If you earn over £100k

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What do you do? How long have you been doing it? What qualifications do you have/how did you get into it?

Working in the NHS and considering leaving to peruse a career with higher earning potential.

Sorry - that was a reply to @2kids2catsnolife (and I guess the same point that @Stripedbag101 was making)

But they’ve bagged him, so #braggingrights

(Ps. TV exec. Over £100k a year. 25 yrs experience)

My DH earns over £100k in the NHS. He is a director.

I would take every answer with a pinch of salt OP. Only 5% of people earn over £100k, and they tend to have to put the hours in (as in more than is probably healthy)

Yes, it’s sickening.

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Are you clinical? If so you might struggle to get better paid than NHS without going back to uni to do a different career.

Why does the ‘my husband’ comments upset people so much. Nothing to say the OP can not do those roles as well?

Tech, historically I worked in start-ups, now big-tech.

I 'broke' six figures in 2012 - about 12 years into my career.

Interested in the poster who said they now earn that doing their nhs job in a locum capacity. Would this be possible in one of the allied professions like occupational therapy or salt?

Just wondering because I need to earn more at some point and I am definitely more of a helping, people person which doesn't tend to fall into the high paying jobs category.

Why does the ‘my husband’ comments upset people so much. Nothing to say the OP can not do those roles as well?

Well anyone can make a list of people who earn over £100k,"prime minister", "my boss"; husbands don't have to deal with the motherhood penalties, the glass ceiling, and they're not here to answer questions about the role, so when an OP asks what YOU do to earn £100k on mumsnet, I think the question is pretty simple.

I agree. The question was about the type of jobs that pay well. Does it really matter who does them?

But since it's clearly sensitive, my colleagues and I earned more than that in our first year in corporate finance/investment banking 20 years ago (all recently qualified lawyers or accountants). Directors could easily earn million pound plus bonuses if they brought in the fees.

Not me, but DD, head of people in tech. Her degree is completely unrelated, she's worked hard, but not outrageously so. Still in her 20s, on over £100k.

Auditor in a mid-size accountancy firm. 12 years after graduating but that includes 2 maternity leaves and 2 years of part time. Salary is £105k plus small bonus and not reached the top of my earning potential.

I don’t, my husband does. CFO with two relevant degrees and 40 year’s experience of the financial markets. First 10, as he was really learning his craft, pretty average salary. The benefits were good, though, if he performed well. If he didn’t, there were none. Which was fair.

Look very carefully into how much you left with after paying
into your pensions on your own, no employer contribution,
how much you need to set aside for holiday pay and if you can afford 35 days unpaid a year
how much for sick pay, bit unpredictable this one
maternity, paid carers leave, compassionate leave etc
how much life cover to the same level as the NHS pension provides
travel expenses

it can be okay to locum if you have paid off your mortgage and educated your kids and can cope if you break your leg or get diagnosed with cancer

the NHS is not great at pay but is fantastic at other benefits

Forgot study leave and study budget and claimable expenses

supervision is also hard when you locum

and also things like who will re validate you, or submit evidence to support that you have attended CPD

Me too!

I work as a freelancer in music industry. Long hours and lots of travel but the money is very good.

I have no qualifications except A levels

@isthewashingdryyet Thanks for the insight!

HR Director for a media company, I have a Law degree, CIPD qualification and masters degree. I have 14 years experience and reached £100k at around 12 years.

It was me. As a doctor - one with no scope for private practice, I am still outearning what I had full time and making up private pension + holiday.

CPD - study budget never covered 90% of it anyway.

Appraisal and revalidation - done via the agency, what a relief it's so easy when not done via your NHS trust

Yes it is a risk with sick pay but no way would I go back to the bullying culture of NHS employment.

Looking around it isn't just senior doctors. AHPs are turning to locumming or setting up side or main businesses in the private sector. My most recent manager was a speech and language therapist who had a size business doing SALT privately over Zoom.

Around 300k (varies slightly depending on bonus size) as a lawyer. In-house now which is a much, much better work life balance. I’m 18 years in, but earned 100k from pretty early on. The training / first few years are pretty brutal in the bigger law firms (I was magic circle but same for US firms etc), but now I can do all nursery pick etc ups and have loads of flex - so very lucky.

I am a lawyer, specialising in construction disputes. I started earning over £100k when I was four years qualified, but the education and training involved meant I spent two years studying law after my degree (a postgraduate diploma in law and then the legal practice course) and then a two year training contract, which is really difficult to then. I am now 7 years qualified, I work part time, four days a week, and am on £130k