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

[Cannierelax]

Just being nosey!

Call centre telephonist. I earn £9.50 per hour
I work about 120 hours a month and bring home about £1K a month.
I mostly work school hours so I'm always there to collect my kids from school but I do work 1 day every weekend which I don't like.

Almost £30k and I work in internal Comms. I also get good perks and a (usually) decent bonus.

I'm usually happy to talk salary - I agree with those saying things would be fairer if we all did.

I'm a nursery nurse too for the LA on £18K not the breadwinner and only work about 14 hours a week or 20ish at the most, so pro rata.

I agree with comments made about teaching salaries- why are some people 'shocked'? Public sector workers'salaries are in the public domain. I'm Head of English ( no stealth boast intended!) and earn 48,000. I never feel that I should justify myself when people say the usual things about holidays and finishing 'early.' I love my job and I work really hard to make sure I do it right. Do I love the holidays? Hell yeah! If people think it's so easy I just ask them if they ever considered going into teaching- it's their choice, just as it is mine!
Apologies for slight rant but hopefully you get my drift! I'm nice really!

Marketing /comms manager- 48k. Took a 5k pay cut from last job so feels like less. 20 years exp.

As most of classmates from biz school are in finance/banking/consulting I feel properly poor (and unsuccessful) in comparison!!

I'm a legal assistant (paralegal) 32hrs per week for just under £16k a year gross. I've worked for my (huge and global) firm for 7 years but have had a lot of pay freezes.

When ds2 goes to school and our childcare bill isn't so high I am going to retrain as a nurse. I want a job that is worthwhile and will help people, the opposite of my current job.

Am surprised how many on this thread work long hours. It almost seems unusual to have a 9 to 5 job that is really 9 to 5 only.

Maybe local authority or HE admin?

I dont think I have ever worked 9-5.

Right now I leave the office at 5pm, but I am there at 7am and am availavle on phone/email pretty much all the time.

Never had a job where you turn up at 9am and leave at 5pm and that's it.

Cannie

I work in Finance.

Morloth most people I know working ft spend all their out of hours time staring at work messages on their iPhone!

I work 25 hours a week in a call centre for local authority housing and earn just under £13k actual, bring home £900 pm after deductions. Job's ok, pays well I think for the area I live. Dh also works for local authority f/t and brings home £1100 pm. No job security at the moment, constant rounds of redundancy/consultation and no pay rises for the last 3 yrs or so but hey ho...

I was a strategy analyst on 25k full time - am applying for risk analyst job at mo for 23k fingers crossed after a year off with ds (redundancy money runners out - I have the FEAR)

The salary scale for NQTs is set nationally not locally. Therefore an NQT in Fife will earn the same as an NQT in Aberdeen. If you don't believe me, check out the information on the EIS web site.

Part time in the Queen Vic, should be about £6 per hour but with London weighting and home-wrecking bonus I take home about £500 per week

Marketing, £75k

Before I had DC I was a solicitor on £60k + bonus. Now I'm a mum and I earn zip!

I'm a GP partner working 4 days a week which is officially 40 hours but unofficially at least 48+ hours with no lunch break as it is impossible to manage the workload in the routine 10 hour day. So effectively full time. I earn about £68k gross. This is in Scotland rather than England where practice income apparently is higher. I think it is ok pay but do get a bit perplexed at the figures the papers produce as seem quite far removed from the reality I see!

Senior social worker. Freelance. £34 per hour.

I agree on the whole hardly anyone working 9-5 thing. I certainly don't. My official hours a 9-5. Always in early or stay late, sometimes both. I also rarely take an hours lunch break and when I'm not in work I am checking emails every so often. But I don't mind that. I get paid well and I'd rather have that money and do the extra hours to be honest.

65k for 4 days a week would be 80k if full time- marketing strategy. 18+ years experience and a post grad qualification- feel v lucky as I love my job too! 9-6 with a bit of outside hours reading but ave rules about checking email on day off.

Architect (newly qualified in 1998) 15k. Such a joke I left!
Estate agent in central london for a while. 14k + approx 10k in commission (2002ish)

Morloth most people I know working ft spend all their out of hours time staring at work messages on their iPhone!

Plenty of time spent in my job waiting for a mahosive model to open, quick check of phone. Waiting for a huge report to print out. Check phone. Waiting for a report to comvert to PDF. Eat lunch at desk, quick check of phone and take 10 mins to sort out a bill or some kind of life admin.

My working hours are so unpredictable. Some weeks I leave every day at 7, then I'll have a bad run and be in the office until 1 or 2 am for several days/weeks. And I have v little control over my workload so I can't plan for an easy day.

Previously 80k. Now nothing.
Guess which makes me happier?