What is your salary and what is your job role?

[YourBusyTurtle]

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

You don’t get a non-stressful job for 110K - difference being it’s usually stressful 365!

I earn over 200k and husband c. 70k. Sorry if this seems ridiculous but we don't have much spare money at all. Live in London with v big mortgage and a child in full time nursery. Feel very grateful that we live comfortably but really not lots of spare money.

I have 25+ years experience in Information Technology and have a senior role in a global corporate, managing a large team and multimillion dollar budgets.

Base salary and allowances come to £200k, plus bonus of £75-100k, share options, plus final salary pension.

I have a BSc and an ExecMBA, plus domain specific training over the years.

I work long hours, but do have some flexibility within that, and also travel significantly.

It's competitive and an up or out culture, so no real opportunity to take your foot of the pedal and enjoy where you've got to.

Finding it more tiring now in late forties and also have kids who I miss terribly when away. I realise I'm incredibly fortunate but everything comes with its price.

How did you do that?? Amazing ☺️

True. Off for a big chunk of year but not quite half. It's not a job I'd want to do! My husband is not far off headship in primary school and is up for the challenge.

I also think it’s good for women to share job roles and salaries.

I’ve changed my username as my role is quite niche, but here are my details.

I’m a freelance medical writer earning about £100K full time. I’m self employed though so I have no pension, bonus etc on top of this. I work for pharmaceutical companies on a freelance basis on a variety of projects but mostly writing up the results of clinical trials for publication in scientific journals. I have about 14 years experience in this role but prior to that I did a PhD and post doc in cancer research.

My job is hugely flexible due to the nature of the work and also being self-employed. However, it can be stressful due to tight timelines and demanding clients. It’s intellectually very challenging as I work across multiple disease areas with very senior scientists in industry and academia and have to be constantly on top of my game (mistakes are not well tolerated). I travel occasionally for meetings (UK and international) but am largely home based.

The projection is unnecessary - most well paid jobs are stressful and whether you wouldn’t want to do a certain job or wouldn’t be capable of it is irrelevant to this thread.

Thanks. I'm quite aware that well paid jobs are stressful (having one myself). Thought it was unnecessary for you to comment on a headteacher's salary and the fact they're off half the year which isn't even true.

And so it continues 😂😂😂

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Part time support worker for vulnerable women (21hrs) - £14.5k per annum. I’ve been there 5 years but will be leaving soon to an even lesser paid job in a similar role due to being unhappy there. If it wasn’t for my partner I’d be on the streets with 2 children most likely.

Yes! There aren’t really any other options around here. I’m fortunate in that I’ve progressed out of the lab and have a more technical role, otherwise I’d be on even less.
I don’t know where to go from here though. I’d be happy to retrain, I just can’t afford to, already have an MSc so funding could be an issue, and I’m not sure what I could do anyway.

£98k - Technical Director at a mid-size software company and I don't work Fridays (mostly).

Accountant - equivalent to an £85,000 salary, but my share of the company's profits are around £135,000 - I just don't take it all as it I don't need it and I'll only pay more tax on it!

I work around 45 hours a week.

There are plenty of days that I wish I'd not stepped up to be a business owner though and just carried on in my old role. I'd have been earning about £70k a year in that role.

As for the headteacher on £110k - good on you - I certainly wouldn't want the job for any amount of money, so it's good to see someone in education being remunerated appropriately!

I think you’re unpaid

£400k, lawyer, London based, 17 PQE. I love my job but it was never my passion, I chose to go into law because of the pay, basically. Parents were working class and I had the marks to go to a top university so they encouraged me to do law rather than the much lower paying jobs I was interested in (journalism, creative type jobs). Very grateful for that advice now, it's a trade off obviously as the hours are brutal, you are often 'on call' for clients 24/7 and I've had to give up a lot for my career over the years but no regrets overall.

I earn about £50k net (director of my own company no idea what that is grossed up. But I also put about £20k into my pension each year - the £50k net doesn't include that). DH is on about £165k of his net amount he puts in £1500 a month into his pension as he's a fixed share partner he gets no additional benefits from
His firm. We have two sets of school fees that takes up my net salary, kids have lots of hobbies and that alongside high living costs mortgage etc just wipes us out.

My heart bleeds....

32k euro (i think that's around 27.5k in GBP) as an unlicensed aircraft mechanic with zero experience (first job after graduating last month) which is honestly really good pay considering I don't have a license or experience yet - normal starting salary for this profession in my country is 24k (GBP) or less.

@Natsku that seems a bit scary, I think I'd like my aircraft mechanics to be licenced 😂 is it like an apprenticeship?

I thought that too @auberginepeel but I assume that she's very closely supervised and all her work is checked. Sounds like a great career though.

£80k NHS clinical and management

What industry?

Bid writer, 43.5k, charity, 8 years experience.

A licence means a mechanic can sign off on their own work, without a licence they can do the same work but someone else has to sign off on it. I've had the same training and education as someone with a license but you need to log a certain number of years of work before you can apply for a license.
So not an apprenticeship but my work is checked by someone else. I'm working in building planes rather than line maintenance though so not so much license work

@Mirrorxxx on paper yes. But an equivalent job role who manages the risk that having triple the workload/patients we have resources for, being accountable for upto 30 staff on one shift, managing wider operational pressures and meeting KPI's which are completely unachievable would be on a LOT more money.