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?

Close friend of mine started in teaching the same time as me, I work in consulting, we both started on the same sort of salary. Teacher (secondary) now our earns me (not by much!) but it surprised me as the narrative around teaching is that it’s always so poorly paid and overworked.
Have a look at the teaching leadership payscales in London, they're all available online, and you can be on these payscales without being a deputy/assistant head. You’ll also see the decent % annual payrises applied to all payscales which most in the private sector are not seeing at the moment.
As with any other career it is worth looking for the best place to work that will value you and reward you appropriately.
Perhaps we should do more to celebrate the work that teachers put in instead of bashing them online and feeding into this negative stereotype.

My mom has 3 of us in our early to mid 20s.

I earn 0k 😅 but I have just finished my degree and will be going on to train as a speech and language therapist when this baby is a couple of years old. So my starting salary will be around 30k however I am planning on hopefully only ever working around 3 days around my kids so I guess 18k by the time I’m late 20s.

My youngest brother (not even 20 yet) is on around 27k and my eldest brother (mid 20s) is on around 50k

DD graduated this year in Politics and IR she managed to find an internship paying London NMW with a media relations firm with a political focus. She has just been made permanent and is now on 33k best of all she has a foot in the door in an highly competitive industry with the ability to go much higher in a industry that she loves.

DD boyfriend did CS at Uni and he is on 55k as a new graduate.

It is so hard for many of them. As above DD did Politics and IR and I was seriously worried about her career prospects. She applied for 100s of grad roles and only got through to the final stages of one (IMPACT scheme 4.5k applicants). Got down to the last 100 and was rejected then went into second stage interviews and was rejected again - just brutal. She applied to a lot via the work for an MP website and got an interview for an internship managed to secure that. It is a matter of keep on chipping away with the applications but it can be demoralising for them and hard to keep the enthusiasm going but they only need one door to open. Good luck to your DD.

Are you trying to make the point that level of education doesn't necessarily equal a high salary? The question you are asking will get a massive range of responses from minimum wage to 50/60k plus. However it's so important that you look beyond the starting salary. What opportunities are there for progression? What transferable skills are they gaining? What other avenues could this lead them? What do they actually want? What would make them feel happy and fulfilled in life? Or is salary the only measure of success? I say this as the parent of a 25 yr old who has just started his own business. He's working so hard but income is low currently as he's just starting out. Younger brother is 23 and earning £40k in a graduate role. Both went to university, 23 yr old did masters but older brother didn't. They have different personalities and priorities. Oldest tried the corporate world and hated it. You couldn't pay him enough to put up with the culture of it. Younger son thrives in that environment so far. Will the self employed one out earn his brother one day? Maybe, maybe not but they are both happy and fulfilled in their own ways.

I’ve taken my teaching career pretty slow but 15 years in I’m a middle leader on £70k - still lots of career progression and options open to me. My boss is 35 and on about £100k. She’s making a good choice I’d say.

This is not a state primary school is it? Teacher at my school, 16 years and senior teacher on £45k. Small primary school Not me but a friend .