If you have a child in their early twenties: what do they earn?

[PuppyDay]

DD wants to finish her degree, do a masters, then a PGCE to be a history teacher. Starting salary will be approx £32k with 5 years of student debt. It’s less than her cousin who didn’t get A-levels or go to uni and is doing marketing for a gym chain for £33k.

It got me thinking: what are the options out there and how much do they pay.

so what does your young adult child do and how much are they paid?

£6k NHS bursay 😁
Her starter salary will be £27k - £36k when she qualifies depending on where she ends up.

1 yr post UG degree - around £24k in an unrelated sector. She's not moved into her 'career job' yet.

As others say, student loans are a fact of life for anyone who went to university post 1990. Obviously they've got more of a handful in recent years and I wouldn't advise anyone to take on more than they have to but repayments are at source and in a sliding scale. She won't notice them.

Does she have funding in place for the masters? The loan is around £13k to cover both fees & maintenance. DD worked for a year first to avoid more student debt.

It's her choice to do a masters and incur 5 years of student debt-I certainly wouldn't recommend that if she is definitely going into teaching.

I wouldn't recommend teaching at all though, to be honest.

How on Earth is he earning that much? With 6 years experience?

A Head of Year with 4 years experience?

Is this due to the teacher shortage? Are there no older, more experienced, teachers in the school?

it’s an amazing salary. Certainly more than I’ve ever earned but he has worked hard for it. Like all teachers, he regularly works 12 hour days and really cares for his students. He pushes for pay rises and is now on the ups.
I tried to counsel him to take his time and not push his luck but he just says ‘mum if I don’t ask, they probably won’t offer’ 😀

A lot of people here are talking about children that have done well. And, yes, of course, many people do do very well indeed.

But, for every young person earning £40k plus there are likely two or more who are earning around £25k.

My nephew and niece (who are both early 20s) are examples of this. One works for Tesco and the other works for Amazon. Both of them earn between £25k and £30k and are unlikely to progress much further.

However, having said that, my niece is thinking about training as a plumber which is much better paid. She has been talking to my nephew and he's now thinking about training as a brickie.

@Lisbeth50

Well so far she only has three years experience - four if you count her training year. My daughter has been lucky to get on so quickly, I think. She has been a deputy head of year for the last two years and seems to have impressed the relevant SLT members in that role, so when the HOY job came up she applied and I know she beat other internal candidates to the job.

From what I hear, her school doesn’t have a particular recruitment crisis, but of course I don’t have the full picture. There are plenty of older more experienced teachers there. Turnover is quite low and her head of department has been there at least 25 years.

He’s a brilliant teacher and has been promoted in that time. He’s now on upper pay range and also has 2 TLRs.

@yakkityshe left school at 16 and went to college (we are in Scotland so slightly different qualifications) done a entry to cooking course for year then done professional cookery course, they were not high qualification courses, she was then to do a higher course for a recognised qualification but was picked by a well known hotel to join them and be trained to their standard.

So at 22 she is a medium level chef, working her way up and she’s the only female chef!

My dd1 is a biological scientist and earns around 45k post her Masters degree.

Well I no longer feel sorry for teachers!

This must be an academy. I know of no teachers in that sort of money including very experienced. Schools don’t normally have that sort of budget.

age 20-25 now, incomes range from £8 to £50k/yr. None of them is a graduate (yet).

This sounds low - are none on upper pay scale or getting TLRs?

@greengreyblue Scotland. Five years qualified teacher earns £50589.

Son 22 Trainee Pilot in the RAF, salary before flying pay ~ £40k.

About £70k post qualification and then rank rises on top of that.

Did not go to university.

Fab non contributory pension scheme too!

DGS almost 21 has just finished his plumbers apprenticeship he is now earning £32k. Already been asked to go to another company for 10k more and better perks. No student debt

Why? He's probably worth every penny if he's good, believe me.

That’s a stinky attitude to have towards other career paths, hope you keep it to yourself, marketing a gym chain is supporting a brand that actively helps people get fit and change lives in a positive way.

My DS who’s 21 can pull in 30k working at Halfords flat out and could get to 50-60k if he wanted to carry on into full retail area management, he also has a degree in graphic design and can get 24-27k for his first salary and if he chooses to carry on can be a creative director London salary 80-100k+, but he’s joining Superyachts and will be pulling approx £2k a month tax free and within 2-3 years he could be looking at 6-7k tax free per month depending on the yacht, he’s starting at the bottom doing day work.

My advice to all youngsters is to be diverse, pot wash, retail, travel, do what you love, life is for fun and living, way to much emphasis on “careers”

DD is 24 did Law at uni then her LPC with masters. Secured a training contract (outside London) to start on 27k.
Good long term salary prospects!

Dh pays his employees (metal fabricators, no uni degrees) about £30k give or take a year, depending on seniority. They are all in their 20s and 30s.

When he started his graduate job after uni 13 years ago, he made £18k a year. He quit after a year, started his own company, and now makes over £100k a year. Similarly, I started out making probably £25k a year about the same time. My full time salary would be 55-60k now.

SIL works at a gym and probably makes about £30k, but she’s probably made not much less than that for many years, and as an instructor teaching mostly kids classes, I doubt she’ll make hugely more than that ever. There are jobs that have growth potential and there are jobs that don’t unfortunately.

This is an insane amount of pay for a teacher. Not all of us get paid anywhere near this amount and we are still brilliant teachers (said modestly!)

Not an academy.