If you make 100k+, what do you do?

[fedupofbeingbroke]

I'm just curious. I have two degrees, one being a masters, studied hard, worked hard and still don't make that much money (having DC set me back but was unlikely to have made more than 60k ever). If you make 100k+, what job do you have? How did you make your wealth?

Not me, DH, he is a chartered accountant, has a degree and accountancy exams.

Another solicitor. £160k (low by industry standards) plus a bonus and the usual perks. I head a team of 10 in a media business.

I started there as the most junior lawyer but I've been the most senior lawyer there for more than a decade, so looking for my next opportunity now. Took 7 months mat leave twice.

It's a weird mix of very flexible (I do almost every morning school run and have never missed a school event, child's doctor's appt or similar for work reasons) but full-on - working 9.45am-7pm in the office and then 8.30pm-10.30pm from home is a fairly standard day and I deal with some unavoidable urgent stuff at weekends or (very occasionally) overnight. DH is a SAHD, primarily as we have a child with a disability who needs more care than most kids his age.

It’s ok for women to boast about what their husbands do? They always claim credit for their husband’s salary too.

Thanks for replying with more info…but I have to admit I’m more confused now than ever! 🤣 In what sector? Fish and chip shops or gold mining?!? Banking, advertising, retail, transport, arms dealing, food and hospitality?

So many of these jobs and descriptions appear to have been written by AI and bots. I feel like a lowly Victorian charwoman transported to a weird dystopian future where people just sit in front of computers and click buttons, and they don’t really know what it is they’re clicking buttons for (anyone watched Severance…?). All these jobs seem so surreal and disconnected to the real world. And I say that, truly honestly, with FULL respect to each and every one of you who has achieved such a position and success within your industry. I certainly haven’t in mine.

but it’s so bonkers to me all the myriad ways humans have created weird and wonderful abstract tasks for ourselves, that seems to exist in universes so disconnected from the “real” world. Whatever that is.

I have a silly and useless job by the way. And nowhere near as well paid, so I’m not knocking it. Just sort of marvelling at it.

@fedupofbeingbroke I guess it’s technically an education consultant. I think it’s a combination of having built up leadership experience and having a secondary science specialism.

I landed quite a lucrative consulting role after I wasn’t appointed at an interview but they reached out to me a few weeks later.
You can’t be in a full time role when initially starting out as there are jobs that come up with immediate starts. And there are lots of short term roles.

I also let my colleagues know to reach out if they needed anything.

I did take a FT teaching role + TLR as I eased back into full time work and colleagues reached out sporadically when they needed help and it just went from there.

Work in HR for a tech company, mid-level. Earn around £150k

Worked in Education for 20 ish years. Worked the conference circuit hard, got some high profile speaking opportunities, lots of networking. Lots of involvement in sector bodies. The opportunities started appearing after about 18 months

Chief Executive. Earn that plus bonus.

I stayed home when my dc were small and supported dh building his career. Realised I wanted something for myself and decided to focus on my career. I outearn him now and expect my salary to continue to increase. I also get fab money can’t buy experiences for the whole family.

I was earning £13k pt less than 10 years ago. Changed careers and built up at my current business.

Actuary. One completely unrelated degree, lots of subsequent training and exams. I’m 30, mid level, and on £110K.

I am an engineer within the energy industry. I have a BSc and MSc in the specific technical area I work in and historically not a lot of job security…!

Director General in the Civil Service - one rung down from a permanent secretary. Only just over £100K. Two degrees and a professional qualification. Only one child which I think has helped me climb the ladder.

Law and husband is a sales director for an American company but his undergrad was bio-med engineering. He's very successful and we've taken equity in every start up so on exit, we do well.
He's the big earner.

Used to make $150k as a nanny in New York a few years back.

I missed the bit where the OP asked anyone to boast. It asks for job titles of those earning 100k plus - why does it matter if it's the person who wrote the response or their OH? What does it matter if they feel they helped their OH in getting to and maintaining that role - their OH may wholeheartedly agree? For my children just looking into careers this information is actually helpful regardless of who posts it - to put people off of writing anything because they aren't as 'special' as you is quite frankly ridiculous

£160k+ plus bonus. Corporate lawyer. One undergrad degree and professional skills course. Very stressful job with long hours.

How is that outing? It couldn't be more vague IMO.

@HerculesMulligan when you say £160k plus bonus is “low by industry standards” what are you defining as the “industry”? I think that you are correct if you mean “City law firm” but the legal industry is so, so much wider than that and many people work in small regional firms, high street, residential property, personal injury litigation, family, crime, many varieties of in-house Counsel roles in small business and would not earn close to what you do even at partner level. I know where you are coming from because I am a City lawyer too, but I think that on a thread like this if people are looking for career inspiration to be clear that not all law is well-paid and, to be honest, the best paid jobs can often be ones that are much more like working in business and less about pure legal work.

I agree. I doubt a thread asking this question on a website used predominantly by men would result in lots of people posting about their wife’s salary.

Also surely a big part of a lot of career focused threads on mumsnet is about how mums have combined parenthood with a career. It’s seems a bit disingenuous to then have people posting about their husband’s jobs.

Still in private practice out of the city, or did you move in house? I'm also a corporate lawyer.

It asks ‘If you make £100k what do you do?

Not your husband.

Can’t you see the difference and why it matters?

I love these threads, I love the arguments about whether dh salaries count, and I particularly like @MelroseGrainger contributions on this thread!

I earn over that amount, I work in tech, and I lead data teams for a us consultancy. So @MelroseGrainger doesn't tell me off for not being clear, this means I go into companies who have their data all over the place, and (try) and sort it out for them. I still do a lot of hands on coding stuff too.
I'm realizing I'm quite well paid for what I do as I used to live in the US and had to take a pay cut when I moved back. But not as much as salaries here are lower! (They seem to be about half)
I don't work that hard but I do have to do calls most evenings and have to wait until 5pm for anyone to talk to <tiny violin>

See, now that’s a job I (just about) understand! Appreciate the clarity, thanks. Sounds quite interesting, too.

I do agree with this. A woman (and maybe mother) having a 100k+ salary is (sadly) quite different to a male on equivalent given different obstacles and setbacks.

@MelroseGrainger I work in design and architecture! Not an architect. But the startup was created by a very impressive couple who wanted to make extending/renovating your home easier and more simple.

so I’m dealing with architects, normal people like me and you who might want to chuck a £30k extension on their property and construction companies.

and so that means @MelroseGrainger enen there’s a customer pissed off about a problem on their build or in design I’m the “final boss” of complaints people they speak to. And similarly I deal with arsey builders and suppliers daily, trying to get them to pony up cash! So my job has a fancy title but it’s a very real, very needed job for the business I’m in. Hope that helps clarify, I do agree when you see these strange job titles you do wonder WTF they actually mean!