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.

The fact that they're on a shit salary certainly points that way

Pleasure. And thanks for making my brain work on. Saturday night!

After 25 years of being a CEO in the charity sector on much less money I now earn £190k in another sector leading negotiations with government for several billion pounds a year. I am maybe 7 years away from retirement and was always mission driven in my career. I think maybe that was a mistake because a lot of charities are a bit rubbish with uninspiring quality of staff and I now work with a higher calibre of staff team and board. I work much harder now and it's probably more demanding at my age but appreciate the intellectual challenge.

Background is a politics degree and masters. Many years of lobbying and influencing as well as CEO experience - organisational improvement, mergers etc. Lots of media and speeches and political engagement.

Is the post about someone’s DD equally as annoying?

I mean I get someone could put the prime mister, which is pointless but suspect most people could answer what experience / past their DH, Boss or DC have, so still relevant IMO.

I suspect it’s much more about implying only men / fathers can earn over £100k.

So a "shit salary " is anything under 100k by your logic?

I am a software engineer and team lead. It took roughly 5 years after graduation to get to 100k. I work four days a week.

She is looking for personal stories from a primarily female audience.

she can google ideas of salaries over £100k / and let’s be honest they will be primarily filled by men.

here she wanted to know how long it took, qualifications etc.

so for example in finance men and women join in equal numbers out of uni. In my experience Ten years in most of the men are there on big salaries - most women have left.

it’s getting better but it’s still a very different experience. Men are more confident - and men promote men.

I don’t want to hear how someone watched their husband get promotion - particularly if that someone was a horn doing the majority of the domestics to allow him to get there. I want to hear how a woman did it - and specifically how long it took. Because what I am seeing is it takes equally qualified women longer.

I don’t know if you are someone who has done it or not - either way have you read the authority gap. Fascinating.

i face this stuff every day and a little piece of me does when women give careers advice and information not based on their own experiences but what they have watched their husband do.

Is the post about someone’s DD equally as annoying?

Not AS annoying no, still not as useful as someone who is here to talk about it, but more pertinent than someone who has a male experience.

I was speaking for the OP. The whole point of her post was that she's not happy and wants to earn more.

I was head of product development at GlaxoSmithKline worldwide...

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Similar, except I'm a program manager in tech. 25 years experience. Fell into it from getting involved in a major project as a subject matter expert in a particular process within fintech.

Yes same. Women are so often applauded on what their husbands do rather than what they achieved themselves. It’s weird imo to pipe up with what your dh earns on a thread like this

Should have said I hit 100k after about 15 years.

I work for a university OP and we are currently offering really decent schoalrships to women who want to undertake an MSc to convert to a tech career. PM me if you want me to send you details.

Yep, I'm a bit the same. I spent my 20s and early 30s earning a good salary as a lawyer. I saved and put money into the stock markets and built up a portfolio which now earns me £24k a year (although with the stock markets the value has fallen a bit). Post DC, I became a TA. Much better hours, less stress and it's nice not to have to deal with stressful work decisions when life is hard anyway.

I miss the money and the cut and thrust of my last job. Although I'm proud of what I have achieved I wouldn't do it again. It was really hard work and meant giving over half of my Saturdays. I think what people don't realise about high salary jobs, unless you're right at the top you're working really hard.

I am a Director in the NHS clinically responsible for over 3000 staff - been in the NHS over 30 years, clinical qualification, first degree, management degree, 2 x masters degree, paused study for a PhD due to family priorities.

I earn $250k net of taxes. I'm a consultant - it sucks. Hours are generally okay, but can be brutal, computer is never off, phone is never off. Basically permanently on call. Boss is genius but can flip from being charming to ruthless in seconds. I had much better jobs in the past, less money but more flexible. Just interviewed for something that will pay me circa $450k net of tax where the houses are much better. I used to refurb houses on the side and made as much as I earned in my job doing that.

I started earning a £100k plus when I was about 30. Earnings plateaued for a bit but then rocketed when I approached 40. Had to do plenty of shitty things to get here. Certainly don't need the money but equally would be very unhappy if I didn't fulfil my potential.

My advice is pretty simple:

1. Find a growing industry and get in it early, become a specialist and watch demand grow as the industry grows from AI, cyber security to drones and renewables. Make sure you love it and are interested in it.

2. Work for as big a company as possible in that growing industry. As they grow chances are you will grow with it.

3. If you have a great boss who pushes you forward and supports you then stick with them to grow your career.

4. Never be too loyal to an employer - if they need to fire you they will and you should never feel guilt about leaving for a better role - they will cope fine without you.

5. Be proactive, make things happen, deliver projects. Don't sit back and wait. Spot opportunities and take them.

6. Take the shitty roles no one else wants they will look fantastic on your CV and give you great experience. Nice roles pay less and you learn less.

7. Every new job closes doors to future roles and opens doors to different roles. Think 1-2 jobs ahead. What doors are you opening and closing when you take a job.

No, this question comes up every few months, and I think it's really good for women to see how other women are earning well. There was a great thread one-time similar to this where someone wanted to show it to their daughter when recommending university courses.

@YellowAndGreenToBeSeen that was a brilliant answer.

Law at biggest firm in the world. Crossed £100k mark upon qualifying in early 20s. Tough gig though.

Pmsl at ‘sickening’. Yep you sick bastards.

Because mumsnetters hate men and in particular husbands and in particular wealthy husbands.

This is not the case I'm afraid. NHS pension is not what it was, the contributions are enormous when you're earning at higher levels, 12%+ of your salary.

DH and I both rocketed up our wages when we moved to the US - they just pay everyone a lot more there. Moving home he managed to get a job with a remote but US company and I freelance but when the American clients book me I work from home and earn three times more than when I work for U.K. clients

he is a CCO for a gaming start up (a BEng and an MSC and 18years experience) and I’m a voice director (a BA and 16 years experience but the vast majority of that un-or-badly paid