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?

sales Exec 12 weeks holidays £41,000 plus company car and daily allowance, love my job when it’s all going well, when it’s tough I dream about having an easy life gardening and bird watching. Hope that these simple pleasures will make up for the fact I’ve made very little investments for my retirement, am more a live for the moment person.

Teacher in a PRU (pupil referral unit) love it most of the time! Full on and can be very stressful- less marking though then mainstream teaching and that’s a bonus 😜
Approx £57,000 good holidays but do have to work to some degree during them and long days during term time- often take work home- again less then when I worked in mainstream

I had no idea teachers could earn £57k

Money doesn't buy happiness

Only ever said by people with money.

Whatever your current emotional state, imagine it but also with no money at all - do you honestly think it would be no worse?

Money buys so much more than essentials - security, options, hope, joy, experiences, all of which add to personal well-being.

Yes, it does ‘buy’ happiness imo.

£20k a year, I am a support worker in the charity sector helping some of the most vulnerable people in society. I have a great work life balance.

I love my job, I like helping people and go home every day feeling I have accomplished something and feel proud of the work I do.

DH earns more, but even our combined household income is about £50k.

We live within our means, have a modest mortgage on a 3 bed terrace house and go on one holiday a year as a family, we have one DS (trying for a second/last child) Life isn't plush but it's enjoyable and we don't feel as a whole we lack or want for anything.

I don't think money can buy happiness, I've met plenty of miserable rich people but I do agree it's impossible to be happy without "enough"

I think money affords you choices, which in turn can make you happy.

£50k for 4 days a week, although one of those days is a (paid) study day at home. Plus car & petrol allowance which is £11k per year. I work in Sales & Marketing in Manufacturing and my hours are 7am - 4pm (officially at least) . I love my job and my company. I have 4 young kids and pay a hefty amount for childcare but hoping that once they're all at school we should start to feel a bit better off. I can't complain though, totally comfortable lifestyle, not flashy at all though and have to watch the pennies. Husband earns similar to me (minus car allowance although gets a company car) and also works 4 days as a Consultant Engineer.

£39K. Legal PA in the City. Hate it because we have been treated like children, given minimal flexibility (a partner didn't like me having to leave 30 mins early a couple of times a month to pick up my daughter when my husband couldn't - despite me more than making up the time) and when it comes down to it the partners are gods and PAs are disposable and beneath notice. Magic Circle firm behaved better than others though. No wonder women find it hard to rejoin or stay in the workforce after having children . After 12 years of this crap I want to run away from this industry but banking and law seem to be the only industries that pay comparable salaries. And we need the money. Fuck it.

I'm band 5 in the NHS. I've worked in the health service in various roles since I was 17. I've been to uni numerous times to gain multiple qualifications, I'm triple-registered with the NMC.

I feel so dispirited reading this thread in some ways.

To the person that had a go at me for expressing surprise that a tube driver earned 50 odd k, please read QuickWash’s post.
This is my point. It just seems disproportionate.
And yes, I am of the opinion that it mainly involves holding a handle. Please put me right if I’m wrong

Food buyer for large hospitality company. £65k + £7.5k car allowance. Absolutely love it - it’s interesting, varied and I work with great people. Also can work from home when I chose - usually at least 2 or 3 days per week. I count my blessings every day I am really lucky - but I am good at it ! 20+ years experience so I’ve earned my stripes

The very mow earners often don't know their annual income though, because we are on 0 hour contracts. I'm actually on a 4 hour contract, but average 16 hours, sometimes 8 sometimes 40, so I'd estimate my annual income to be around 6k.

HLTA with Safeguarding responsibilities. Roughly £15,000. Used to love it but getting so fed up with constant changes in processes and paperwork.

@Boomah look out for Trainee Nurse Associate posts. They are specifically aimed at HCAs looking to take their next step into nursing, all fully funded and backed by the NHS. A lot of areas have been given pots of money to support practices/trusts who want to put their HCAs through this course.

QuickWash as a nurse isn’t there opportunity to progress to higher bands in your trust? Nurses start on band 5 but I know several who’ve been able to progress quickly up the ladder. Even a band 6 seems almost inevitable after a couple of year if willing to do further training!

One thing I absolutely love about working for the NHS is their willingness to invest in and upskill their staff, in three short years I managed to go from starting on band 4 to securing a band 7 post, they fully funded my year-long postgrad training course and gave me plenty of time and opportunity to do my work. If your trust keeps you held in a band 5 role even if you show aptitude and ambition i’d be considering other trusts in your locality!

Sorry, for those who aren’t NHS workers for comparison I was able to start on £18k and reach £34k within three years, albeit by going back to uni for a year while working (three days work two days uni per week), which was hard work but paid for and an absolute golden ticket for my career. Once I’m at the top of my band now I’ll be on the mid £40ks.

£29,000 F/T teacher and curriculum leader of my department.

LOVE my job but wish I got paid more.

Money doesn't buy happiness but the lack of money some years back (when I was unemployed, got into debt and had to move out of my rented flat into a shared house) gave me depression.

I hope no one feels fed up by other women earning more. It woud be nice if instead it could encourage people or help them (if they think money matters) help their teenage daughters into the higher paid career paths.

I don't think money makes you happy but if you spend less than you earn then you tend to be happier . Charles Dickens in Mr Micawber was right - "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and six pence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

CoconutBlue what part of the country? And how senior (our 'senior social worker' title is just below team manager). Seems high. I'm Northwest.

I work as a childminder, they pay is very unstable. If I added it up going by what I earn weekly just now I make about 13k/year, I have come into a situation that will never happen again though, and will have 4 children that will all be part time and fit perfectly around one another so I only have 3 kids per day at any time, at that point I will be earning around 27k.

Lovingbenidorm DH works for tfl, there’s a reflexes test to be a tube driver (DH failed) and how hard the tubes are to drive depends on if it’s a newer automated line or not. DH thinks though that the main reason they get paid so much though is the responsibility....having someone jump in front of your train is something that’s happened to quite a few people he knows :(

Lots of people in HR on seemingly pretty good salaries. Maybe I'm in the wrong job? Wherever I've worked HR department seems very friendly and chilled, not too stressful.

I'm 26, a chartered account but now work in IT Audit earning 47k in a relatively low cost area. Not sure how my career can/will progress but I'd hope to earn at least £100k someday.

HR sounds interesting - especially if I could have a say on design of compensation/bonus/benefits schemes from both a financial and an employee perspective (i.e. trying to keep them happy, improve retention etc). I think my number crunching/analysis skills would be helpful here.

Anyone made a transition before?