Earning £60k aged 23.

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If someone told you that their child was 23 and already earning £60k, would you believe them?

But if they stay on as an NQ then they will be overpaid for the first year or two.

Why not? It's not impossible.

Yes, provided there was context.

@Giveover80 Plus, the firm needs to recoup their costs for the GDL course or the LPC

Yes. I know some graduate management consultants who started on 50k at 21 or 22 so by 23 I can believe 60k is possible. Are they worth it? Debatable!

I'd question whether the child was OK with their parent sharing their salary information - to me, that's very private. The actual salary seems plausible depending on their career path.

I did- working in recruitment many years ago.

If they work in investment banking or for the MI5 etc. Maybe also possible in sales and recruitment?

In fact- there was a guy on the team at 22 who was on 200k. Loads of money in recruitment if you are good.

Completely believable. IT, Consultancy, Investment banking. The ones I know are all grads and working long hours and high stress. They definitely earn their money.

Plumber, banker, lawyer - perfectly possible.

Yes, I would believe them. Perfectly possible dependent on passive income and finance/fintech jobs. However it'll probably be a cut throat environment and pretty tough.

Yes , some of DH work colleagues are early 20s and earn around this salary .

Yes

There are lots of graduate jobs in London that easily pay this.

Not just law (although that would be a high salary for a trainee, which is what you’d be at 21). The NQ’s at DH’s firm start on 95k at 25/6 (although that’s still barely enough to buy a flat.)

My godson (21), who is very good at hard sums, is starting as a graduate recruit for a US bank in London in September on 90k. I reckon he’ll be on. 200k in a couple of years.

Where I live it’s very common for people that age and a little older to be on that kind of money. Lots of high earning apprenticeships in engineering, nuclear, project management.

Well, I probably would given my friends haven’t any form for being bullshitters.

I would ask what the job was, there are “Geeks” in many fields that can command that salary. If he/she turned up in a flash car that would confirm it.

It would depend on whether you believe anything else they say but it is perfectly reasonable for someone that age to earn that figure

Of course I would believe it. MN posters never believe that there are high earning professions. Finance, tech, law...

It would be believable in my industry if you were going pushing for it. At 23 I earned around £25k but when I was made redundant a few years later I was looking at £80k and up if I wanted to work full time

Yes especially if you're in tech and finance. And you don't need to be based in London either.

This is based on what I know about my children and their peers.

Came to say the same thing.

50k when training fresh out of uni then 100k + bonuses once qualified.

with a good degree in maths or computing, you can walk into jobs with that salary. I know two kids who've done it straight out of undergrad / masters.

Yes