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?

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.

Indeed. As a teenager I had absolutely no idea how I’d ever get a job beyond min wage and I didn’t even consider it to be an option available to me. I really do think it’s important to ensure young girls realise they can achieve, they can earn well, that the world is their oyster and they don’t just have to accept low paid insecure work if they want to achieve more!

I'm on £46k. I work in Internal Comms. Job is okay. I don't hate it, but don't leap out of bed shopping with joy either.

My friend is a crew commander in the fire service and gets £32k, I think he should be in double that for risking his life.

WHOOPING. Not shopping! Fruedian slip? Ha!

I love these threads as I can pass on all of these higher paid career ideas to my ds and we'll support him to get there. I wish my parents had had that knowledge to pass on to me. The pinnacle of success for them was to avoid getting pregnant by 16 and to avoid the factory jobs. They felt being a secretary or a nurse was a very successful career. Whilst those jobs are very worthwhile, they tend towards the lower end of the pay scale.

Now that I've met people on £150,000+ (and 10x that) in real life, I feel there is absolutely no reason why ds can't be on that too, particularly as he's much brighter than we are!

I’m a pharmacy assistant in the NHS, £18000

£14K part time job in supermarket

FearLove - I was band 6 but the service I worked for was commissioned out to a private company and despite TUPE my terms and conditions were changed/I was forced to agree to working arrangements and a change in role that was v different on return from mat leave. I undertook a PGDipHE in this area and they wanted to pay me less than I was on without the qualification. I felt forced to leave.

I have v little chance of promotion working in the area I currently do (and have a specific BSc in). Many others are similarly skilled and qualified and band 5, I'm not unusual. I live rurally and moving to another Trust would be making a decision to commute for an hour each way after 13 hour shifts which is just beyond me.

I'm not fed up or anything other than pleased to read of women being successfully employed and well remunerated for their work, being recognised and rewarded. It's fantastic.

I do however regret the situation I find myself in. I am an intelligent, hardworking, committed and qualified individual, doing a very hard job with v little reward. I also find it regretful that there is such a disconnect in earning potential between various professions and the variation is not die to the amount of HE needed, nor the time spent gaining qualifications, nor the perceived worth to society. For example, I have solicitors in my family earning 6 figure sums and doctors earning under 40k.

I don't want my children to choose their path by earnings, not judge worth in financial terms but also, it seems I made a very naive choice becoming a nurse.

My doctor sibling earns what lawyers do, though, QW. I always know owners of small law firms whose staff earn more than the £20k a year drawings the one partner in the non thriving firm earns.

wish my parents had had that knowledge to pass on to me. The pinnacle of success for them was to avoid getting pregnant by 16 and to avoid the factory jobs. They felt being a secretary or a nurse was a very successful career.

To be fair, I do think nursing can be an extremely successful and fairly lucrative career. They start qualified on £22kish which is a decent wage, and with experience a specialism can get up to band 7 which tops out around the mid £40ks. It’s not megabucks compared to the people on six figures but in terms of the training it requires and entry requirements it’s definitely a solid career choice if it’s work someone would enjoy.

On the new pay scales, even if a nurse stayed on their qualifying band 5, by the top of their scale they’re on £30k. Which personally I think is a very respectable salary.

overagain I’m in Scotland. We are just below team manager as well - two salary bands above social workers

Nursery manager, is in my contract not allowed to discuss salary. Work 55 hours a week & love my job! Used to be a part time cleaner, wasn't very good at that.

The latest episode of the FT Money Show podcast is a good listen on the topic of financial transparency for women.

www.ft.com/content/cd5edbd0-32df-4ea3-aa60-e914a58d11ff

Oh, and the site it talks about www.refinery29.com/en-gb/money-diary-uk will definitely be of interest to some in this thread!

I read the FT article about that money diary.
It is also one reason I am interested in reading and scanning my earlier diaries as it is fascinating to see what I spent item by item at university in the 1980s and now I am through to 1993 (where it is much the same as always for most people - housing and children the biggest costs)

HR, circa £55K. Love it on the whole, can be tough at times

Love my job, bus driver £26.600

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

That's another difference, isn't it?
My professional qualification was four years while I worked full time, I paid about £5k of it. I went to evening classes.

I later did a degree part time while I worked full time, and that cost me c£12k (just in actual costs, not including travel, books, stationery, unpaid days etc). The classes were on Saturdays. The degree is not specific to my job but it has helped to open doors for me as lots of employers state that you need a degree and I didn't have one.

For the person who said HR 'looks chilled' - it's generally not. There is a lot of responsibility. You don't get "a say in" designing benefits and reward - you have to actually make the decisions, take responsibility, deliver on time and to budget, ensure all the technical stuff behind the scenes works......it's not just sitting around chatting about what would be nice to have. Plus you have to consider a wide range of requirements, not just your own.

You can transition into HR but like all professions, if you move into it, you have to start at the bottom usually. If you have wide line management experience you might be able to move into HR at a slightly higher level in an industry you have experience of but not otherwise.

I was that girl who got pregnant at 17 and dropped out of school. There is no way anyone, including me, thought I would end up with a really good career.

Once I got my self back together, I got my first office job. It was quickly apparent that I could do whatever was asked of me, and I found ambition. Over the years I went up against several men for jobs and promotions, and was determined to win. I set salary goals. 30k by the time I was 30, 40k by 40. 50k by 50. It really focused me, and made me keep striving. I am now at the top of my field.

I have mentored several young ladies and it is amazing watching them achieve their goals. And exceed them in some cases.

We women need to believe in presented ourselves, or nobody else will.

i earn a few ££ above NMW as an admin assistant and love/hate relationship with work .

I’m a band 6 hospital midwife on £28,050 yearly salary before increments.

For the most part I absolutely love my job but the pay is horrendous given the level of responsibility and the ins and outs of the job. Not to mention the fact that we have a half hour unpaid break deducted for a 12 and a half hour shift... yet it’s rare we actually get to take it 😩

Although upthread you post...

**Oakenbeach

£300k for 2 or 3 days a week for 20 or so weeks per year. Writing pays well when you’re good!

13/11/2018 13:34 Oakenbeach

NMW full time so £15k... work hard and am never sick - hope to get a better job soon!

So perhaps it isn’t a “fact”

Am I right that Oakenbeach basically trolled herself?

Also odd is those posters huffing and puffing about what a personal question. This is an anonymous website, not a dinner party!

So you can say what you like, and no-one will know if it's true unless you forget to change your user name like Oakenbeach.

I earn a very good wage working in media and love my job but am saddened reading this at how poorly paid some of our most vital services are.

Oh Oakenbeach, you did it here too!

£42k - I work in software development as a product owner. I don’t mind it and it means DH can stay at home with the kids.

HEO £31k but just recently medically retired. Now get £13k pension. Loved my job just not the politics from above.
If I had my time again I would study to become a solicitor as have paid them extortionate amountsof money over last year for very little work so definitely a job to consider OP.