To ask how much you earn

[ezeria]

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

£53k, nurse managing a boarding school health centre. 5 days a week, no weekends or nights, stupidly long holidays (20 weeks holiday per year) and all meals.

I also get a 4 bed house. We're in SE England so the package is probably worth £70k+

£38k full time primary school teacher, been teaching 22 yrs can't earn anymore unless I become a deputy or headteacher (which I don't want to do) I'm nearly 50 and although I still enjoy it I'm fed up of the changes that they constantly throw at us.

When retirement comes I will embrace it!

29k operations manager

41k I am a manager for frontline child protection social work team. I really care about my job but definitely a love/hate relationship as impact on my family life is significant due to hours worked above what I'm paid for.

Oh hi ezeria, I remember your recent thread that got pulled - did you manage to sort things out with your boyfriend or did you give him the old heave-ho? I have to say, I'm impressed though. Going from having to abandon your A levels due to illness to a FT nannying job in such a short space of time must have taken a lot of determination. Such a turn around - you couldn't make this stuff up could you?

£13k Teaching Assistant. I mostly love it, but not always.

I used to work in market research (the analysis side of things) before I had kids. I was on £45k 15 years ago, so it would be a lot more now had I not left to have children. I wonder about going back into it, as I did enjoy it (a good brain work-out), but I worked silly hours sometimes and it was a proper commute to get there (as opposed to my 3 minute stroll into school now).

I have no financial need to work. We could easily live off my DH's salary. I flipping love my job

That's great! I've no doubt a fair few people do! I just think that most don't. And obviously if you're helping people find careers, it's best to try to help them find one they love.

£38/hour self employed lecturer - hate it.
Education has lost it's integrity. Students are never failed regardless of how little effort or talent. College executive management are only interested in their annual bonus and don't care how much they drive the staff to ensure 100% pass rates.

£41k teaching. £7k senior examiner

7.200 a year, piss poor and drowning in debt ;(

Basic salary £90k plus bonus of around 30-40% on top. I work 4 days a week. It's in the insurance sector in an extremely niche role in London. Can't say I love it but I never felt I had a vocation so decided to pursue a career path that would pay me well so that I could at least enjoy my life outside of work. Worked very hard to get my current role but now have a lot of autonomy and flexibility which works brilliantly from a work/life balance perspective.

@hoodiemum, if you don't mind me asking, how did you get an editor and so on? It's an area I would love to work in.

@losmenios of course 🙄
Unsurprisingly I do know that. Hence me saying we shouldn't place salary central to career decision making behaviour.

£56k

Psychologist 56k (middle of Consultant pay scale).

Lots as does my boyfriend.
Why do you want to know?
By lot we are both in 6 figures.

NHS Clerical. 20,500 pa, 33 hours per week.
Love my job, worked there 27 years.. hope I have many more.

Unsurprisingly I do know that. Hence me saying we shouldn't place salary central to career decision making behaviour

Yes, I was agreeing with you. 🙄🙄🙄

we shouldn't place salary central to career decision making behaviour.

Definitely. I love my job, I'm good at it. It's a proper "career" and I enjoy climbing the ladder. But no matter how good I am, how many hours I put in, how high I climb, I'll never earn mega bucks. It's a job that exists solely in the public sector and is therefore bound by public sector wages. It shouldn't mean my career is less important though. Wages aren't everything.

£33k Probation Officer. Sometimes enjoyable, but generally always interesting. You can never really plan or predict exactly how you will spend your day as things will always take an unexpected twist!

Caseloads too high and since it was privatised it's been ruined in a number of ways. Used to run very well before. Wish the Government would acknowledge what their inspectors are finding...that it doesn't work and needs to become one service again. Would save money and resume the great public protection work that was across the board previously.

PlainVanilla OP says why on page 3. Wants a career change to something better paid and is looking for ideas.

Vet 14 years qualified. 3 day week, 1/3 weekends on call. 31k.
Love it most of the time!

£39,000
private nanny
central london tho and have the years of experience behind me and the qualifications
love it but long hours and tiring .
children are the easy part tbh

@overagain exactly. It can be a particularly dangerous attitude. One which is often detrimental to women and their career development. In my research I've spoken to many women who have given up their career or taken a step back because their husbands earned more and therefore their job was considered more important.

One women I spoke to was a nurse and was married to an project manager in the IT sector. He refused to alter his working patterns when they had children because he earned more. She had to leave work despite her career being arguably more valuable to society.

£49k Project Manager. Like the company, don’t love the job but it pays the bills