What is your salary and what is your job role?

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Been at my company 5 years and am earning under £35K. Albeit did start on £19k.

Civil servant £62k
Counsellor (self-employed - part-time) varies £15-18k

Civil Servant. SEO grade. I have a STEM degree and 34 years of service. 46k in London. I do get an extra £7k for covering on call and working some weekends and bank holidays so £53k. Outer London office with parking.
Promotion to G7/ assistant director would give me £61k but I would have to travel to central London 3 days pw for most jobs and would lose time and money so am stuck here until I retire I think.
I get £14k pa in pension contributions.

@tachetastic what kind of public policy role do you do, presumably not government! Big 4?

Recently retired from clinical dentistry after over thirty years. Four days a week in a very high needs area , also training newly qualified dentists £38,000 before tax.

Finance Controller in a heritage charity - £44k for 4 days, 6% pension, statutory holidays etc. ACCA with 25 years PQE, have done similar roles in 3rd sector most of that time, pay was much better at big INGOs but travel didn't work with kids. Single parent with £0 maintenance so it's tight.

Nurse, band 7, £52K, 13 years experience

Wow teachers earn a lot more than I expected given you always hear them saying they are underpaid

£105,000 solicitor, seven years PQE.

To answer a follow up question OP, whilst my husband earns only slightly less than I do we have never felt so hard up. I appreciate we are privileged but with our mortgage shooting up over £1,000 a month and two sets of nursery fees, our disposable income is significantly less than when I was a trainee solicitor without dependents on £40,000. I look back at photos of us holidaying care-free in Bali, China, Brazil etc and wonder when we will have the sort of spare cash required to do that kind of thing again!

£130k. Partner in a regional law firm in family law. The hours are long but flexible as I’m senior but the work is very stressful. People getting divorced are not at their best, although I try to do my best for them. I deal with a lot of emotional trauma every day.

Nurses earn well too I see.

@Augustus40 yes I was surprised by that too

Can I just ask those of you earning over £70k what do you do with your £? I just can’t fathom having that amount of disposable income!

Unlike a public sector worker i get a shitty DC pension so i put 15% of what i earn into that for starters.

Lots goes in tax. I get £5,500 i to my bank account. After my half of the mortgage, bills, food, kids activities, petrol and travel to work there's about £1.5k left.
I try to save a bit for holidays etc but loads seems to go every month on stuff for the children - gifts for friends birthdays, school uniform/clothes/shoes, occasional haircuts, one takeaway a month.

I also don’t have any disposable income for luxuries. I am a single parent, bought my ex out of our house on divorce then mortgage rates went up. I don’t have kids at private school and I can’t afford to take them on holiday. I have three teenagers and they’re expensive, they have what they need and a decent standard of living but I can’t afford to spend freely. I could live in a cheaper home, it’s a nice house but I’m trying to keep it going until the kids have left home as it’s such a good location for teens and I have no time to be a taxi service by moving further away from the transport links we currently have. I find as a divorce lawyer people spend up to what they have in most cases and get financial commitments to match their salaries.

But you have to compare teacher and nursing salaries with other graduate professions not pay in general.

Most nurses and teachers earn far less than most lawyers or people in finance/marketing/private sector middle managers.

If we want talented people to do important jobs the pay and conditions need to be attractive but they're not. Pay is comparatively low and conditions can be unpleasant.

Having to deal with sick/injured/distressed people, shift work, physically demanding or stand in front of 30 potentially disruptive and unco-operative teenagers for hours every day and spend more hours at evenings and weekends marking and planning compared with office work that pays more?

Local authority, Director, £100k

Investigate miscarriages of criminal justice. 38k which is a joke for the skills and knowledge required, however, I’ve come from emergency services and the flexibility and fact I can finally have a life is worth it 10 x over.

110 and off half the year! Couldn’t beat it

@RandomNameChange52 but a lawyer earning more than 100k will have completed for exams, worked longer hours and had to get a very competitive TC. Teachers don’t have that. They constantly say they aren’t paid for holidays, so they are actually very highly paid for the 2/3 a year they work

Looks like anyone in arts/ heritage/ publishing/ journalism (like me) gets paid bugger all, regardless of skills and experience.

I feel like I should have been told this, given a good shake etc. Instead I followed my dreams. So that's why I have a full-time job and freelance on top, and still make less than £50k a year (before tax, no perks, basic pension). I am nearly 50.

I was wondering how anyone can afford to drive around a nice car, go on nice holidays, shop in Waitrose etc. Now I know.

Is 50 too old to retrain as a lawyer?

Publishing salaries are so depressing. Also went to Oxbridge and have a masters and never earned over 30k as an editor (15 years experience). It's only a viable career for the independently wealthy now. Really need to change career. I do like books but not THAT much!

I disagree. Yes the disparity in salaries is massive but it highlights what roles do pay well and can hopefully inform others about what paths to take.

Charity sector, 35 hours, 32k, been in role 15 years

Absolutely. Every pharmaceutical, biologic or medical device manufacturer will have clinical advisors, either on staff or working for the consultancy companies they use. They'll either be supporting customers with implementing their products, selling to hospitals and clinics, or developing/maintaining the body of clinical evidence supporting their product claims.

The best place to start is the job pages of companies she's already familiar with at work so she can start seeing what's out there. They love having staff with clinical experience of their products. This could be something as simple as a medical bed or paracetamol, or as complex as immunotherapies or a surgical robot. Consultancy service names I'm familiar with who employ clinical teams include Emergo, RQM+, QServe, SciMed, Safehand. There are lots supporting clinical trials.

The other option is going down the regulator route. Notified bodies (BSI, SGS, TUV... lots) and the MHRA will both have clinical staff.

Specialist recruiters will be happy to talk to your DD about her options. Hobson Prior and Indomed Professionals are two I've worked with.

66k solicitor 4yrs post qualification mid-tier firm. Took 11 years to get to this salary, uni law degree, post graduate qualifications and a period of training. Sole earner, DH now SAHD medically retired from his job earlier this year following an accident at work. Not a lot left at the end of the month.

Me too, I think my sector massively underpays