Do YOU earn over 40K? What do you do?

[MoneyBunny]

Obviously only for those of you comfortable with disclosing what you earn.

In another thread I could see a lot of posters saying it's no biggie earning over 40K, however this is just under me and my husband's JOINT income so it does feel like a very distant wage for us.

So, if you earn 40K, what do you o for a living? How many year's experience have you got and what is your education level?

And I do mean to pry.

Me: 44k, University Policy Manager, MA and 15 years relevant experience.

DH: 38k, Design Engineer, BSc and 10 years relevant experience.

I do almost I think, self employed property development and renting out property. Got that by working my ass off and borrowing heavily when my first husband left me and doing a HUGE amount of cash in hand cleaning jobs to raise a deposit (this was in the days when they gave money to anyone). I also do a bit of researching and writing for people in a very specialist field but not a lot nowadays. I have crap cses from school and a good degree from a so so uni (went as a grown up and paid for myself) - have not used it really, mine is all from hard graft/fear of losing everything and finding myself in a spot as a single parent.

quite a bit more, lawyer, LL.M.

Yes. I work in marketing in the city and earn about 40k. Not the most interesting of jobs but it's relatively stress free and pays the bills!

Comfortably more (just into six figures). Another lawyer, but working in a niche advisory area rather than transactional so I get to work sensible hours, four and a half days a week.

Oxbridge (non-law) degree, conversion course, Bar Vocational Course, subsequently qualifying in another jurisdition. Now nearly twenty years in, so experience counts for quite a lot.

yes I do
lecturer

Assistant Headteacher
BSc Hons
PCGE
11 years

20 years in specialist field, Bsc hons, 2 pgdips and an Msc .

Yes (although not by much). I'm a lecturer, with a PhD and about 4 years of (lecturing) experience.

Head of Fundraising for a large charity. BA (Hons) and prof qualification. 15 years experience in fundraising. It's a brilliant job, but lots of UK and European travel.

HE strategic planning manager

Just over 40k
Undergrad & postgrad degree + prof qualifications
15 years experience

Quite a lot more.
I'm a doctor.
2 degrees, 3 post-grad medical qualifications
Qualified 15 years ago, and now in the 'top job' for my particular career pathway (lots of time off for children etc).

I'm a chief sub editor on a glossy magazine in London. 12 years' experience. English degree. First salary straight out of university in 2000: £15.5k.

I earned £40k before being made redundant recently. BA, PGCE and MA plus lots of professional quals in management, project management etc. Started working at first company while in last year of undergrad degree and was promoted as soon as I graduated.

Charlotte I funded post-grad the same way I did my undergrad, by working through it! (approx 40 hours a week when doing my 3 year undergrad, 30 hours p/w when doing my f/t MA) Never had any financial help from family. PGCE attracted a bursary though thank God!

Am working p/t now earning less than half that (about £15k) but very happy with the work life balance after 12 years of hard graft!

Earn a bit over £40k, have a science based degree but work as a senior manager in a software/ IT department. Have no 'proper' IT qualifications whatsoever, but a personal interest in it and 10 years of experience. Started off at just over £20K, though.

(Not in London!)

Earn 3 times that
Accountant, 15 years experience, Chartered Accountancy took 3 years, MBA a further 3, working in central London and running finance team of 45 people.

First £40k job was I think about 10 years ago, was an auditor and had 5 years experience.

Was in HR. CIPD qualified. Now Director of a recruitment company.

Quite a bit more than that
Degree, MA, D.Phil from good university, totally unrelated to my career in IT Management
MSc in Business Systems - from so so university
25 years experience, spent years working very long hours, stressful environment.

Stopped working a while ago and am now poor but happy

Wibbly unless it is in a particularly in demand area of research, no one does a Ph.D for the money.

Head of Fundraising for a large charity. BA (Hons) and prof qualification. 15 years experience in fundraising. It's a brilliant job, with lots of UK and European travel

oooh that went on twice. Silly me

I earn just over 40k, and lucky enough to be in a good job that will add a fair bit to that in the next 5/6 years. I'm a marketing manager for a not for profit organisation that deals with healthcare.

I've got 5 GCSEs, a Certificate of higher education in Nursing (didn't finish my diploma due to realising I needed to change careers to look after my son) and current studying part time for a qualification in specific area of marketing. I've got 6 years experience.

Earn a multiple of £40k

Reasonable degree, MA, law conversion, LPC, then training contract. Qualified just before the age of 26, and have been working in tax ever since. I have 18 years PQE, and worked my way up to salaried partner. It's meant around 20 years of 50+ hours a week, every week though, with commuting on top.

Comfortably over even based on 4 days a week.
National Account Manager (sales basically!)
Been working for 23 years, 8 in this position
No qualifications above GCSE level

Yes, comfortably so before we emigrated (I'm a SAHM right now, but keen to get back to work early this year). I worked for a pharmaceutical market research company managing international projects, and overseeing a tram of people. I have an MA and started in he industry in 2000. I was earning £40K by 2003 when I was made head of dept. at my previous company. I'm 38.

DH is very comfortably so - we're no longer in the UK, but even taking the rate of exchange into account he is. He doesn't have a degree; 'only' an HND - he's worked in senior MR and marketing roles and currently works for a huge UK pharmaceutical company. So - no degree, but very good at what he does. He's 37.

My brother is a partner at one of the big City law firms. He was on a 6-figure salary at his previous firm, but was wooed to this one by the partnership offer and a doubling of salary. He has a law degree and a BA. He's 36.

My friends are in similar boats. I sometimes forget we live in a bit of a bubble and should stop and be grateful a bit more often. We're only on one salary at the moment and even though it's a good one, life is noticeably less 'easy', which I'm sure would be surprising for many people to get their heads round.

I have a university education in a vocational subject, topical!

I have been working as a PA since leaving uni, so over ten years, and earn over £40k, quite a bit, plus a bonus of about 20% of annual salary per year, I have to state I'm a lot lower paid than most friends, its a micro climate in London because if I worked regional i would be lucky to earn £20k max, and when compared to family who work damn hard for a fraction, its humbling