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

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Just being nosey!

weegiemum, what a great charity.

Broadcast journalist, working 2 days a week, take home £730 a month

Self employed storyteller; since I started trading in October, £30 (minus materials). On the plus side, I have gigs in the pipeline so next year will be a lot more profitable.

Can I just say to the doctors and spouses of doctors here that medicine is a classic "jam tomorrow" job?

For years you earn less than your cleaner. (A cleaner earning £10 per hour cash in hand, as they do in London, is earning some £10k more than a FG doctor annually even before any benefits and tax credits are taken into account).

Bit by bit your salary creeps up and you realise the benefits and pension contribution (which aren't as good as they used to be but still better than anything enjoyed by 90% of the population) add a very substantial unseen element to your compensation.

Eventually you become a consultant or GP Principal and find yourself earning £100k a year for working 5 mornings a week. There aren't many jobs offering that kind of financial trajectory that also throw in a very good pension and superb job satisfaction.

Trainee actuary (Most junior level, still 3 years to go before qualified roughly) - £32.5k

Our Consultants definitely don't do 5 mornings a week 21march - resident on call til 8pm, at weekends and within 5 years it will be resident on call for nights too. I am definitely in the wrong specialty!

I love my job, wouldn't change it for the world, but I wouldn't go in to medicine for the money. My newly qualified solicitor sister earns considerably more, with much shorter training, and no nights/weekends.

Paediatric oncologist (research mainly)- £48,000 is the equivalent (I get paid in dollars, on USA) but I work quite long hours and do a lot of work analysing, grouping etc; research at home, and five days a week. To be able to keep my job, I had to move continents! I'm very, very, very lucky.

Oh yes, 21march. not great at the start at all, but when you get higher, you get paid more. Unless you're really, really stupid like me and go into medical research [sigh]

I agree with you that different specialties will put you in different income brackets, Vinegar. Always been the case, the powers that be use it as social engineerings. It's not fair but overall so much fairer than other industries.

Don't be envious of your sister, your lifetime earnings (including pension and perks) will match or exceed your sister's. Women rarely make equity partner at Magic Circle firms .

sahm - zero - (but best job in the world in my opinion!)

I used to be a Senior Nursery Nurse in a private day nursery.
With a BA in Early Years, my salary hit the lofty heights of £6.40 an hour. Working 2-4 days a week, I almost paid tax!

A cleaner I earn £78 a week I only work 10 hrs

Interesting, 21march, never thought of it like that. I guess there is a significant difference in potential for additional PP income in different specialties (although I wouldn't consider PP anyway, what with being a lentil-weaving lefty), as well as a big difference in what being on call as a Consultant actually entails (ours are called in more often than not at night, then obviously work a full day).

I totally agree national payscales make things a lot fairer than in many private firms. I know that I earn pro rata the same as any other Dr working in an intense specialty for the same number of years post-qualification anywhere in the UK, regardless of gender, race, religion, educational background etc.

I earn around £10,000 and work 14 hours a week, can be more than this depending on how much extra shifts I do. (Nurse)

HCA - i am a trained nurse but have lapsed my registration for a year due to ill health - the drop in pay is huge.

As a Staff Nurse i was on £26K.

Now as an HCA (Health Care Assistant) i'm on £17K pro rata but only take home approx £700 a month due to only being well enough to work 2 days a week.

Luckily i can get DLA, council tax benefit, a free disabled bus pass, free prescriptions (i take 8 types of medications a day) & Working Tax Credits but not HB as i have a mortgage.

But the Benefits don't add up to much - i've been told i'd be much better off on full-time benefits; rather than working.

I prefer to work though & enjoy my job - I hope to increase my hours when i'm well enough & to go back to being a Staff Nurse in a year.

I work 14 hours a week as a specialist careers adviser and earn about £12,000.

PR, not senior level, £32K pro rata.

Solicitor in regional firm. £80k currently.

Journalist. £13.5k for FT work. I love my job, I hate the pay - it is very low for this line of work but there are other benefits to this particular job (and as I say, I love it) so I stick with it. I can earn more doing freelance bits and pieces but at the moment I just don't have time to think about pitching for freelance work.

Agree completey with earlyinthemorning's post

SAHM - sweet FA and very little appreciation

Vinegar - she won't be able to keep up the no nights/weekends for long, don't worry!

What level are you virgil?
Said mine further up.
talking of procurement, My DP is a procurement manager for a hospital in the NHS. he earns £40k and is at the top if his scale and it froze a few years ago. Quite a lot of pressure but he sticks to his contracted hours as much as possible. He gets good holiday and pension compared to private sector.

I think I need to retrain!
Working as a software engineer at a university with 14years experience, 37hr week for less than £20k.

Business Analyst in public sector- around £31k