To ask what your job is if you earn £50k plus

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Just that really!

I'm in a job that I fell into many years ago. Its OK but I'm bored. It's a professional job that many people would think earns about twice what it does. I'm on approx 30k (people are always shocked to learn this) and will be forever in this job (no real promotion open to me). Its a sector a LOT of people want to work in and in which some people will work for free. The result is we are actually paid very little - and people outside the sector are always shocked by this.

I'm considering a career change, but have no ideas what to. So if you're earning 50k plus sell me hour career. I have a degree, an MA and I'm sure lots of transferable skills.

DH earns £55k as a front end developer, will probably be on £60k+ next year. There’s lots of money in web development if you’re good - but being ‘good’ requires constantly learning new things!

I earn £35k at the moment in comms/PR. Scope to earn £50k+ within the next couple of years if I move jobs.

We’re both 30ish and live Up Norf.

@CrouchEndTiger12 you must have gone to too many parties

Solicitors don't always earn a fortune. It massively depends on area of law, size of firm and part of country. I know solicitors on 25k. Average is probably 35ish where I am.

Another civil servant here, Grade 7. I'm not in London but I am in another large UK city. I have a social sciences degree

Lots or 'strategy' jobs in multiple sectors pay well over 50k+. Strategy is a code word for attending meetings and navel gazing. Not hard, you just need a foot in a door.

Director of Business Development - but a non-sales role.

Osteopath - 4 days a week £70K

Operations manager in HR, husband manages big software implementations.

50K+ is not high, in any career, if you invest a few years working hard. The top rung in most professions would be paid much more than that.
But not everyone can reach the top rung & there aren't the same numbers of job at the rung.

Banker, now mgt consultant of my own company.

Another tech consultant here. The big enterprise tech companies are often looking to hire in domain/ industry experts (aka people from "the field") into consultative/ industry solutions roles. HE is one of those areas, at least at my company. You DO NOT have to be technical to work in tech (role dependant, obvs). You need to be an excellent communicator, good at synthesis/ analysis/ data literacy and systems thinking (all characteristics of a SS HE ed, I would think). 80-100k++ salary + bonus. Location are less important b/c big tech will maintain a work from anywhere culture.

Ops Manager at a tech start up in London. £50k but I took a £20k pay cut from previous role... I'm not necessarily driven by money, I could easily have earned the same money elsewhere but the working environment was more important to me, as well as joining a start up. That being said I have equity worth 200k.

75k, Digital Marketing for a tech start up in London. Tech pays very well - this is my second start up and I love it, but it can be very hard! I’m a year in with my current place and we still have to get figure out the exact market of our product.

Director level in non profit/charity world. Senior skilled roles in charities pay £50k+ I started earning over 50k in my mid 30s. Now 70k FTE (but I'm not full time).

Head of CRM system. London

@MaverickDanger

I have similar qualifications *@ChristinaXYZ* and it all comes down to how much you can contribute to the company’s bottom line.

My team saves our company on average £1.2 million per year in various costs. Last year, we saved the business £2.8 million and not only kept everyone’s jobs but employed a further 400 people.

That’s why I earn what I earn because of the value and impact the role has.

Equally my DH has a 2.1 from a good uni & an MSc. He earns double what I do because he is the only person in his company that can do what he does & has the experience. So they pay him a fortune to do it & also train others how to do it, who are cheaper.

As someone self-employed I am the only one contributing to my companies bottom line :-)

But someone in a caring role - looking after our elderly parents and grandparents - would be lucky to get about £22K. That is a hell of a contribution for little remuneration.

And whatever your company does it presumably charges people a lot for it. Some of those people either directly or indirectly are junior nurses and teachers, care workers, delivery drivers, supermarket workers. Even if they are not your end users they'll be suing something that pays for what your do along the line.

Being a graduate I have graduate friends in some of these jobs and I know how they use the stats to generate higher remuneration. There are a lot of smoke and mirrors being angled about. But no wonder Labour's red wall is p'd off!

Civil servant

We're too old for it to count, probably and certainly took time to get to a very comfortable position.
Our children are better comparators, I suspect. Daughter and son in law are a 28 and 29 year-old salaried GPs and also work alternate weekends in a hospice.

Our son is a military officer on a decent salary for a 26 year-old with additional perks like free sports facilities, additional pay when away from home and cheap food whilst at work,

Another psychologist like DrCAMHS . Did my time as a Local Authority Educational Psychologist finishing on 55k, and loved almost every minute.

Now in private practice. Earn about 70k for a 4 day week, term time only.

Chief engineer on an offshore production vessel. Work 12hr+ days and 24hrs on call for 3 weeks then 3 weeks home on leave. Took 10+ years to progress though the ranks with study and exams at each level.

Head of Design in a marketing/pr agency

@SmashingBlouson Just google economic consulting, research consulting, public sector etc. Not management consulting which is entirely different!

Companies eg ipsos mori, traverse, NatCen, hatch, regeneris, RSM, health foundation, RAND, grant thornton, SQW, Mott MacDonald, London economics... I could go on there are loads! I’ve seen job ads for most of these recently- lots of recruitment and common to take on academics particularly social scientists.

Read reports (google company name + evaluation to get a feel of type of work they do for public sector clients).

Fascinating work, few people have advanced statistical skills (sector needs them) so don’t let that be a barrier. You can learn on the job. Progression can be very fast. Especially if you hop between companies.

Senior Lecturer at a university approx £70k inc external examining at 2 institutions.

@saleorbouy

Chief engineer on an offshore production vessel. Work 12hr+ days and 24hrs on call for 3 weeks then 3 weeks home on leave. Took 10+ years to progress though the ranks with study and exams at each level.

Sorry to slightly derail the thread but do you like your job?

Ds is going to uni in September to study engineering geology and geotechnical, can’t remember the exact title, and his aim is to work on the rigs.

Surprisingly a cop, just a lowly lowly PC.

However, top rate, specialist role that nets an extra 5k and minimal overtime and I can hit just over 50k.