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

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Just being nosey!

Business development manager, 9-5 hours, 38k
Dh in social work, graduate, 20 years experience, round the clock hours with violent abusive teenagers care - £21k!

I'm a solicitor in small non London city. Not city practice earn £96 k 4 days per week plus bonus. Earns circa £150 k when ft, but have sn child so cut back a bit. Still accept I earn a lot for what is largely a 9- 6 ish job for those 4 days. Immensely flexible, very much up to me how to manage the workload so long as I do. I'm 15 years pqe

Until last Dec - civil servant £70k. Now looking to start up on business. terrified.

£130k as Partner in law firm qualified as solicitor for 15 years. Also all car maintenance/running costs paid, mobile, home phone etc. My firm has 4 offices in average sized towns.

Researcher for a firm of headhunters, leading a small team. Some flexibility on where I work but a lot less on how many hours! I'm afraid I'm one of those mums who is on work calls while cooking the evening meal and supervising the homework and I admit that I hate that. Earn £56K + £12K bonus.

I too am surprised how low some of these salaries are. It's easy in my job to think most people earn £100K plus (our minimum salary level on a search) so this is a good reality check.

IT project manager 57k - interesting job with lots of laughs - got to love geeks!

Bus driver in London on about 28k I think. Never really worked it out.Sometimes I work 40 hrs a week sometimes 56. All depends what shifts I do and whether I work weekends.

Clinical psychologist. Would be £43k if I was full-time.

eslteacher international.

Other than the sahms, shop workers and nursery nurses I think I'm the lowest paid person. Live in Cardiff so not even in a cheap area :(

Carer, earn nothing.

Thanks dashoflime. I've been wanting to get into it for a few years. just trying to find a way that doesn't involve me having to give up my job to train. my boss says itwwould be a conflict

Nanny 3 days a week.. Take home £1800 a month

earnings are relative - for me the money i earn is not worth the very real risks i take in doing the job.

so i would rather be happy and earning min wage than in a constant state of anxiety that im in to do my job for the take home i end up with. on paper my wage looks ok at 27k - but in reality i lose so much of it it ends up at around 22k and then i lose nearly 4k on petrol, so i figure i could do a local job that is safe and keeps normal hours for around the same. im looking.

Thanks dashoflime, I've been wanting to get into it for a while. I just need to find a way that doesn't involve me giving up my job in the meantime to train. My boss says it would be a conflict of interest to volunteer with cab while working in my current job. I work for the local authority too and speak to some excellent welfare rights staff daily and would love to do it, I think I'd be good at it too.

Scientist with PhD, >10y post doc experience, manager in pharmaceutical industry. Equivalent of 43K FT.

Architect, was on £27k when got pregnant and strongly encouraged (ahem) to take voluntary redundancy. This after 2 degrees + 1 years pro qualification/8 years training overall. Anything from 40-60hr week.

Am now sahm although doing property development on the side which varies massively and starting my own practice which so far pays £0 as only fee to date has gone on PI and obligatory membership of professional bodies.

My favourite line is when people say "you're an architect? Doesn't that take longer than medicine? Still at least you make loads at the end of it". Hollow laugh-although I do appreciate there are lower paid jobs.

The irony is architects are mostly vocational and train out of belief in the job, and then get a rude awakening in real life practice (as a lot of vocational people do these days.)

I'm an Environmental Consultant.

I earned 16k (pounds) straight out of Uni, going up to 18k (pounds) after 4 years, just before being made redundant.

I now live in Australia and earn the equivalent of 36k (pounds) with no additional experience (they didn't want to count raising two kids as relevant experience ).

Solicitor in 10 partner firm in a mid-sized town earning £40k for four days a week worked in a compressed schedule. Earned a lot more pro rata when I was younger, working in London, but this job is relatively low stress and very compatible with kids.

DH earns twice what I do, working in a fairly stressful job in IT.

Someone once told me that opticians earn a lot relative to their qualifications and that the job is pretty stress free, secure and offers good hours. Wonder if that's true.

I'm an Information Specialist (qualified librarian) in a charity library and earn £30k for 35 hours.

Genuinely surprised at the figures quoted in this very interesting thread - I tend to think I'm pretty hard done by in terms of salary but seems like I'm pretty lucky really.

Hugandroll I still earn the least! £30 for 5 months' work (although I have got a cheque for £95 in the post for work I'm doing on Saturday). Storytelling is not lucrative!

Personal Assistant 42,000 pounds + lots of jollies.

Artist - it's varies as self employed, but I've probably earnt of average 16k a year the last decade. That's usually between £150/250 day rate or £25 an hour. it's sporadic, part time and can be feast and famine. I also work p/t as a care assistant to make sure famine never bites too hard, 10hours a week for £500 a month.

Scientist £112k

should have said, that's before tax.