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To ask you all how much you get paid?

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UnderWorkedOverPaid · 20/02/2011 11:36

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)

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80sMum · 20/02/2011 16:37

I work full-time as an invoicing clerk/facilities manager/admin assistant etc etc. Job is officially 37.5 hours a week but I almost always work about 45-50 hours/week. Not paid for any overtime. Salary £21k.

CityGirls · 20/02/2011 16:40

Recently, at the office, I accidently caught sight of a document stating various colleague's salaries and upcoming bonuses/payrises they would be getting. It was an eye opener I can tell you. I work in the private sector and we're expected not to discuss salaries with each other. I now know why!!! As one other poster stated, this is why we have such inequality between male and female salaries.

clevernamechange · 20/02/2011 16:42

Hospital Doctor 4 yrs after graduation.
About 48k before tax.
Average 50-60 hrs per week not including on-calls. Work roughly 1:4 weekends.

Husband earns roughly 25k with a 48hr week (police).

Wouldn't change my job at all :)

LadyAlex · 20/02/2011 16:43

Senior Social Worker
£31,000
37hrs per week, 6yrs qualified. middle england.
Love my job.

Georgimama · 20/02/2011 16:45

I'm a NQ solicitor in a high street firm. I earn £31K gross + 20% of my billings over target. I will probably narrowly miss bonus this year ( which is expected in first year PQE because it takes time to build up the bilings) but looking at how most of my colleagues at 2-3 years PQE do, I can expect about £3K-£5K per annum gross in bonus in a year or two. I work 7 hours per week and never work late, never take work home.

Georgimama · 20/02/2011 16:46

7 hours? I wish! 37 hours per week.

MooMooFarm · 20/02/2011 16:49

I only work 18 hrs a week (in admin, yawn). My take home pay is about £850 per week.

MooMooFarm · 20/02/2011 16:50

Oops! I meant per month! Wishful thinking there!

gallicgirl · 20/02/2011 16:57

It's fun to see what job I would prefer to be paid for Grin

Looks like even people who I consider very well paid still find they struggle to pay the bills.

Worked in local government for 13 years, supervisory role and earn £23000 pa for a 37 hour week. I think I'm reasonable well paid for what I do but certainly not overpaid.
DP works in retail and earns about the same as I do but has far more responsibility and frequently works over his 40 hour per week contract. I wouldn't swap jobs with him at all.

Abr1de · 20/02/2011 17:00

'We all work hard, FFS'

Some do work harder than others. I know lots of women who work harder than me, especially as they get up at 5.20am to commute nearly two hours to London. I don't have to do that. They deserve their extra pay.

MrsCreamcake · 20/02/2011 17:00

Myself and Dp manage a pub for a well known pub company

Last year pub made £1.4 million in sales, of this £330,000 was profit

Between us we work 90+ hours a week

Our joint salary is around £45,000

Hours unsocial, pay is appalling, treated like crap by the company

Really need to get out of this business!!

taxfree · 20/02/2011 17:03

Name changed
I don't earn anything.
Dh earns £400k (dependant on currency conversion rates)

Tax free (not in UK obv)

VivaLeBeaver · 20/02/2011 17:05

I clear about £1350 a month after tax. Thats for a 30 hour week as a midwife and includes unsocial shift payments. No idea what that equates to in an annual salary.

redfairy · 20/02/2011 17:14

academic library assistant 10k 22 hrs p/wk

GMajor7 · 20/02/2011 17:19

Darn it! No post from Xenia Grin

moaningminniewhingesagain · 20/02/2011 17:20

Take home about £1350/month after deductions. Doing 3 days a week/0.6 WTE includes weekend/evening work. HCP been qualified 10 yrs.

LaWeasel · 20/02/2011 17:27

Abr1de - your pay is unfortunately not an indicator of how hard you work. When I got up at 5.30 and tumbled into bed exhusted at the end of the day it was for minimum wage, with regular overtime that I didn't get paid for at all.

But I got 50% more as an office temp in a piss easy job where I had to keep creating tasks because even the Internet got boring.

I'm not saying people that earn huge wages necessarily don't deserve them, just that it isn't true to say x person earns more than y, x works harder than y and deserves the extra money.

I definately worked harder at the first job than my second.

curiositycat · 20/02/2011 17:30

I earn £130-£140 k depending on profit as a junior partner in a law firm. On average I work 45 hours ish a week but in the past worked much harder and longer hours. I'm lucky as I am good at what I do and its not that hard as such, having been doing it for 14 years. I also live outside london and walk to work.

My DH on the other hand earns about 40k with basic and other bits and pieces.

phooey · 20/02/2011 17:33

44k as head of subject in a secondary school in Outer London.

Easy to earn 40k ish if you take on a bit of responsibility in education, in secondary and in London at least.

I hate my job witha passion though - love the kids, detest the infantile politics. Leaving as soon as I can get myself knocked up.

shesparkles · 20/02/2011 17:36

18k for 24 hour week in public sector. It'd be a lot less if it weren't for the shift allowances I get (only do late and night shifts) and a lot of weekends.
Not everyone's ideal working hours, but works for me and the family and I consider myself fortunate that I love my job. :)

QOD · 20/02/2011 17:37

I work 20 hours a week and around £14k

coco2901 · 20/02/2011 17:39

approx £70k pa at the moment (£30k basic + commission) I have a company car too...quite happy with that given that I'm only 24.

Georgimama · 20/02/2011 17:39

Out of sheer nosiness, are you salaried or equity, curiosity?

Georgimama · 20/02/2011 17:40

Xenia owns her own law firm; you can take it as read that she earns quite a lot.

NoSuchThingAsSociety · 20/02/2011 17:43

Around £85k, give or take, as a management consultant.