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

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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?

This is absolutely not the norm though.

I might be biased but yes he is! His school obviously think so too 😀

Or perhaps she was the best candidate for the job?

Is it a very large school? Lots of headteachers aren't on that much. Are all the heads of year paid 70k? I can't imagine a school being able to afford it. What about the deputies and the heads?

I'm all for teachers being highly educated. The dc had secondary school teachers who had masters. We had a chemistry teacher/headmistress who was a doctor of chemistry. That would horrify many mumsnetters who would see her as having done the doctorate to procrastinate and it being a waste of time/not needed. In fact a lot of mumsnetters seem scornful of any higher education.

i think there are around 1800 students.
My son has 2 TLRs so I assume that’s why his salary is slightly higher.

DGD’s O-levels were certainly good enough for her to continue with A-levels, and then be shoe-horned into a university from where she would emerge with a large debt. However she chose to do an accountancy course at our local college.

She therefore has a fairly basic accountancy qualification, but last summer aged 18, was offered £25,000 for her first job.

She also works as a companion to an elderly lady for 9 hours a week in evenings and gets paid minimum wage plus for that.

She divides her time between her DM and DDad and pays no rent or board. Consequently she has well over £32,000 saved up and invested plus some gold bullion which is kept in our safe. We are pleased with her thriftiness and hope that she will climb up the career ladder.

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Well I no longer feel sorry for teachers!

Please don't think that is any way typical!

I've been teaching nearly 30 years and am on top of the upper pay scale at about £49k. No TLRs or other payments in many primaries.

That is what I would expect. I’m a HLTA in a small primary and that fits with my experience( not that we all discuss salaries) but the amount on here earning in excess of £50k is eye opening.

Not anymore. Those days are long gone.

Perfomance related pay means they can keep you where they want indefinitely (and they never err on the side of giving the teacher more money).

DS is 22.

Dropped out of uni is currently a trainee chef on around 25k.

He’s much less stressed and enjoying the work.

That’s enough for me.

He was very anxious as a student.

70k is much much more than slightly higher

My DN starts a graduate role in UX design in a few weeks. She did a placement with the company and they offered her the role before she went back to uni for her final year. She starts on £35k with opportunities to progress and take on bigger projects.

DS age 20 - £26k no uni, on an apprenticeship. DD age 24 - £48k no uni, in fashion not retail.

For reference NMW on 40 hours works out just over £25k. So I would expect anyone working those hours to earn that, minimum.

It's painful enough paying hundreds of pounds a month even if your master's WAS needed to get your job - I don't know how I'd feel about doing it when it is just something you're studying for interest!

School students often think that the only way you can learn about a topic is by studying it in an official degree, usually immediately after leaving school. It's really not the case. I'm interested in so many topics and have done adult evening classes, gone to public lectures and meetups, read non-fiction books, had discussions with interesting people who know the topic over dinner/wine/beers...

When I was 18 I thought things like adult learning were for semi-literate people to get their GCSEs and/or some lower-tier trade qualification and it was a graduate degree or nothing. Not the case.

DS3, 24 30k, DS2,27,55k

Sorry to hear that, but definitely not the case in our experience.

Hi,

Can I ask how your son got into this role? My daughter is interested in doing that exact job in the future.

@HighlandCowLover2 Although DS does have a degree (not in digital forensics) he applied for an entry level post as he had an interest in this work (my DH is a retired DCI who worked on the Major Crime Unit so possibly the interest came from there). DS saw an advert on our local police force’s website so worth your daughter checking there. The department DS works in looks at computers, hard drives etc. It is definitely not for the faint hearted and more admin than he was expecting due to preparing exhibits for court. He loves his job but it is not a job for everyone and does require a lot of resilience for obvious reasons.

Edited to add that DS has always been very “techie” and a bit of a nerd. He did computing as one of his A levels and has always built his own computers etc. No idea if that had any bearing o him getting the job though!

36k

£35k

Yeah. It takes a real genius to be "thrifty" when someone else is paying for your accommodation, food and utility bills. 🙄 I'm sure in a year or two she can do an article for the Daily Telegraph about how clever she's been to save up for a deposit on her first home.

BTW, I think you'll find she did GCSEs. The last cohort to sit O levels are now 54 years old and one might hope that they were not still living at home sponging off their parents!

Well said .

Wow. I’m 37, been teaching 13 years and am only on £50k.