High Earners you or partner, what job do you/they do?!

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On the back of the high income thread please share….. what jobs do you all do for high incomes eg….. one salary over 60k yearly?

nb. We are middle income bracket, both working plus two kids

Prior to my retirement I earned 83k working as a head of operations in the NHS, North of England so it went further than living in the South. It never felt like a lot because I was bringing 3 kids up alone with no help from useless ex and they all went to university.

DH - own business engineering/architecture
me - HR/Finance

Weird post. She didn’t say that. And it is entirely possible in corporate / commercial law and finance to do 20 hour days. Not day in day out but more regularly than one would like.

I read the post as making clear that those sort of salaries don’t come with luck and that often there is a lot of sacrifice and frankly I thank her and her husband for their tax contribution to society.

I’m a mid level lawyer (in my 40’s but took 5 years out with my kids) - around 200k last year. Regularly work 14-15 hour days.

I sid a law conversion course in my 20s part time while working in tech as I was bedazzled by the high salaries, but after a couple of those 2 week intern things I realised that I would be working double the hours I do for double the pay and went back to marketing. It's hard graft if you want the big bucks in law. I know a few lawyers and they've all suffered with mental health and/or burnout.