What's your notice period at work if you earn £30K?

[westcountrywoman]

If you're a team manager in a corporate job, earning c. £30K, what's your notice period at work? Is 3 months normal or excessive for this type of role?

37k - 3 months. Not a manager though.

I'm on a bit more but 1 month notice. Only Execs and Directors have 3 months in my organisation.

12 weeks but this is due to length of service.

Ha - bit of a mixed bag then! I'm applying for a job and the recruiting manager took a sharp intake of breath when I said my notice period was 3 months. I have been with my current company for quite a long time but it's always been 3 months and I think this was pretty standard at the time. Maybe times have changed? I fear this may cost me the new job I'm applying for.

I earn a bit more now but started on that two years ago and my notice is 3 months.

@westcountrywoman I think 3 months is pretty usual the further up the ladder you go. I'm surprised she was surprised!

35k, not a manager, 3 months.

it is sometimes possible to negotiate an early exit but not always.

42k, not a manager…1 month.

You don’t have to give the full notice

esp with earning a low salary it is incredibly unlikely your workplace will go through the effort of making a claim

I wouldn't want to leave my current workplace in the lurch and I'd be very surprised if a new job expected me to (assuming that they wouldn't want me to do the same to them if / when I wanted to leave). I would expect to stay to help recruit and train my replacement. Is that not standard?

30-35 is about an average salary isn’t it? Not a low salary as such?

Of course that’s not standard

Most will leave before a replacement is found

If Your workplace valued you, they’re be paying more. You’re on a low salary, don’t waste opportunities by sticking to an unreasonably long notice period

£38k is average

30 is pretty low considering minimum wage full time is only a bit less!

I'm a manager on 30k. And its a months notice I believe

Three months is pretty standard for a senior role. Mine is one month if I leave within five years, three months after five years. It’s a small company, though.

The OP isn’t snr though so it’s definitely unreasonable

Just over 34k is average for the UK.

30k is not a low wage in the grand scheme of things at all

I would consider a manager to be a senior member of staff.

Lol

@Cheesetoasts - although I'm not top executive level, I'm still in a senior position (as opposed to a junior one). I oversee projects, supervise staff etc.

do you work for a charity?

Where I work notice is linked to how long you've been there, I didn't know that in other places it's determined by how much you earn, I've not come across that before

Is that now the norm?

In my experience, it’s related to your position/job title rather than salary. It’s pretty standard for management to need to give three months’ notice.

Pretty sure your notice period has got nothing to do with your salary.

My industry standard is 3 months. All companies moan about it but then make it a contractual term when you move to them. And no firm ever lets you leave earlier despite that question being asked in interviews too.

Minimum wage is increasing in April to just over 22k for a full time role. I think that’s more than “just a bit less”.