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.

Wow! This has given me the kick up the bum I need.

I work as a carer on minimum wage. Youngest is due to start school next year. I’m early 40’d. Looking to retrain in IT/accounts or healthcare.

This thread has inspired me.

Local Council admin. 30 hours. 18k. Just had this year's pay award. Lucky lucky me.

Office manager 42k

Amazing, so inspiring that you qualified while having DC.
You've given me hope about my life and prospects, honestly

I don't believe I did say I thought it was unique to teaching?

My point remains the same though. It's harder than ever before for teachers to progress to the upper psy scale. This is because budgets are so poor now that schools simply can't afford to pay their experienced teachers what they're worth, so they keep them on MPS 6. Even taking on big responsibilities, such as leading a core subject, doesn't automatically come with a TLR.

I was never insinuating that the situation is unique to teaching. I was simply responding to the person who seemed to believe that most teaching salaries quoted on this thread were what regular class teachers get paid. My point was simply that most teachers get paid nowhere near that much, unless they're in the position to take on leadership roles. Most teachers who had responded before me, quoting high wages, also clearly stated they were in leadership roles. This point seemed to have been missed by the person I was responding to so I was simply pointing that out. That's all.

Vet 37k

Teachers are not paid enough.

I’m Head of Marketing for a media / publishing company. On £65k FT but currently working part time post maternity leave.

On reading back, it appears it was you I was originally replying to anyway. In that case, it was you who completely missed thae point that most regular classroom teachers are on nowhere near 50k. You stated that most teachers in this thread are earning around 50k, which you feel is a great wage. Whilst you are correct that most teachers who had responded to this thread were posting such salaries, you missed that they were all in leadership roles. Most teachers are working somewhere on the main pay scale and therefore will not be earning more than 43k per year currently, no matter how many years of experience.

We can differ in opinion over whether that is a decent wage or not for the job they do but the point remains the same, most teachers are earning nowhere near the amounts stated by some in this thread.

Such an interesting thread... I love hearing about people's roles.
Question for those in the staggering £200k + vicinity... genuinely interested... do you find all the stress/long hours etc (if indeed there is) worth it for the high salaries, or is it a short-term thing... or do you really enjoy your roles and you'll stay put for a while?

@countrytweed, to answer your question, I love my role. I don't find it stressful (well, occasionally, if there is a crisis that needs managing with care). I love building something wonderful (the academic programming of an esteemed educational institution) for brilliant students (mainly undergraduates) and elevating the work of wonderful faculty. And I enjoy spreading the word about our institution to others, whether that's prospective parents or prospective donors.

I think a lot of it was right place at right time luck.

After nearly 2 decades out the classroom as a SAHM, I got a DDSL support staff role. Atrocious pay for the responsibility. Found I was really good at it.

Applied for an SLT Senior DSL (non teaching role) by writing about my experience and not disclosing current salery - jumped from 22.5K to 44.5K. I've clearly found my niche because Im really good at what I do, turned the school safeguarding around fairly rapidly.

Then while SDSL, the Assistant Head (Attendance) left. I told Head I could lead attendance too, but I wanted to go onto the teaching leadership scale (was on support staff scale as SDSL) and the AHT title.

Head said yes. I was honestly expecting an offer of L1 (49k, I think- so still a pay rise) and planned to negotiate up to L4 or 5. But was immediately offered L11 (£63.8k). I've not got a teaching timetable (although have QTS) because I'm quite operational in both safeguarding and attendance.

So, I've gone from 22.5k to 63.8K in 9 months. It still blows my mind. I'm very grateful and I love my job.

Well done to you for negotiating this so well!

Specialist clinician in A&E. 22 years experience, registered professional with degree and masters £42.618

Not me but dh, on much more than that. The stress, the responsibility and pressure - it's a lot. I wouldn't want to do that.

I definitely find the stress of my role (private equity owned business CEO) can be overwhelming at times. It’s a balance, the rewards can be astronomical (7-8 figure equity award after 5-7 yrs) but I am permanently on call. I have been to Japan, Thailand, Saudi, US, Canada, Belgium and Kuwait this year and already have 5+ trips planned for ‘25.

It is government actually, but with lots of governments cooperating together to develop consistent policies.

I was Big 6, Big 5 and Big 4 in my 20s back in the 1990s and early 2000s and I worked to help big companies pay less tax but at that age I never thought about the moral implications of what I did. In my early 30s I came to my senses and made the move to the public sector and now I work to make sure that companies pay the tax they are meant to. Not a penny more but not a penny less.

In my current in house legal job it is stressful at times but overall worth it for the great money.

In my previous job at a law firm the stress wasn't worth it...no work life balance at all and very late nights even when heavily pregnant. I couldn't go back to that.

I'm lucky that I moved to an in house role which pays the same as my previous role so it was a no brainer.

I smell bullshit, 8 figures is 10000000 so 10 million. Besides if you're that busy what are you doing having the time to go on mumsnet?

^ Because I find it a helpful forum. I’m sorry you don’t believe me. I took a business worth £40m and sold it for £650m - the reward for that is significant

I think a lot of it was right place at right time luck.

Have you ever heard a man say this?

I do work very long hours but on the whole they are under my control. I work most evenings and weekends, but I also tell colleagues if I need Wednesday afternoons off to attend my son's matches and they respect that, and I manage to either take time off or work reduced hours for pretty much all school holidays including the summer. Overall it balances out.

Thankfully I am not responsible for selling anything. I was miserable in that role. I am good at what I am good at, and selling is not what I am good at. 🙃

@countrytweed I love what I do, it can be stressful at times but much less than when I was in a law firm earning significantly less.
In answer to the question about what I do with the money - a LOT goes in tax. Maximum pension and ISA contributions, my pension isn't full yet.
Supporting student DC. Savings and investments.
Drive an old car, don't have a mortgage.
I'll loosen up and spend a bit more once I know the pension is sorted.

Assistant engineer in the utility industry - 33k - 4 years experience - West Midlands based

@Chiaseedz , for context, while my salary is generous, colleagues that I trained with and remained in the private sector are typically earning two to four times what I am. But I'm not bitter...... 😂

@YourBusyTurtle Judging by many of the posts I see on mumsnet, a lot of people sink huge sums of money into large and ugly cars. There are people who actually spend £300 a month or more on a car that they don't even legally own.

To me, that's just instanity- why would I do that when I can just drive a normal car instead, and have more disposable income.