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.

25 - £45k ish
35 - £75k
45 (now) - £100k+

I had DC at 34 and 36, went to 3 days pw after DC1 and increased to 4 days pw after DC2. I'm now back full time (investment banking). My salary did stagnate whilst I was part time and only really started picking up again once I went back FT.

25 about 28K
35 about 70K

I was working for a charity at 25 - 22k
Then had my first child and 3 more after that.
I'm 35 now and on 45k. On mat leave and looking to move to a role ideally on 50k.
Legal sector.

25 around £35k
35 around £68k (work a 4 day week and had 2 years of mat leave in that time DCs at 29 and 32)

I don’t know about the motives of others, but I’m trying to gauge whether having children earlier or later is better for your career.

It depends on two things Firstly, the cost of childcare. If you have family providing free childcare then you can probably have a child and continue working on any salary. If you have no family support (we didn't) then you need to earn enough to cover your childcare costs otherwise it can feel as if you are working for nothing. When the DC were small our childcare bill was over double our mortgage (NE so housing is cheap) and half my salary but I earnt above average working PT. If you keep working through the baby years you are in a much better position to keep your career going. Even if your salary stagnates for a bit you are buiding experience.

The main factor that will affect your earnings will be if the father of the child is willing to do half the childcare. I'd recommend not having a child with a man who thinks his career is more important than yours and that he can't reduce hours to work PT or work shifted hours so he can do either the drop off or pickup at childcare. Sadly men who are willing to do their fair share are rare.

25 roughly 24000
Early 30s about the same but I work part time.

At 25, I was back at uni studying but had been earning about 30k the year before that.

I’m now 31 and on 39k with a pay rise due to take me over 40k in April. I’m on mat leave now.

Hoping to be on 45k by 35.

25- about £20k
33- about £40k

No children yet, if I’m lucky and IVF works my crucial child rearing years will be in my late 30s.

25 - £25k
35 - £120k
45 - £300k
(Lawyer.)

25 - £28
30 - £50 no DC
31- £42 (part time)
35 - £46 (part time)
40 - £56 (part time)
45 - £85

25 - 24k
30 - 30k
Now 43 - 46k

I'm not far off 25 at the moment and I'm earning £31k

25- £40k
35 - £0

25 - 38, 000 (I think)
35 - 63,000

Went from being a very junior junior doctor to a very senior junior doctor - worked a lot of hours in both jobs. Had my kids at 28 and 30 and went back to work full time after.

25- about £25k
35- about £20k ( but on part time hours, full time would have been more like £35k

25- 18k in admin

31 (now) 22k part time in agriculture

0&0

SAHM all that time and more. Still am at 40. I did work part time in a care home for three years and reached the dizzying heights of min wage though

@ 25 - nothing I was in my final year at uni

@35 - £7k I'd just started my own practice part time, lost a huge chunk of the year to a baby loss and frankly it was a bit of a shit year.

However in between I had worked up to £45k pa plus benefits (health insurance & decent pension) and had been offered a directorship starting at £70kpa unfortunately I didn't want the commute (It would have meant DH & I never saw the kids) would find the international travel tricky and needed more flexibility than the job could give.

I now earn more in my own practice than that paltry £7k but not back up to those levels however I work flexibly, part time (reducing childcare costs & meaning I can spend time with the kids) and only take on projects I want to do, which has been a godsend this past 12 months.

25-£24k
33- dc , took 6m off
36-56k

At 25 I earned £30K (30 Years ago). A very decent salary.
At 30 I earned £16k- gone to be a teacher- education isn't a big earner. Our childcare was more than my take-home pay but it was a shared cost.

I am 55 and I earn £100k ish

At 25 I’d just left uni, as I went when I was 21 and was earning £13k (2002). At 35 I was earning £24k in a call centre (2012). However I had a better job at £38k when I was 32 but in the 2009 crash my role was made redundant and pretty much ceased to exist so it meant admin temping and call centre work. I gave up at 35 to have the kids. (This was central London so not sure if region skews things)

25: 10,400
32: 28,500 part time.
Had one maternity leave at 29/30, now on my 3and maternity leave at 32.

At 25 I earned £18-19k
At 35/36 I earn £24.9k

25 - about 40k per year
35 - about 75k

Now. Well of course I'm one of the mumsnet 6 figure marvels that noone believes.

25 - £13k
35 - £30k