To ask you all how much you get paid?

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Name-Change if you want to - I have. AIBU to be curious what other people earn?

I am a nurse. Qualified 6 years. Work 30 hours a week.

I earn about 25k (with unsocial hours etc added in)

Another way of doing it might be to bring in the first contract on the books through your HEI's business office or whatever they call it, with an overhead for the institution, and get released from one or two other tasks to cary out the work. They might like this because it's extra income in a time of cutbacks. Then use the contacts you make from that to start building up a potential portfolio of private work.

namechange.
This thread is an eye-opener - thanks OP - very enlightening.
I work in sales/customer relationship management for a company for many years and when DC2 started school negotiated term-time working only, which thankfully technology facilitated - ie I can be available in school hols via mobile/blackberry, but means I can be with DC, do not need childcare cover in school hols etc.
Was revolutionary to my company, very male-dominated culture etc, but they agreed to trial period, agreed that it worked well and still in place years later. have a pro-rata salry for the school hols. Also work mostly from home, and mostly control my own timetable, so can take DC to school/collect/sports days/assemblies etc can do which is invaluable to me.
Earnings have been between 87-112k pa since tt arrangement began - plus car, phone, broadband, free (taxed) petrol etc.
Job not intellectually challenging, but mostly enjoyable, and even tho I dislike my boss, can see I am very fortunate.
As to advising the DC - DH runs his own business, always has, and we have always encouraged the DC to think of that as their path as the best way to have freedom, job satsifaction and best chance of having a good income. Would hate to see them miserable working for a rubbish boss, and have seen very few really good bosses in the many companies I have worked with. Luckily, they both seem to be very much into engineering/problem solving/DT etc and as we don't know what the world will be like when they are adults, I think those skills likely to be the most flexible to have.

Namechanged too. I earn noticeably over £200k (including bonus and benefits) as a senior (non-partner) professional in the City. At present I also earn more than most if not all of the men at my level and my DH (but his pay is very performance related so if he does well he might earn more than me). But if the work is there I may well be working till midnight (or midnight the next day) and I have an hour plus commute. It's not easy to balance with a DC.

what was your degree in hiding?? Need to advise my kids ( not a joke btw!! )

I use to earn 41k as a Senior Nurse, working 48hrs a week, but now earn 22k on a term time only contract working 37.5hrs per week, am loving the balance with home life and all the holidays of course.

i wamt some of your jobs- bloody hell i neverf imagined normal prople had some of these earnings- very interesing post thoug h- thanks op

Yes, I think it's good for women to see what some other women can earn. Too many people just think okay I'll earn about £20k. They don't realise women are out there earning £200k and plenty a huge lot more. It is not necessarily that much harder to earn £200k than £20k.

I suppose it is easier if you get very good A levels, a good degree from a decent place and pick a career where earnings can be high and harder if you leave school with a few bad GCSEs but even some who started on relatively low sums on this thread have changed career and earned more (if it matters to people at all what they earn - plenty are very happy earning nothing). I have been surprised my a few of the senior nurse salaries compared with the leading UK academics.

I suspect many who work for themselves with their own businesss can earn more. I certainly earned more many years ago when I moved from being an employee to eating only what I kill.

i have good a levels and a degree and still earn a pittance lil

And other people aren't all about the money.

And other people aren't all about the money.

Which is all very well and good providing they can provide for themselves.
My DD's make me laugh sometimes when they announce they are going to run a cafe, be a florist that sort of thing but they want to live in a house as big as the one they are currently in, they want their children to go to their school and have lots of holidays.
It's only fair I think to point out none of that will happen unless you are a florist to the royal household.

Probably get flamed. Up until today I got 195k plus bonus c50k. Started 7am, finish 10pm (when I finished.) Worked 2 / 5 weekends.

Resigned today because at the end of the day it wasn't worth not seeing my kids.

Feeling great and terrified. But know I've done the right thing (until DH gets laid off next week.)

it does depend on your mindset Xenia I left school with 4 rubbish gcse's and a rubbish A level. Started work earning £4,000pa. 20 years ago. Did all my qualifications (ILEX, Law Degree and LPC) while in fulltime work and earned £90k before the recession hit. Am now back at £45k in a job where I will hopefully be a director/shareholder in a good sized Commercial Agency/management firm in the next 2/3 years, and hope my take home will soon exceed £100k. You need to have decent qualifications and a drive to succeed (not to mention the opportunity to take full advantage of both)

I will never be up there with the £500k plus earners, but I am happy with that. All I want is a 5 bed house with a pool and enough money to do what I want. £100k should see to that Plus DH's wage of £50k of course.

i think xenia is right

Band 6 nhs Dietitian full time would be £ 31 k but now do 0.6 wte. Decent milage rate for travel. Been qualified nearly 8 years. Luckily I have three more increments to reach top of my pay scale but otherwise subject to public sector pay freeze.

Probably get flamed.

No not at all, but if you could email me your bosses contact details, i'd be willing to have a go at your old job for a while

"Yes, I think it's good for women to see what some other women can earn. Too many people just think okay I'll earn about £20k"

not everyoone (male or female) can earn £200k - who would do the shitty low paid jobs?

Not everyone wants shedloads of money. I mean, of course, if someone offered me shedloads of money I would probably take it but for many people having money and things and a certain kind of lifestyle is just not a priority.

what I mean is, the vast majority of people don't lead lives led by 'want want want' but are happier to live lives according to what they need.

Luckily DF I have the lifestyle I want and also shedloads enough money!

Oh dear - classy

"Yes, I think it's good for women to see what some other women can earn. Too many people just think okay I'll earn about £20k"

Yeah. That's why people earn low wages. They just haven't got the right mindset. Do you sell pyramid schemes by any chance?

This thread has been very revealing- I just assumed all docs and lawyers make a small fortune. That is such a suprise_ i often say to my friend how we should have got our heads down at 16 and done medicine and now we would be lsecure but it does not seem to be much more than i earnt in middle management in teaching which was the best job for half the year and the most intense consuming job for the other 6 months.

Now I am a sahm and I cannot believe how happy, not working in education makes me.The thing is I taught amazing students who thanked me frequently but teachibg is such an intense job if you put the effort in that the rest of life gets squeezed out. But I now realise it was pretty well paid.

I think if you're comfortable and have a work-life balance then earning 20K is just fine and dandy

I probably feel more sorry for the time poor rich bollocks who live to work and don't get any of the other slower parts of life

I will admit it easy for me to say that because my salary does not go on any necessities in our lives but on luxuries and fripperies

Blimey a lot of people earn serious money here, but then we knew that because that is what makes the average wage a lot higher that what I and my friends earn.

Between my dh and I we earn a lot less than people on here [some people] but we own our own house [18 mths then paid for] have what we want, go on hols, got a nice car..................what more is there to have?

Ok I could have a bigger house [don't need one] or newer car [don't need one] but the most important thing to me is being home with the family.

I work part time and I'm out the door at end of shift.........i enjoy my job but would not be wanting to work til midnight to get contracts sorted or if a big deal was on miss sitting down for a meal all together.

I am sure the kids of people earning huge amounts love the things money can buy [but prob think that everyone has it] but would they honestly rather have mum at home a bit more or the new wii game, or holiday to south of france when mum is on the phone or laptop keeping up with work stuff?

BUT

I will not be lying on my deathbed thinking oooooo i wish i spent more time in the office. I will be glad i spent quality and lots of time with the family.

And please don't flame me and say you do spend time with the family, because if you are working 40 plus hours a week you are simply not. Because you cannot be in two places at once.

5.95 ph depends on how many hours I do, I am contracted for 9 a week, so it something like 215 pm just for my hours, but I work more of of course. it's a sales assistant job

I started second job on monday, I am earning there 5.93 ph
it' a nursery assistant position

It's a balance. When I'm diong work for people I think I earn about a week's minimum wage an hour so it's not true that the higher earners see little of their children and have an awful life with is 100% work. In fact surely if it takes X (the poster above actually) 40 hours to earn what I earn in an hour my children don't suffer because of my earning what I do.

Obviously it's not as simple as that but it's not so simple as very high salary awful horrible work and never see your family, very low wage = lovely family life.

Mindset does matter too. The fact I had reasonable exam results obviously helped, picked work which tends to be well paid in my teens and concentrated on that for 25 years matters, so even do silly things like I don't look too bad (people who look good earn more - ridiculous but apparently true studies show and I weigh 9 stone).

But perhaps more than anything I have always enjoyed life (not just work, I adored breastfeeding, love being pregnant, had 5 gorgeous children, love singing, etc etc ) and the work too and that makes a big difference and I also work very hard (as do plenty of people on the minimum wage and indeed some housewives (not all)) and I suppose I constantly like to think about little schemes and plans for extra work/money fro fun as much as money. Many fail but some don't. I kind of expect they will all work because of a huge internal optimism and if it goes wrong as it often does, I just pick myself up and have another go at something else. It's a kind of self belief I suppose.