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.

Senior Education Adviser, Local Authority, £52,000 - 30 years with the LA from being a newly qualified teacher.

Galling that academy trust CEO's earn more than double that - usually around £120,000 for half the schools I'm responsible for!

Work in finance" is a very broad area so hard to generalise. My son's friend who is a quant did some kind of maths type degree at Warwick and had good results. Another who is a trainee accountant as a leading accountancy firm read a degree not relating to finance at a good university and is now working and doing exams which is what you do as to get to ICAEW. Other people just do book keeping and really only need to be able to add up I suppose. One of our family manages funds - investment stuff, decides where people invest etc. For that it is similar - get a good degree from the best place you can get into and have high exam results and joint the graduate programmes once you finish your degree - there is a lot of competition for those jobs however as pay is so high.

[quote name6785]@SourAppleChew do you have to go away over night frequently for that role? My DH is trained and interested in that but after years of going away for months (military) I was hoping he'd find a civi job that didn't involve going away too much![/quote]
Hi there.

It depends if he's talking about HIAB trucks (flatbed truck with small crane on back where you actually carry stuff like bricks on the truck to deliver) or a proper mobile crane where it's just a crane used to lift generally much heavier stuff.

With the former you generally deliver within a set radius and are home every night. Often decent hours as you'll be delivering to building sites which close say 4pm (as opposed to arctic drivers doing 12 hr shifts). In the winter you might only do a six hour day but still get paid full salary.

My mate has only had his HIAB license two months and is on about £35k. Reckons £40k easily achievable wirh experience, delivering things like generators.

Proper crane trucks are where the money is at though, and I know a guy whose 24yo son is on £50k. Landed on his feet! However, more likely to have nights out. Nothing like the months away you mention though. Maybe travelling a few hours and staying over in a hotel. It's less graft as you're often sitting around waiting for perfect wind conditions or for site to get everything else ready before doing the lift. Sometimes you only do 30 mins lifting over two days with the real heavy stuff.

The progression is near endless as they go right up to the ones that can lift 1200 tons where guys are seeing silly money.

@chachachachachange - I’m a Director in a global corporate finance company. I got a first in PPE and then did three years studying for ICAEW. Twenty years later most of my work is with international clients.

Top of Grade 9 academic
£63k
I think I hit £50k about eight years after finishing my PhD (in my field it takes eight years to get to the qualification stage as well)

Ofsted registered childminder, 4 x days £50,000

Childminder always surprises me as all the family members I know who do full time childminding don’t get anything like a decent wage for the responsibility involved

Glad there’s some out there being paid somewhat fairly

Consultant in the construction industry.

@Shoulddobetta123 really? My sister does 5 days and earns minimum wage

Train signaller

@BoffinMum

Top of Grade 9 academic £63k I think I hit £50k about eight years after finishing my PhD (in my field it takes eight years to get to the qualification stage as well)

Same.

I'm a Product Manager with 7 years experience and extra experience in the field of software I'm product managing. I earn £55k. Super interesting job planning how best to solve people's needs with software. You work with developers and need to understand the main principles of software development and delivery but not any particular code. It's hugely varied and very interesting, problem solving, innovating, negotiating, analysing, listening, empathising, strategising and planning.

Not me, but husband - £120k+ as an IT contractor. We met at work when we were doing the same job (pensions analysts) but he made a career change that's proven pretty successful longterm, despite IR35 making contracting less viable. He just negotiated a higher daily rate to off-set the additional tax.

Senior police officer with over 20 years in the job

I've over 40 years childcare experience, qualifications etc, built my childminding practice up over 30 years and live in the capital. I don't charge as much as a lot of other minders either.

I’m in The south west and a boutique hotel/ restaurant manager on £58k plus bonus of about 40% salary I’ve been in the industry for about 8 years but it’s very much a case of if your good you do get paid well. I love my job it is stressful and hard work at times though.

[quote Laaaaa]@Shoulddobetta123 really? My sister does 5 days and earns minimum wage[/quote]
If you look after 4 kids at £6 an hour 10 hours a day for 4 days that would be £50k (I think)

But there are also some big operations eg ones with staff helpers where they might have 12 or more kids

@GrealishHairband what does a decision maker entail?

IT - manager of managers - manage teams that turn data into information that people can use.
No degree.
Not London
Financial services

90k base
c.20% bonus
Family Healthcare
Life assurance
DC Pension (9% from employer + 7% match Contribution + Low fees)
Work from home 3-4 days per week (pre-covid)

That's true but I imagine their overheads would be more too

@stabinthedark0 I’ve elaborated on a few posts in the thread

At least around a G6 or above then ?

Senior Recruiter… Not far off £50K

Started off as a recruitment administrator 12 years ago on little more than minimum wage and I have tripled my salary since then.

Software / product development. Some coding, some project management, some UX, whatever needs to be done.

Used to be a Nanny - got up to £120k, but that was working abroad.
Now run an agency, between £120-£500k depending on the year.
Damn hard work though that does not lend itself to social life or family life.

IMO there's not enough information out there to young people about what industries to go into - careers advice is shocking in the UK