Salary, job and stress levels

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What’s your salary, role, and stress levels (or work life balance)?

I earn £42k per year, I’m a civil servant. My stress levels are low, although I find the culture and pace frustrating at times. I have a good work/life balance as I WFH.

My salary is au$270k temporarily. Trying to make it permanent. Stress levels are ridiculous

WFH 49k base(but decent benefits and stock amounting to about 72k) in a high responsibility job in finance and stress in my job is off the charts, I’m looking to leave and work on selling art!

£53000 - NHS. Stress levels have been high due to staff shortages. About to change role. Will earn the same but working from home and no more staff responsibilities so think stress levels should reduce and have a better work life balance.

£115k and I'm extremely stressed - all the time. I work long days, then evenings and some weekends... I've recently been wondering whether it's worth it (!!).

Not much more than min wage. Nursery worker, can be very stressful due to increases in behavioural issues and SEN but no funding for extra staff to support them outside of normal ratios. Also seems impossible to find qualified staff due to such a small pay difference between qualified and unqualified. Most are getting better wages for less stress outside the industry.

I earn just over £20k for a 30 hour week. I work a 4 day week and feel I've got a good balance. Most days are not stressful but some days can be.

75k, senior (not the most senior) techie in a startup, stress levels currently very high and have been since about March. Just had a week off and truly relaxed and now dreading Monday!

Sticking it out for now as stress levels are also high because of 1 trying to move house 2 chronic illness, waiting on surgery 3 unwell parent 4 effect on relationship of all of the above - so work might be manageable once the rest calms down, and they're brilliant people to work with

I'll be pushing for a payrise next time it's reviewed though - the other guy in my position earns more 😏

I also WFH at least 4 days a week (sometimes 9 days a fortnight) and they're incredibly flexible where they can be around medical appointments etc which makes up for a massive amount of the stress

Salary 160K, after bonus £300-450K. Business Development. Work from home, do a fair amount of UK and international travel though. Occasional stress but normally pretty chilled. My boss wants me to take his job within a couple of years, which would be a Global Head position. No fricking way. That would be super stressful and when I’m already on great money absolutely not worth whatever salary rise I would get. I’ve got a pretty much perfect money to stress ratio right now, after years of graft and stress for far less money, so why change it?

40k, work 44hrs a week including every other weekend. Stress levels vary massively - I line manage 50 people and am responsible for many areas of the business. I've just had a week AL and don't want to go back.

Line manage 50 people on £40K. that's obscene!

£36k + 24% pension = 45k
teacher
low stress
13 weeks holiday
no wfh but hours are only 8:30-3:30 most days

£31k - but pro rata'd to 4 days a week - it's mostly not stressful but my manager can stress me out at times.
DH earns more than me so my pot is just for the extras like a holiday or clothes etc, so I'm happy with that arrangement!

I'm an IT contractor, charging about £700 a day. Work 8-4, zero stress - just go in and do my work. No office politics, no people management, no performance reviews - just go in and deliver. Been doing this for 20 years - could never go back to permiedom

55k-ish teacher in leadership role. Stress levels variable. I like variety and problem solving and am a real people person. So teaching suits me down to the ground. I also teach a practical subject that I am really passionate about and doesn’t require endless marking and I work in a school that has reasonable expectations of work/life balance. I’ve been teaching for 20 years and am pretty unflappable in the classroom. But when it is stressful it is horrendous. The Ofsted process is brutal. This week has been hard in the heat.

£37k social care so quite stressful lots of risk management

£65 middle management clinical NHS.
Very stressful - always a balance between direct patient care and clinical supervision of junior staff which should take up all of my hours but then have to line manage and train 11 staff, work on approx 10 different “work streams” at the same time - e.g. clinical governance, patient safety incidents, service development, endless audits, pointless teams meetings etc. The desk work job is a full time job in itself so coupled with the full time direct patient care work load, I am at breaking point most days. Not sure it’s worth it tbh. Never feel like I’m doing a good enough job in either of the roles.

£28k, part time nurse. Work is stressful when I’m there but I don’t bring it home with me, unless it’s been an upsetting case or death when I have a glass of wine and a hug from
DP.

I agree!

The person is selling themselves short. Get a new job!

47k. Love my job in learning and development. I work a 9 day fortnight so off every other Monday. I lead a small team. Can get a bit stressful at times but overall it's pretty easy going. Have great work life balance with WFH/office days.

Used to be in a very stressful job. Best thing I ever did was leave it. It's a totally different life now.

😮😮 that's crazy! Are there managers within that 50 people or do they all report directly to you? Don't blame you for not wanting to go back x

70k as a headteacher. Usually moderate to high stress but I do get time in the holidays where I can relax and work at a calmer pace. At times the stress is horrific and last year was the closest I've come to being unwell with it (waking up at 3am and vomiting, constantly weepy, etc.) I love my job but I don't know that I'll make it to 68 running at those kind of stress levels.

97.5k, Ops Director. Stress very variable as in a start up. Hours 40-50 per week.

in a good week it’s all fine. In a Bad week I can’t sleep with worry.

50k NHS. WFH. Least stressful job I've ever had thank God as have significant MH difficulties resulting from previous roles.

I am very lucky and very grateful.

£61k plus 10% bonus. Business Manager for a small company. Stress levels and workload vary. Meant to be a 4-day week - not managed that in the last few months but the work is varied and interesting (some humdrum but not enough to bother me)

£120k, self employed accountant, excellent flexibility and work life balance but the stress goes with me everywhere I go. Trying to learn to deal with stress better because it's not productive when I'm not at work. Plenty of time off too, I work maybe 5 hours a day so there's no reason to be stressed except that being self-employed means it's all on my shoulders always, and that's hard to shake.