To ask how much you earn

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How much do you earn per anum before tax? What is your current position/job/career? Do you enjoy it?

@whitecatsandblackcats specialist tech/lawyer. They key really to the income was to have my own business - but I didn't set it up for that reason- no one else would employ me in the 2000s as a part time single mum. I still have imposter syndrome too.

£147k pa, pharmaceutical research, M-F full time with some flexibility. I'm 45.

about 2k month have a few things I do

200k cyber security- I'm lucky and love my work

45k. Run my own business and work 6.5 days a week. It’s extremely stressful.

Run a boarding house at a south Eastern boarding school and teach secondary - £48k

Family law lawyer with my own firm about 150K. I love the job and the flexibility of working for myself.

mymickeyisbetterthanyours That's amazing! Could you be more specific about which area of cyber security you work in and how you got there? I'm in my third year of a cyber security degree and I'm not sure which direction to take!

£96K, part time, quantitative finance. It would not make sense for you to go over £100K as you will lose more in not being entitled to 30 hours / tax free childcare then.

33k including unsocial hours payments. I’m a paramedic and mostly love my job. Hugely stressful though and the hours are dreadful.

This thread is inspiring, seeing so many women smashing their careers (actual careers, not MLMs that prey on mothers and people naive to business).

I grew up living on a council estate, none of my family had ever been to uni, and I saw my mum stuck in very low paid NMW stressful care home jobs because she had a family young and had to do whatever it took to make ends meet, despite being a smart lady. I grew up assuming it would be impossible for anyone to ever pay me more than NMW for anything as I had no sense of my own capabilities and earning more than a few quid per hour just didn’t seem like something to happen to someone like me, earning over £15k felt like a pipe dream.

If I had a teenage daughter I’d show her this thread!

Teacher on 28k. I work flat out, am 47 and looking at the wages on here think that i've been an utter mug!

£28k is a great wage imo phleba, but of course it depends on how many hours that’s spread over and whether the work is worth it stress-wise.

@phlebasconsidered These threads always go the same way. You get the majirity of posters talking about huge wages.

Average wage us 27-28k ish in the UK.

And MN is SKEWED. vast amounts of people are scraping by on NMW zero hour contract jobs or doing a ‘job’ rather than a ‘career’. I’d have found this thread very hard to believe when I was earning poverty wages and before getting to know the MN demographic, though now I have no reason to believe people are lying on it (despite the assertions of several PP...), what would someone have to gain claiming a higher salary behind an anonymous username?

I do find it inspiring though.

#sunlight* - I was brought up on a council estate too, school didn't even know how to access uni forms (I was one of three that year who were the first to ever ask), no one in my family had ever been either. I think it's a great idea to show girls this thread just so they can see what's out there as I agree with PP who said women are much less likely to talk about this stuff.

So, either mumsnet has a higher wage demographic, or the £26k national average is a pile of nonsense as it includes part time workers.*
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Perhaps the people on the lower wages are working their arses off and not on the internet - like retail workers, warehouse workers, hospital porters etc.

£65K deputy headteacher

£125k basic plus bonus. Director level, sales, aged 35, in London

Good for people earning six figures, that puts you in the top 1-2% That kind of money is going to be completely unobtainable for the vast majority of people.

At the other end end of the scale, around one in five people earn less than that national living wage.

is there anyone here involved in financial education?

Support worker for people age 18-35 with mental health conditions, autism and challenging behaviour. Work 24 hrs a week. Get £11,500 a year. Like the job, dislike the company.

40k plus £1700 per annum car allowance. Work in housing at a senior level. Am proud to have achieved what I have at a young age and have never been to uni.

How old are you, NotToday1601?

@Slavingerwings Thanks! I'm a writer too but earn more in the 20s. Do you ghostwrite books? I'm doing a mixture of editorial and copywriting and am struggling to decide what to concentrate on.