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?

and didn’t bother to mention that’s what you were doing until well after people caught you out?

I did it on two very similar threads... the whole point of using the same username for two such responses was to make the point of how easy it is to make stuff up!....

If you read a little more you’d see a further exchange where I commented that I assumed the poster who had queried my post before my second post had realised it was made up. She immediately responded saying she had....

As for not responding sooner, some of us have lives outside MN!

42k. Senior teacher. Love it!

Some sectors do not get paid as much but there is an element of how much do I need to be paid for this to continue

On any thread about jobs people love it tends to be the ones that give back something to others

If people are telling the truth, then high earners are vastly over-represented, which makes the whole thread feel a bit braggy.

I don't think MN attracts high fliers. Different threads attract different people - like the recent thread where the OP had a few hundred every month for all expenses and people told her they wouldn't even know what to do with all that cash and would live like kings.

Right. So the thread about how much you earn overwhelmingly attracts people who earn a lot. In other words, people who earn a lot like to tell people about it.

Yep
Like you’d think most men are 6 foot 4 plus on any airline seat thread

I think it would be more interesting to see people's progression Breugel, my answer would have been very different 5years ago, but I still would have posted.

If people are telling the truth, then high earners are vastly over-represented, which makes the whole thread feel a bit braggy

Of course it’s braggy. If you earn £100k+, what else is your motivation for sharing? It’s surely disingenuous to convince yourself you’re sharing this info as part of some representative survey to inform us all of what we all earn!

Fair point.

Oaken... talking rubbish and pretending to be the moral compass once caught out 🤔

£50,000 plus I am self employed in the private medical profession but it does depend on how hard I decide to work. There are times when I need to take a month off.

I've been posting about all my failures over the years and partly to show a 40 year working life will be full of ups and downs so just keep at it and make sure teenage children make informed choices about careers.

I agree with the post above about seeing people's progression too and how they got to where they are now. All interesting stuff.

85k. I’m a civil engineer, specialising in delay analysis work. I work out how and why projects run over time and budget and then review the contracts to see who is liable for the delay. I work for a small consultancy having done years on site in contracting. I enjoy it, it’s technically challenging and I get to meet and speak to a variety of people working on major civil engineering and building projects.

Of course it’s braggy. If you earn £100k+, what else is your motivation for sharing?

So what’s the motivation if you post on a very low salary? Or an average salary? Or a slightly above average salary? Etc etc

We’re on a discussion forum chewing the fat.

Oaken... talking rubbish and pretending to be the moral compass once caught out 🤔

Ffs, you’re like my daughter when she was three... when she actually thought I was trying to hide when I put my face in the hands!

Bit reluctant to answer the question directly and provide a figure - I'll either be another one lying about being a high earner, or I'm telling the truth and bragging

I think it's really really important to talk about salary transparency because one factor that can sometimes contribute to the gender pay gap is women low balling themselves when it comes to salary negotiations.

I'm freelance and have had occasions where I discovered I was earning less than a male colleague....because I'd gone in too low when I told them my day rate vs what I was worth (to the company - not my inherent worth, what I do is of fuck all value to society compared to nurses or care workers).

I was advised by a friend that if they didn't gasp when I told them my day rate, I was going in too low - as you're expected to go in high and negotiate down from there. Yes this requires confidence (and probably arrogance) in your own abilities - but mostly it requires understanding what the industry norms and what kind of day rate companies would expect for a given role / skillet / years of experience.

Freelancing massively bumped up my earnings - I earned the same amount from my last 6 month contract as the annual salary of many perm jobs at my level. I don't get sick pay or employer pension contributions, but being a contractor is still significantly better paid. Lots of people in my industry who freelance don't go perm again, because it would have to be a really special job to make it worth taking a pay cut (as well as losing the flexibility & variety of freelance)

Several recruiters in my industry publish annual salary benchmarking reports which is really helpful. And tbh the most helpful is talking about it with colleagues - I'd never have known I was under- charging otherwise.

liar and making it up, or telling the truth and I'm brwgguny

Today: £2,065 plus £997.50 plus £1,900. One long email and two phone calls. Have already said I really dislike it, but it pays the bills and keeps people happy.

Don't do something you don't like doing because it is not worth it. You convert your positive energy into something more neutral.

350k social media influencer.

I used to earn 16k 4 years ago as a receptionist.

How do you structure your income @platesandcups

Bit of a contradiction there IAm. You dislike what you do but then tell people not to do something they don’t like!

Some of these salaries are mind boggling. I work in marketing in financial services and earn £65k +7k. I wish I'd had the sense to enter financial services earlier in my career. I'm 40. The salaries are much higher than in other sectors

I haven’t followed this thread much over the last couple of days, but I I’ve just seen some posters stating that posted your salary if it’s high means you’re bragging.

I’m certainly not bragging. I work in financial services tech, South East, where salaries as aligned somewhat to the revenue you generate for your firm.

I like threads like this - It’s really important for women to demonstrate that high(er) salaries are attainable. I run a mentoring program for younger women in my industry, where i advise them to get over the feeling that they should be grateful for earning well.

Certainly they should feel fortunate for their overall circumstances, but they should never feel grateful, as there will sure as hell be a man earning twice as much for half the job nearby.

Apologies for crap typing.. wine fingers!

@platesandcups What a huge leap! Would you mind me asking how you got into being a SM influencer, whether you enjoy it and what your target audience is?
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