambassador to the USA £160k (okay may be that job does justify that pay), director national gallery £155k etc

The British ambassador to the USA gets extra "tropical duty" pay for serving in Washington, D.C., due to the beastly weather, so it may be higher than 160k.

OP don't give them any career advice please. It's completely unrealistic and you don't have any experience to know what would be achievable or not.

Do you mean Only Fans?

NHS management

Highest I've earned was when I worked in a hospital in rehabilitation and personal care with adults- £24k a year😭 wages are so low compared to the prices of everything right now I don't understand how anyone's affording to live 🥲

aren't you an absolute weirdo. not even worth responding to how bizarre this response is.

Are you still in the same sector? Wages in those kinds of roles are horrifically low.

@GoodChat
Nope, I left just over a month ago as I couldn't afford anything. I had all my training done and was starting to study to be a RN but even then the pay was only £30k a year. My mum is a teacher at a school for children with autism or have been through trauma and she's only on £28k. The nurses where I worked would work like 6 days a week, and we were all on 12hour shifts, and they'd only be on like £2 more an hour that I was (I was on £10.20 per hour). Currently looking for a different job so money is quite tight but hearing back by Monday about a management position I interviewed for! 🤞🏼x x