To ask your salary, profession, location and years of experience

[Nosey77]

I know I am being really nosey and it's not very British to talk money. I was inspired by another thread where people are asking questions to all sorts of careers.

I was just wondering if people could take part and say what they do, how much they earn and where they are. Also, could you also provide advice on how to enter the profession and whether you recommend it. Thought this might be more u self than just go ogling as I get real life opinions and have found the other thread really insightful

Please let's not make anyone feel bad for what they are. I'll start

Retail assistant, 3 year, Leeds, £6.50ph. Whilst I actually enjoy it, I'm looking to leave. No advice needed - just hand in tour CVs

Bank Manager
£42k + car allowance + potential to earn up to £8k per year in bonuses.

Worked for same company since I was 17, been there 16yrs now & worked my way up from cashiering to management. Got into management young at 19 and it went from there.
I love my job & the people I work with, but I wouldn't recommend it now, purely because our staffing levels are being reduced & replaced by online/telephone banking, plus paying in machines etc. I'm not sure branches will be around for much longer at this rate.

Forgot to say I'm in Birmingham.

Another solicitor - worked in city but when I made it wasn't really sure why I was there!

Took 9 years out and now back as a solicitor in the Home Counties. Earn £35k but that will increase as I get my hand back in. Am enjoying it, walk to work, lots of flexibility, interesting work and a great boss. When I left couldn't imagine that I would ever return!!

Language teacher and head of department

20 years experience in several countries

South west of UK

Earn a measly £21982 per year for a 0.75 job so 75% of the week.

Mortgage advisor 32k in the north west, average bonus 15k per annum.

3 years in mortgages around 10 in finance/banking in general

Chartered Valuation Surveyor in a small local govt organisation. Currently on £35k, but I'm now at the top of my pay scale with no chance of further increases apart from annual cost of living increases, so 1% for the forseeable if lucky!

Scotland, 10 years post qualifying experience, but I've been doing this for 13 years now.

I've got a degree, post grad diploma and then professional training/exam.

I do enjoy the job, but a large part of my job is dealing with the public and the nature of our business means they shout at me (tax), meh, used to it now, but it can be hard some days.

Most surveyors are graduates, but not all, if you can persuade an employer to take you on you can do all your training through day release or night school, it happens a fair bit.

It's a fab, interesting and a varied job, if I was starting again I might opt for a different branch of surveying, but this role suits me.

Primary teacher
Will earn 41k in September
4 years experience
London

I love my job and I feel lost now its the school holidays. But it is in no way family friendly during term time (although the holidays are fantastic)!

IT contractor - currently about £91,000 a year for a 8 hour day 4 day a week job. Outer London based.

Previous to this (less than a year ago) I did an almost identical job in a local authority in the north for approx. 23k a year.

I swing between thinking I'm massively overpaid now or massively underpaid previously.

I have approx. 10 years experience in the area I work in, but no qualifications.

For those who think law is an easy way to make money, I think the answer is that is can be but there are huge caveats (I used to be a City lawyer, now in a related field):

1. the big money is at the big City firms. Not everyone can get a job at that type of firm. A high street property lawyer or family lawyer (for example) will not earn anywhere near those amounts.
2. the really big money generally requires partnership. It is much much harder to get partnership than it used to be.
3. It requires a lot of sacrifices along the way and is not a great career from a work life balance perspective. People regularly work until late and night (and through the night) and weekends and have disrupted holidays (it is better in some areas than others). Part time working is rare (although I see a few on this thread work part time, so maybe things are improving).
4. A lot of people do not like the job (sometimes because of the job itself, sometimes because of the hours etc). However, because it is well paid it can be very hard to leave so there is often a sense of feeling trapped.
5. If my DD1 wanted to do it, I don't think I would put her off because it is a good stepping stone and can be very interesting. However, I would make sure she went into it with their eyes properly open. If my DD2 wanted to do it, I actually probably would try to put her off (in the sense of explaining very clearly to her why I don't think it would suit her) because I just don't think her personality would be suited to it at all (unless she changes a lot as she gets older)

Marketing Manager for a tiny company, £25k, South East. I didn't go to University, but have been very lucky to have a very varied career working across many sectors with travel too.

Fell into my current role when I realised it was something I wanted to develop in, but as with many small companies, my role is not just Marketing and comprises a lot of Operational aspects and company Administration (basically, I'm multi skilled... )

If you want flexibility and loyalty, a small company is a great place to work, but the financial prospects won't be there unless the company is planning to go big.

Good luck choosing!

frizzy how did you get to ups so quickly

Geotechnical Engineer
Leeds
BSc, MSc, PhD and Chartership
16 years experience post PhD
£40k pro-rata (I work p/t) plus car
I'm in the public sector. I could get more in the private sector, but I like the flexibility and holidays of the public sector - v handy with a young family!

Really interesting thread - thanks for starting it. Particularly interesting to see the variety of salaries within the same industry

Job: University lecturer, post-92 institution
Where: North West
Salary: £47K

Entry: Industry training (qualification), Degree, MSc, PhD, subject-specific Post Grad qualifications, Professional CPD, etc, all self-funded and done PT whilst working FT in industry.

Recommend: It depends. Rewards are often not immediate or obvious. I’m very lucky, I have a FT permanent position, although these are increasingly difficult to secure. Many folk are on short-term contracts.

Workload is tough if you are committed: summer is definitely not a long holiday - this is also the time when you'll need to do the career-progressing writing, research, voluntary work - be prepared to sacrifice holidays, weekends and evenings.

Have friends outside academia. This is vital. Your friends may not always be interested in what you do, but they will help you keep your feet on the ground: most people who work in academia are not ‘TV celebrity wannabees’ who stand on Mountains looking ‘humble’

On the plus side, you do have a lot of autonomy when compared to other vocations. You are in a job that does (eventually) make a difference to people’s lives. Downside: the competitive environment does not always bring out the best in human nature.

Experience: Over ten years FT employment in industry working to a mid-level position whilst studying part-time to gain the requisite qualifications (self-funded), followed by over ten years FT working in higher education sector whilst retaining professional qualifications.

I'm with you icimoi. I am constantly astonished at how much information people divulge on mn.

Working overseas in a specialised HR role for an international company.

Net annual salary in excess of £ 100k

Arrived here via 3 average A levels, a general business degree from an old poly - but got a 2.1.

Then being in the right place at the right time, working hard, being a team player and having an unwavering positive attitude and having a can do attitude.

Joined the company young and will have been 20 years soon. The big financial benefits took around 10 years to start rolling in.

Love my job. Love my colleagues and will stay here (thanks to the fab pension scheme) until I retire at 57.

Meant to say I an very grateful for how lucky I am.

Non departmental public body. BSc, MSc, 8 years experience £26k

South west

Complaint handler for a bank, call centre based.

Including bonus around £28k. I've been with the bank 10 years and worked my way up slowly - my starting salary was £11k, straight from doing my A Levels.

Clinical practice facilitator in theatres. Did nurse training and post grad qualifications in mentoring and perioperative practice plus seven years as a scrub nurse. 31k in London.

Strategic planner/ forecaster
FTSE 100 company in the SE (not London)
Have a BA/ MBA and 25 yrs experience (am rather unqualified by modern standards, all my young colleagues have PhDs)
Current post is not UK based, but if I were working at the UK head office I would be on about £60-70k + bonus

What don't you believe Angular? That people are lawyers?

Expatmomma - do you not have/need any HR qualifications for your job?

Child protection social worker
Full time plus endless unpaid overtime and stress - I do know what hard work is

£27, 123 for being 3 years qualified

Advice - don't bother! I do love my job but seeing that there are far better salaries out there (working the hours isn't a problem I do it already unpaid) I should have chosen something else given that I'm now supporting my family alone as I currently struggle to make ends meet every month.

I will tell my kids to be practical rather than try to do something similar to me.

3 years full time degree needed

Civil servant working in policy, 9 years experience and middling seniority. I got on through the Civil Service graduate scheme (fast stream), for which you need a 2:2 or above in anything or you can join without if you're already in the Civil Service.

£60k ish pro rata as I'm v slightly part time. Great pension, mat leave etc and lots of opportunities to work part time, though it does limit your choices a bit. Exactly how many hours you end up doing can vary a lot depending on your job and how good your team are.

I would definitely recommend it. The fast stream and the civil service in general is very open to career changers and people without huge numbers of academic qualifications, though it can take a while to work your way up, especially outside London.