To ask your occupation and how much you earn....

[Cannierelax]

Just being nosey!

ideally like to go back at some stage

It's interesting to that people are shocked at how little doctors earn. I find it irritating in real life when people assume that we are very well off because of what they have read in the tabloids. It's all government propaganda in order to gain public support to beat GPs and other doctors with a stick.

Don't get me wrong, Medicine can be extremely rewarding but if I had wanted to earn a huge salary, I would have done a totally different degree.

Scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, £26k.

Balroy - have a 2.1 BA Early Years Care and Education,as a lot of nursery staff do nowadays.Many have post graduate qualifications such as the Early Years Professional Status.However even with thoa qualifications and being the assistant manager/manager of a nursery in a very deprived area with lots of social services most staff only get 6.70 to 7.50 an hour.

All staff have to do Learning Journeys at home, and take home resources to make.Wevhave to do comprehensive plans,show each childs development etc.

Additionally we have ome in and do anything else the nursery needs unpaid such as courses,training,meetings,sorting out the buildinh on a saturday etc and they only get 6.19 an hour for it.

Also balroy Elizabeth Truss stated with english,maths,science gcse,a degree and a post graduate qualification that nursery staff will reach the dizzy heights of 16k

Fergus, think would out me so will just say it is s trading firm but not an ibank. Sorry to be vague. Slowly I do think some larger firms are waking up to the need to retain talented women (some of whom are also mothers!) and figuring out how best to manage this. We're you a trader or more of a hmm financial roe (iykwim) which might exist in a large multinational firm aswell as banking? I find they can be the most fwd thinking as profit streams are more diverse and not just trading based.

Doctors don't get poor money and you'd be hard pushed to find one who worked full time who got £30k. Maybe on paper their basic wage would start at that but they get paid a lot of additional money for working unsociable hours, I know a good few GPs who work 3.5 day weeks (7 sessions) and get paid at least 60k. When you consider that doctors can become GPs in their late 20's I don't think that's too bad a deal.
Those partnered GPs will be earning way in excess of this amount with bonus payments for surgery uptake of vaccines and monitoring and recording of measurables such as blood pressure.
Whilst its true that hospital doctors earn less even as consultants, once they are a consultant the opportunity to make lots of money increases massively, from private practice to paid speaker engagements, I'd be very surprised if they too don't bring home at least 100k.
They've trained hard, I think they deserve it (well maybe not so much the GPs), but I do hate it when they try and make you feel they're not well paid for the job they do.
Unless you're in banking or another city job the most people aren't on the best wage 6 years post qualification.
I'm more outraged at how low the carer's allowance is tbh, £58/week sounds a whole lot worse than 30k for 3 days.
Remember that doctors chose to do the job and they're bright enough to realise all the benefits that profession entails (I'd love to have been a doctor fwiw) and that includes more than the financial benefits, job satisfaction and a career that travels well and lasts until retirement.

I am a registered pharmacy technician and earn around 27,000 a year.

Social Worker - 42K (South East) Love my job.

Coraltoes, im in equity research. Loved job, too much with kids. Wish there was more pt, freelance, homeworking possible, but just dont see how that would work with this environment.

Hi Chest. Didn't mean to start a bun fight as like I said, I do think that nursery nurses are underpaid. However, unlike teaching, you do not have to hold a degree to do the job IYSWIM. I stand corrected on the 'home work' issue I think, although I do chat to my DD's nursery nurses quite a bit about how they're enjoying their careers (I used to teach them, so not as wierd as it sounds!) and they're certainly not taking work home with them. I guess it is different though at management level. Anyway, like many other posters have said- good job we're not in it for the money! Hope you enjoy your career too.

28k, set up work placements for the long term unemployed. I really enjoy it and it's really family friendly.

FT nurse, 37.5 hours a week, never finish on time, far too many lates, nights and weekends to bear thinking about, plus a few extra shifts each month, around 25k. Would love to go PT but can't afford to yet.
Today I didn't drink a drop of water for 5 hours and finally managed to get lunch 7 hours into my 13 hour shift.
No-one nurses for the money

CTO of an IT company £130K,plus 25% bonus, Petrol card, car allowance.

I could never do a job where people's lives/well being were my responsibility.

If I fuck up people are annoyed and there is extra paperwork.

People with more responsibility should be paid more, they won't be though as many of those jobs attract people who do it because they want to/have a calling.

Is a bit of a catch 22.

coraltoes thanks it's great to know that the big firms are realising the potential of women in the workplace. Sounds like you have a great balance.

that should say the potential of keeping women in the workplace!

Balroy -Sorry I was talking about the new Early Years Teacher role thay is being brought in by the government.Nursery staff will need a postgraduate qualification and they will only earn 16k.

Also all nursery staff I have ever met have to take work hlme such as Learning Journeys otherwise how would they get completed? Always thought that was standard practice as well as attending any training,courses or meetings for no additonal pay.Its wrote in to a lot of nursery nurses contracts.

I do agree that nursery nurses should be paid more, but they're not on a par with teachers workload wise.

I have BA Primary Education QTS and EYFS was myN specialism, and there is quite a difference.
I was advised in the beginning by other teachers to stick with KS1 or foundation stage whilst I had small children because the workload is easier the younger the children you teach.
Observations on 2-4 year olds are a lot easier and less time consuming than say marking year 6 comprehension or writing assessments.
I imagine it kind of boils down to the individual too - I've got friends who find teaching older children much easier than the younger ones.

From my experience, nursery days are much easier to handle too being split into the 2 sessions.
There is a lot of paperwork though - more than people think I agree.

I think nursery nurses deserve more than £6 odd pound an hour

Retail part time so just under £6k a year, DH earns about the same.

Sleepingsatellite- Yes split in to two sessions would be very easy but most nursery staff do 8-6 for 51 weeks of year.

Well a few nursery nurses have replied to this thread saying they're on minimum wage of £6.19 for a 40 hour week, that works out at £12.8k

Also between my childs reception class and what our nursery does there isnt really that much difference except about a third of the pay.

Ah! I guess Early Years 'Teacher' posts should attract a teacher's payscale then. Fair enough. Gov' obviously doesn't think so- what do they know eh?!

politician

i only earn 65 k but i make a fucking fortune in expenses - around 200k - i get a house in london, all my travel paid for and everything - i even get my lunch paid for.

when ive finished with this shit, im going to use the connections i made whilst i was having that free lunch - and get paid hundreds of thousands as a consultant

whopper!