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

Nosey77 - no I studied law and then became a lawyer - as one of my rotation seats during my training contract I sat in banking and here I am now!

I should just add that I am still at work... not for the early bird...

Service manager of a small charity
Based in north west
Salary 29k
BA Hons psychology have previously done family therapy and worked with CYP
Extremely rewarding but money not good for level of responsibility and I do some out of hours work and a fair bit of travelling
As a long term single parent it's been a struggle but my now adult children have immense respect for what I do and how much it helps others - they both help me out where they can

Managerial position in risk. >60k. 30 years exp but varied (started in IT after degree).

Spent early 30s to 45 working pt and prioritising kids and exh career. Got divorced at 45, kids in secondary school. Focussed on career and doubled salary since! Worked extremely hard though and constantly re/up skilled during that time.

Love my job now :-)

In house lawyer, fin services, about 90k plus bonus. Love job now, regular hours, nice people etc, but didn't enjoy City magic circle firm for many years. Would not recommend it to my DDs. Newly qualifieds at my mc firm earn 100k now, but it's dull and soulless. There are frankly more exciting and/or worthwhile things to do.

Part time NHS data quality clerk/secretary
£8,160 per annum
East Midlands

Been doing it for 3 years but having kids lead to me reducing my hours and going to university part time.

Never realised how broke I am until mumsnet. Fuck!

Living in another country than the UK
Working for the tax authorities as a specialist
Salary approx 30£ pr year
Enjoy my work and the challenge that it gives

Executive Search Consultant.
London, but am home based part of the week.
Salary £57k plus commission which can vary from c£10k to £45k pa.
10 years' experience.
No formal qualifictions needed, but have a BA and professional Diploma in a foreign language, which is not needed to do the job.
Started as a PA, got promoted and trained on the job.
Would recommend it if you like dealing with people and learning about different sectors, organisations and how they operate. It's not a salesy environment, but a very professional one. I deal with a lot of senior and interesting people every day and find the work quite stimulating (well, most of the time :)).

Qualified Dental nurse in the SE.
I'm on £24000 and I've got 15+ years experience.

I'm on 48K as an account manager in IT (London), I do three days a week or 24 hours in some other configuration. I was in IT delivery for about 10 years. This job is much easier, I feel more like a SAHM than an IT professional.

I was hired to take a quick measure of projects and figure out which ones are in trouble.

I don't think I have a pension.

Benefit processor for DWP. 17 years experience £18900 per year full time pay -havent reached the top of the pay band yet (a heady £19600)- but am only part time at the moment.Hopefully will make top of the pay band before retirement.

There is flexi time but that is being eroded and business needs seem to overide all requests for changes in hours

Nurse. Practitioner in east mids
15yrs experience
approx 47k a year
3 years training, 2 years specialist degree, ongoing masters and post grad prescribing qualification
Love my job but get a lot of hassle from patients and relatives, plus the threat of losing extra duty is completly demoralising and enough to make many reconsider, still love nursing ????

Financial Controller
£40k pa, for 2.5 days a week.

12 years qualified, I manage a firm that is an investment for some high net worth individuals.
Bsc in an unrelated subject then 3 years of accountancy exams.

The job is interesting, but not as well paid as I previously have been. My last full time job (8 years ago)was very high pressure and paid £80k pa + bonus. I don't miss it.

PA, media industry
£35k
NW
8 years experience previously, have a degree but not in a particularly related subject. Just something I fell into and stuck with because the money's ok! Used to earn more in a previous job but moved to a more interesting industry- that's another perk of being a PA, you can move between companies fairly easily as the skills are transferable

I've namechanged to post this as I don't want to be known as a banker and I like my usual name

Corporate Relationship Banker in one of the largest UK banks. Based in London, 13 years' experience.

Annual salary £105k basic, plus bonus (last year bonus was 30% - that was a good year, it can vary quite a bit depending on my individual and also the bank's performance)

Education - BA in a humanities subject plus foreign language, then postgrad in Business Administration. Have done additional professional qualifications throughout my career, also posted extensively abroad with the Bank.

I joined the bank on the fast-track graduate programme, and am now Director level.

Love my job, it is full on, but I am able to work flexibly - while I do work FT and travel a fair amount, covering the EMEA region, I also work from home about once a week, and also take time out of the office for assemblies, sportsdays, walking my DC to school once a week etc. Have two young DC.

Operations Manager, Shropshire. 2 months management experience so far (7 years senior admin experience prior)

£24k

Tax adviser
Slightly under 8 years
North England
£64k basic plus 5-15% bonus
Masters degree from Oxford (totally unrelated subject) and chartered accountancy qualification (done since university and during the time I have been in my job)

Legal aid solicitor
15 years experience
28k
law degree then legal practice course then 2 year training contract
Would I recommend it? It's hard, stressful, long hours and an environment of constant cuts but you can make a real difference to people's lives - get homeless people housed etc. In reality if you started the study now, legal aid probably won't exist in six years when you qualify so wouldn't recommend it for that reason.

Another SE lawyer here. Very difficult to assess what I earn but it's in the 250k region.

Child protection social worker

Qualified 2 years.

Work too many hours, but love what I do

£28k

Hold masters degree in social work.

Previously worked in education and am really missing the 6 week break

Teacher. (Senior teacher in primary). 8 years exp.
A degree plus post grad qualifications (PGCE and MA).
£49K

I love my job but it is absolutely relentless in terms of being completely unable to switch off from it (previous life as a marketing manager-stressful but had my evenings as I could switch off). Also the amount of criticism the sector faces in the media can be tough though you do get hardened to it.

I would recommend it because the time spent with children in the classroom can be amazing and incredibly fulfilling. However, this is about 50% of the job. The workload (out of the classroom) increased considerably under Gove-this has made no particular impact in the children's learning but has led to droves leaving the profession. But on balance, yes I would still recommend the job if you have a passion for it.

Work in the NHS in 2 different jobs. I have a degree and 16 years experience currently earn just short of 16k. Nearly finished my Masters and have been job hunting this week, hoping it pans out and I'll earn over 20k soon. It's unrealistic to expect I'll ever earn enough to be considered decent and hard working.

BTW I have been working 7/8 weekends

Musician, salary £32k
Training: 15years + of daily practice, tuition etc, plus degree and post grad.
Hours: 35 plus concerts

Great career if you enjoy music. The training - salary ratio cannot be a driving factor though. Not being bitter but if you compare salary with some of the top ones here and the training required then.a bit unfair. however a job with huge satisfaction and a buzz from performance. Really is a job that you do for the love of it which is good cos u love it.

In house lawyer in Yorkshire. 10 years post qualification experience. Salary is £60k plus bonus and car.

Decent ish hours (I work 4 days) and can work from home at least one day a week. I took the normal route of law degree, training contract in private practice, 6 years as a corporate lawyer then after being made redundant went in house.

I've done working through the night and long commutes, and now work 10 miles away from home, have earn enough respect that I don't feel I need to prove myself by being chained to my desk and enjoy my job.

I wouldn't want to do a city role (and I doubt anyone would have me!) but that's how you earn the big bucks in law.

I feel very lucky that I was able to work hard at school to get good results, and had plenty of support whilst training.

Also quite surprised at how many lawyers have posted!