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.

@Natsku interesting! (hope my light hearted tone came across!) good luck with it.

@addictedtotheflats

Thank you for the vote of confidence!!

Hah yeah it did and thanks. Hope to get my license in a few years but don't actually need it in my workplace, just a 'nice to have' thing. Absolutely love the work though, and would do it for a lot less money.

I feel like that. I did long stints in 2 jobs. Then realised there is no company loyalty and should have just moved around more.

It's a lot higher now than it was, to encourage people in, but then there aren't as many incentives to stay. The difference between each main pay scale point isn't much at all now. For those stuck on main pay scale 6, it's quite depressing to see how high your newly qualified colleagues are paid in comparison, despite having nowhere near as much experience. Sadly it doesn't seem to be a career which values experience and pays accordingly. It's a good job most of us don't do it for the money. Those who do generally don't last very long.

Hear, hear!

I'm also wearing your shoes! Except I didn't vote for that guy.

@BobbyBiscuits not a salary as such or a job role though…unless you mean you get that alongside your job?

Thank you for this insight!

@Microgal well, it's my sole income and they pay NICs on it. Job role- none. Occupation- broken person. I guess that about describes it.

Software engineer - 40K- 4 years. Also do tutoring, which is ~5K extra a year.

I’m in the USA and on $58k there which is around £46k. I’m also at one of the biggest public library systems in the States so it does help. And almost 17 years in. It’s taken me a long time to reach that.

Self employed graphic designer working mainly in publishing, highly variable - anything from 20K - 35K before tax and allowance. Pension from previous job but looking to start a private one. My aim is to work towards over 70K at least but I have young children at the moment which takes time out of my working week.

Document Controller (freelance but at the moment perm).
On £35K but dropped down from £44K on last contract as I needed another job quickly and took this. My pay is related to my hours as I only do 37.5 pw.

I think discussing salaries and how different people got to a particular level is a good thing.

Most of my family were public sector. To them, staying in the PS, working your way up through the grades, was how a professional career was built. This was their career experiance and therefore their advice

To my family, changing employers ever 2-3 years would have looked flighty and a bit suspicious.

Unfortunately, that is precisely what I should have done. Staying put and struggling to get promotions (basically doing the higher job for extended periods of time for no reward) made me look like a mug.

For women it is often the only way to get more money and/or experience. Men are spotted at an early stage and nurtured up. Women are thought to be very competent and stay put. One manager I had said he didn't have to worry about my job function because I was reliable and competent, why would he change it. I quit the next day.

Not in my workplace, we are actively encouraged to progress and move forward, they run yearly women in leadership programs for women in and interested in leadership roles. No one is stagnant in my workplace, we constantly move on forward or sideways.

That's great to hear. It was very hard on the 1990s and early 2000s.

That is so true.

I had become so much part of the furniture that when I handed in my notice, leaving for a near identical but far better paid role, people were genuinely shocked. Like if one of the desks had suddenly stood up and said 'I'm going'. It took a few weeks for it to sink in with my line manager.

Then came the assumption that I would easily be replaced. But you can't easily replace experience in a niche role. I did hear that they had several contractors in succession.

@IDontHateRainbows it's a thread about people's earnings 😂

Change sector. I'm in tech/instrumentation and the starting salary for a marketing person straight out of uni is in the thirties.

HR Manager with 3 years experience, 50k plus an annual bonus of 10% of salary.

Work for a local charity doing everything and anything, c.£31K FTE. But I only work part time. Freelance so no perks, holiday or sickness pay.

Just under 47k as a civil servant in project/programme management, 5 years experience.
Thanks for starting the thread OP, it's been interesting to read about the different salaries and jobs out there.
Im happy to see that people were able to retrain and increase their salaries in their 30s and 40s with DC, I'm in my late 20s and panicking that I might become stagnant where I am. I'm preparing to become a single parent next year so trying to get myself as far up the ladder as possible in the next few years.

@WantOutOfMyHouse - there is always time, don't worry, it's never too late. I didn't go to uni until I was 35 and a mother of 2 DS whilst working full-time. Had my DS3 during my final year, finally qualified as a solicitor at 42.

But this is the same in so many industries. You don’t get paid more just for hanging about for longer. I’m only paid more now compared to 5 years ago because I applied for a promotion and now I’m in a management role. If I didn’t want to be promoted I would stay on around £40k for the rest of my career with a few in-line-with-inflation (if I’m lucky) pay rises. I’m not sure why teachers always think this structure is unique to teaching.