To ask how much you were earning at 25yrs old and also at 35yrs old?

[MrsSimonBasset]

Call me nosey but at 25 I’d not quite got into the sector I’m in now and at 35, I’d already started on my career path. Went to university, had my kids afterwards, but was done by the time I was 30yrs old. I’ll start £19,000 and £30,000. I will admit that it has accelerated since. But more interested in those crucial child rearing years between 25-35.

Surely these numbers are pretty meaningless without knowing the year? 20k in 1980 is very different to 20k in 2020.

25 - £16,500 working full time in a nursery
33 (now) - £10,500 working part time in an office/call centre.

I can't really remember. At 25 I was just about to get married and at the bottom of my scale so maybe £17,000. At 35 I had 2 children and was part time and now at top of scale so I think it was still around £17,000.

However at 37 I got a new full time job and 5 years later I'm on £35,000.

25 - 25k
35 - 35k

Unfortunately the pattern won't continue as I'm now retraining so will probably go back and repeat!

At 25 I was living in Australia and earning great money working in bars with free meals and accommodation - earning around $1100 a week after tax. Id only work 8 weeks or so and then go travelling for a month so no idea what I was actually earning a year. They were great times with no worries though!

At 26 I moved to Ireland and became a mature nursing student and I was broke, had about €220 a week. Spent the week in college and then worked 2 x 12 hour shifts at the weekends in a nursing home.

Now I'm 33 and earning about 57k a year as a nurse. Thats around €770 a week after tax and pension etc.

I earned £26000 at 25

Now at 32 I earn £60k

Same industry, a few promotional leaps.

25 about 8k - part time with small kids.

35 20k - full time but training. Will go up quite a bit when I qualify.

25at 25 I earns 21,000 as a new teacher with recruitment and retention allowance (shit school)

At 35 I was part time but FTE was £35,000 so I was prob on £21,000 again lol

I'm now 43 and I'm working a half timetable at the top of the pay scale in a Surrey school (London fringe) and earning....£21000 lol FTE is just over £42,000

Just to
Add I had my first child at 29 so part time from then onwards.

25: £25k
35: Maybe £10k, was SAHM, part time self employed. (Had been on £39k at age 31)
48: £38k

I did a series of low paid part time jobs in my early 30s- early 40s after having DC at 31, 33 & 37. Conscious decision as really wanted to be at home while DC little. Loved it and it was a precious decade but I was earning £39k when I was 31 and still haven't got quite back to that level now aged 48. No regrets but the impact of childrearing on salary is clear. My choice though and I feel very lucky I had that option.

In aus $

25 - $40,000 (not for profit)
35 - $95,000 (government)
40 (now) - $135,000 (private)

25 £22k
35 £65K
45 £0

25: 10k (part time as DD was a toddler)
35: 42k (worked my arse off in between times!)

£1200pm after tax and then £1300 I'd after tax.

25 - 10K
35 - 35k

I was a civil servant and had 2 children between those ages and a marriage break up. I got steadily promoted 4 grades over those years. I've remained at the same grade since but my salary is about £15k more (over 13 years).

At 25 - £18k (civil service, 1999). I did get promoted up a grade the following year to £24k.

At 35 - £52k (junior solicitor, 2009)

In between those years I left the civil service and trained as a solicitor so my salary went down again, then up to £34k when I qualified and up again when I switched firms. I also had a baby at 30 which probably slowed the trajectory a bit though I had short ML and went back FT.

I'm now on £100k + bonus (partner) and have two children, the second born at nearly 40. I work so hard, so many hours (nearly 70 this week plus home schooling) that I sometimes regret going for partnership. I was on £83k + bonus as an Associate age 43 and had a much better work/life balance.My husband worked out yesterday that I now actually get paid less per hour!

25 in 2000 £30k plus bonus
35 -working as a TA 10kish but termtime only
46 - 26k but with v good benefits and promotion in sight

Taking time out to look after kids stopped career and always felt the right decision but now they are teenagers I feel I missed so much professional development but then again grass isn't always greener......

Hmmm..... need to think back a while!

At 25 years old, probably £30k
At 35 years old, around £55k
Am now 43.

25: £26k
35: £250k

I had three DC from 31-35 but got lucky with employer and industry (moved from journalism to finance)

At 25 I was in University and working part time there too, so under 8k, I think? when I finished Uni I went into a job that paid 3/4K less than I earned before starting University, thanks Recession
At 35 I was a sahm volunteering at a school so my earnings were £0! If you’d said 38 I’d be able to say 10k part time hours, soon to be 22k full time with a permanent contract.
None of the above is how I expected work and wage to be when I was blithely discussing jobs and the future as a teen!

At 25 probably £25k

At 35 £80k

Now £45k (had a baby and couldn’t be arsed chasing the money and all the crap that comes with it so took at step back)

25 - £27k
Had first DD just before my 30th birthday, when my salary was £32k. Back then, (2003), private sector mat leave provision wasn’t half as generous as it is now, so I had just 6 months maternity leave, and went back to work full time.

34 - earning £40k when I had DD2, 6 months mat leave, then back again full time.

Now 47 and on 80k, have been promoted to board level and am due another significant raise.
So those crucial child rearing years as you put it, were a whirl of working and travelling, juggling nurseries, schools, sick days and building in time with my girls.
My DD’s are now teens, very self sufficient, and both incredibly driven and focussed to succeed. Having children doesn’t always mean it will impact your career.

Age 25 = £19k per annum temp job
Age 35 = £35k per annum Banking sector job.

I'd ideally like to have gained my next promotion grade by 45, where would be on approx £55k, but not sure if that will happen with the pandemic and the current global financial situation.

25 £26000
35 £40000
40 £57000

New teacher to experienced teacher to senior teacher.

25: £30k
35: £95k plus bonus

Had a child early 30s, did another professional qualification before that. I think getting as far as you can pre-children, and being around to be in the right place at the right time for opportunities that came my way, was crucial. Worked hard but also was fortunate to work for a good company who promoted internally.

Now trying to figure out what to order to do things next: a new job or another baby? Might depend how long the baby thing takes.

IMO that’s one of the rubbish ways women get trapped at a certain level/company during some of their most critical years: decide to try for a baby, don’t know when it might happen, reluctant to move roles in the meantime as then they would lose very valuable company maternity pay rights in the process.