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)

I earn £63k and don't take home £5k after tax. I think that's more like a salary of £80-90k.

Sales, especially with a residual trail. I haven't earnt less than £7,000 a week since I was 23

Ha! Not in the UK.
Maybe in USA.

I worked as a Head of Marketing and a Comms Director in Further Education and I was on around that.

I earn the same now working 3 days a week as a content specialist for an awarding body.

There is a massive thing called tax that you are missing. Its not just 5k*12

You would need to be closer to £100k to be taking home £5k a month

DH doesn't quite make the £5k pcm but is a chartered surveyor and director of a building consultancy. 4 year degree and then studying to become chartered.
I work in public sector management and make about £3k. Degree, then post grad.

There are 2 toddlers that would need childcare

Senior nurses 😂 In my trust of circa 5000 staff there are only 2 nurses on that kind of salary band and one of the is the Director of Nursing, so yeah the kind of senior nurses that are on the board...

OP said clearing £5k month/ £60k year.

It really depresses me when women do this - I bet you very few men quite their wives salaries when boasting about big salaries.

one day we will have equality and women will proudly state their own earnings rather than their husbands!!!!

Financial / Investment Adviser / Wealth Adviser.

Some / most? big companies / banks used to ( may still? ) give free training and value 'older' people with life experience - but you need to work hard to pass the professional exams and it's all about targets.

You need great interpersonal skills. Not for the faint hearted but rewards excellent.

Opportunities to set up own company later on. Need to be a 'self starter'.

they were talking about one of the couple looking for work and then the 2 not working to do childcare

Well that’s a crap plan! You only need 1 adult in charge of the kids at any one time, and so they can all work - either 1 FT worker & 2 PT, or 2x FT workers and 1 doing childcare.

My dh clears 6k after tax and pensions and he works in a senior role on a nuclear power plant. He only started in the industry 5 years ago as a labourer so it’s doable. Hardly any women on site though which is a shame.

Why can't one person look after two toddlers like most of us do? Do the adults have some disabilities?

I don't mean to be rude, but are you the right person to be providing work/benefit advice?

Advising someone with few qualifications to become a doctor or engineer or project manager in order to earn £100k a year seems a bit odd.

What are they living on at the moment?

@homestartvolunteer so why can't one of the adults in the home look after 2 toddlers while the other 2 adults work?

They could all 3 work part time, each doing 4 days a week but different days ie

Adult A - Mon, Tues, Wed, Thur
Adult B - Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat
adult C - Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat

That way there would always be one adult, sometimes 2, at home. There's lots of other configurations that could also work like one person working evenings in a restaurant or bar, one person working weekends, 2 people working 3 days a week and another working 5.

It would be relatively easy to ensure that the 2 toddlers had an adult at home with them and therefore incur no childcare fees while adding 3 incomes to the household.

Not what OP said.

In who's dreams?

I was thinking the same

i clear about 3.5k every month part time in beauty so I think could make 5k easy if Full time

I can’t really give any more details than I already have .

I have directed them to speak to their benefits advisor or CAB as they’ve just switched from tax credits to universal credit , I dont think I’m the right person either I haven’t got a clue but they’ve been talking about it when I’ve been there so I said I’d find out what i can

They were just saying to me the rough amount they need to live off due to childcare etc that’s where the figure came from. Looking online though I hadn’t realised they may get 85% of childcare paid though ?

But what qualifications do the adults have OP given that they have no experience or training?

What skills DO they have? I am struggling to understand what makes them think they can walk into a job earning £5k take home a month!!!

It all seems rather.......odd

Surely, only one would need to do childcare and the other two work? They would potentially be in a better position than a traditional family with being able to have a stay at home parent, yet still have two full-time incomes.

And obviously once the children are over three, they would have 30 hours funded childcare (24 if year-round).

Well yes, they'll get most childcare costs covered, plus housing benefit if they're renting. To be blunt if they're all unemployed they're not going to get much more than a minimum wage job, but that's what they'll need to do, and have their income topped up with UC.