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

[Cannierelax]

Just being nosey!

Freelance writer, I earn £350/day when working which is hardly ever cos of new baby. The rest of the time, I earn nowt.

Programme Manager, financial services (insurance), software projects. £85k plus bonus/perks.

That sounds like a lot now that I've written it down, but I have two (relevant to my job) degrees, professional qualifications, nearly 19 years of industry experience, a scary (and increasing) amount of staff under me, and the programme I'm currently the primary on is valued at just under £18m. Which I'm pretty much accountable for delivering on time, on budget, and to the specified quality.

My New Year resolution was to get my weekly hours down to sixty-something, and so far I'm failing.

I am also our household's primary breadwinner, as DH is part-time, to account for the hours I have to be available (works part time, local council).

Work in a call centre role, £36,000

At the moment I'm a carer, earning £58 a week. If I wasn't doing that, I'd be a nursery nurse earning minimum wage or just over.

Billy yup, you've got to put in lot of loooong hours to get over 70k, but the good thing is you can be pretty sure you'll get there in the end....

Account director, basic £58K, in a good year £88k bad year £58k. Hours worked outside of 38 per week = too many. Hours spent on the m25 = too many

Dentist, qualified 8 years and I earn 60k before tax

I'm a SAHM, but was a nursery nurse before which was 9 years ago. I've got NVQ level 3 in Playwork and the same in Early Years Care and Education and earned the grand total of £66 for a 30 hour week.

Teacher's pay scales in England and Wales Been frozen for years too!

I'm a spy. But tell NOBODY!
I earn many, many pounds.

I think most people's pay scales have been frozen and a sizable number have taken paycuts.

Should be teachers' of course!

I'm astonished at how low the teachers salary / nursery nurse salary is in England compared to Scotland.

Teacher of 20 odd years. UP3 - about £37,000 I think. (Should have taken call centre work looking at Hurtle - although TBH I'm assuming you have a managerial role, rather than just answering the phone).

Cannierelax, I worked in a private nursery, it pays just above minimum wage, It really bugs me how much they charge parents and how little they pay staff.

You have been told the salary of one doctor. A friend of mine lives in Germany, looking after his parents almost full time. Two weekends a month, his sister looks after them. He is registered with the GMC, and twice a month, flies over for the weekend, hires a Premier Inn room, and does a 48 hr agency GP locum shift. After paying his airfare and hotel bill, he nets the same as teachers I know.

I'm a senior manager in Higher Education. Circa £45k before tax.

I should also say I average about a 50/55 hour week....

Dentist. About 50-60k depending on hours/how much holiday I take.

I am amazed at what teachers are earning.

We were told very firmly when DD started school that we musn't take her on holiday during term time ( fair enough, I wouldn't expect them to encourage it), however it was the way the Head said with a pitiful look:

" We face the same costs too of course".

yeah - You face the same costs with seemingly alot more bloody money than us - on one salary under 20 grand.

Im a social worker and I enjoy my job.
It is the kind of job that you can get too involved in iyswim?
You have to be mega organised and accept that you cannot control others you can only advise and allow them to make their own choices with the full knowledge of potential consequences.
The job never ends whether you work 60 hours and 37. There are weeks where everything goes wrong and others where things are calm.
Realism is the key to social work and peoples lives are complex.
The pay isn't too bad like I said on a bad week where it's all kicking off no sum of money will be worth it, but on a week where you know you've made a difference its great!