I want a job that will pay 35-40k (leaving teaching)

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I'm a teacher, thinking about leaving the profession. I've got a 1st class education degree, and I've been teaching for a few years. Ive enjoyed it so far, but I fancy a change now.

Ideally I want a job that will lead to a 35-40k salary in the first 10 years. I've taught since graduation, so don't really have any ideas what I would like to do other than teach. I would like a job that matches or exceeds my teaching salary. Any suggestions about what I could work as? I'd rather not retrain, but wouldn't be totally adverse to a master's conversion course for the right industry/role.

I’d agree with accounting - you’d have to train but a lot of firms let you train while working part time. I have a good friend who was an English graduate and has done well as an accountant after a brief foray into sales (graduated in last 10 years).

If you have a good degree from a top tier university management consulting also has a fair few former teachers.

In completely the other direction, if you love kids and particularly if willing to travel, private tutoring or even nannying can pay extremely well for high net worth individuals. You’d have a real edge over other candidates being a qualified teacher. I have a couple of friends who did this after university and actually stuck with it for years as the pay and travel was good and you weren’t just stuck on a computer all day.

I know a op said someone would advise civil service - and so here I am.

Our Department has just taken on policy staff at G7 level (starting salary £41k I think) and some of those I recruited were ex teachers.

Worth looking at the civil service jobs site.

Go and work for Pearson developing educational content. Progress through ranks et voilà.

Education Advisory roles for Local Authority

Civil service is worth a shout

Most people who work in university Widening Participation teams are ex teachers and depending on location you could easily start on 35+

I'm in the civil service. Lots of roles 40,000 plus that might suit you.

Or how's about training to be a probation officer? You can specialise in training with staff or programmes with offenders, to help utilise your group management skills. Your English skills would help with report writing.

Or what about the YOT and work with young offenders?

Social work.

Policy team in DoE?

To follow up on the poster who said police, there's a fast track programme but it depends if you're local force offer it, you would be on more than 40k.

recruit.college.police.uk/Officer/leadership-programmes/Fast-Track-Programme/Pages/Fast-Track-Programme.aspx

baubled that is the one for serving officers, this is the one recruit.college.police.uk/Officer/leadership-programmes/Direct-Entry-Programme/direct-entry-at-inspector/Pages/Direct-Entry-at-Inspector.aspx

I think the high flying roles won’t necessarily go to someone with a degree in Education. Maths, Economics, History and sciences are more sought after from very top level universities.

Nearly every suggestion requires re training. Usually starting near the bottom along with other grad entrants. Teachers used to go into LA management. Could you do this? What else interests you? You would be giving up a great pension too and holiday entitlement.

Are you in England?

Copywriting.

What's your nearest university?

Project management could really suit you, quick qualifications and a myriad of them and if you're intelligent and able to prioritise you'll be good at it.
Can pay very well if you get a good reputation, you can earn a lot quite quickly.

PR, includes writing, pitching and all the things you mentioned. I work in PR and make more than 40k

Agree re project management or perhaps an professional services role in HE.

Agree with previous poster re not publishing! I moved from a marketing role in educational publishing to a marketing role in HE and took a considerable pay rise - and it’s not that my initial role in HE was that well paid...

CQC? I have a friend who progressed very quickly with them after leaving teaching. Not necessarily requiring previous healthcare experience apparently. Lots of policy analysis and report writing.

Another one here to say civil service. I like having ex teachers in my team - tend to be practical, good at managing difficult people, can think their way around a problem. Depends on area/department but you could certainly look at coming in on £30k+.

Civil service. I was a teacher for 5 years and entered CS as an HEO (c.£30k) which was a slight pay drop from teaching but was promoted within 6 months. Check out civil service jobs website but don’t be put off by the complicated sounding job titles- they’re big on transferable skills and I work with tonnes of ex teachers.

I'd say perhaps digital learning / e-learning. A lot of learning designers are ex-teachers. There's a clear path once you start working though it would mean a pay cut down to junior level while you work your way back up.

Professional services roles at universities is a good shout. Your skills and experience would lend itself to careers adviser/consultant but you'd probably need to do an MA first

HMRC? I manage 2 ex teachers

Yes to junior bid writer and project manager roles too. Again a pay cut but a few years and relevant qualifications and you'll be heading back up to around that salary.

Hilarious that some are suggesting Ofsted! It's extraordinarily hard to get an Ofsted job and you need at least SLT experience!

LA jobs are like hen's teeth these days, too.

Journalism.