To ask how much you earn and what you do?

[99BehaviourProblems]

Looking for inspiration for a possible career change and I’m also really nosey curious about what people in different jobs bring home - I still have debts and bills to pay!

So I’ll kick off since I asked the question...

I make 70k gross working part time. DH is on 150k and works full time. We are both the scum of the earth lawyers.

Anyone else willing to share?

@ThreeLittleDots how do you both manage on 36k? Genuine question. Me and dh are on the same amount with a mortgage the same. We can't afford to change our cars which are ancient, can't go on holiday. I am not in poverty by any stretch, but have few luxuries and worry about how we will replace cars/ furniture when we need to.

We get less than 36k.

4 kids
4 bed house
1 car
1 motorbike
2 holidays usually a year

We live within our means. I dont know how people on more struggle but maybe higher outgoings

how do you both manage on 36k?

Our outgoings total £1100 pcm including £350 food and £400 mortgage, so that's also council tax, bills, insurance etc.

Net income on 36K as a household is £2500, so we have £1400 spare after the above.

DH has about £400 of that for his own spends and we tend to save most of the rest and spend some of it on holidays, days out etc.

Scarfaceclaw21

We both bought 8-ish year old replacement cars which are cheap to run and maintain for a few K out of our savings.

Definitely higher outgoings @

Mortgage is over £2000 per month. I know many people will be shocked at that! How I would love to go back to having a £400 mortgage - which is what I was paying towards my first flat and I’m ashamed to say I still wasn’t able to live within my means then.

I really admire people who live within their means, especially once you have had children. For me it’s always been a constant struggle, ever since university days really. DH is far more sensible with money. It’s always me suggesting the big expenses that are obviously way out of our reach, but for the betterment of the family home etc he very kindly obliged and so we went for it. We definitely don’t regret it now, as we can certainly say we have something wonderful to show for all that expense and hassle. It’s just that we will be paying for it for the next 5-10 years!

Data manager, full time. About 20k

How I would love to go back to having a £400 mortgage - which is what I was paying towards my first flat and I’m ashamed to say I still wasn’t able to live within my means then

It's only because I inherited a 50% deposit on our 4 bedroom home from my late father.

Now my problem is I have issues spending money - we could actually afford to go away more but childhood issues mean my natural default is frugality!

Pilot. $200k+

I work from home my own business, I earn about 20-22K net after tax etc per year I work about 15 hours a week.

You are really unlikely to find something suitable by moving - you would be better off looking at a different area of law - so if you are property/commercial look at something like private client that is a bit more "human".
TBH the only way you will find family friendly hours in law is by doing a "back office" job or going in house. You might also look at government/local government legal roles or working for one of the big training firms (deadly dull IME)

£32k, Sales Account Manager

@99BehaviourProblems the scheme I did was 4 years but it has been shortened now and is 2 or 3 years I think. You do get paid to train but at a lower salary. Plenty of paid study leave etc.

You might find that in house offers a platform to ultimately move away from law. Our In house team is large and contains a variety of deal lawyers, managers, project teams supporting the business, those project managing our IT etc, all of which offer opportunities to widen the skill set.

£34k for 27 hours a week as a structural engineer. But it's taken me 20 years post uni to get here.

130k as Director of Engineering. Have you considered looking at compliance (as you're a lawyer).

£38k working as an insurance claims negotiator for a major transport company. Love my job but it looks like I will be made redundant within the next 12 months.

370k. With performance bonus it should upwards of 400k this year.

Communications Manager for very large Tech firm.

It’s lovely to see the variety of jobs we all do.

£200-300 per day as a Relocation Consultant.
Only problem is the amount of work I get can be erratic but DH is a high earner (IT) so whatever I get is additional

Midwife - nowhere near enough for the stress and level of disruption this job brings to your life.

Welcome to Mumsnet where everybody is in a professional job and most people earn over £50k.

Back in the real worked, the most common salary is around £22k and one in five people earn the minimum wage!

@Mephisto

@Basketofkittens if I could uprate your comment I would. That is the world in which most people have to make their choices.

The average salary where I live is around 18k. Unless you are a professional (healthcare, teacher, solicitor etc) the jobs are minimum wage retail, hospitality or warehouse work. Admin jobs pay around 16-22k and they probably get 100 applicants.

I'm a university lecturer on £45k. It's pretty full on but really flexible.

If anyone comes here with a family friendly flexible job between 40k - 50k after only a couple of years retraining then I'll quit my job as well!

Career consultants at universities can earn 40k and you can train p/t within 2 years. Universities tend to be flexible and family friendly organisations.