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

[CareerInspirationRequired]

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.

HR Advisor in a specialist area of HR. I didn't have any related experience when I got into this.

Civil servant Grade 7 - London. Well it’s just over £50k FTE but I only do 4 days so I’m on £40k so I’m lying really * I could do the same job in the private sector for double though so I wouldn’t recommend a move to the civil service for higher pay!*

Public sector salaries feel much better out of London, my department also pays £50k for grade 7 and that's the National rate. It's a very good salary where we live. My role can pay more in the private sector but would be London based which would then be outweighed by housing costs!

You can earn that in teaching once you've worked up the payscales (takes 10-12 years normally) and head of a core department/big responsibility. I'm second in science and at the top of the pay scale and I don't quite earn that much. Or go into senior leadership. But teaching is very different to it what when I started, I wouldn't really want to be new into it now as I only really enjoy it because I'm experienced enough to be able to navigate the crap bits and not let them get me down too much!

Operational risk management one of the big banks

Forgot to mention I'm in the Midlands, salary is £63k. Don't have a degree.

Train driver, no qualifications required but a super competitive selection process and you'll be on 60k+ after max 1 year training.

Great job if you are OK with shift work and your own company.

Head of Service Delivery for an IT company - £65k, Lincolnshire. But that was a deliberate climb down from Head of Technology (my previous role) in a different company for £120k + 35% bonus.

No degree. (Well, I do have a degree but it's in an unrelated subject and I just got it last year for my own amusement so not relevant.)

Manager in financial services.

I'm surprised, OP, that many people would think you earn about twice 30k in HE. But then again I used to work in HE (in admin) so know what the pay is like!
People I know on more than 50K (in London)… very few. A friend who's in communications, with big corporate clients. One person on quite a bit more, in investment banking. That's it really.
I earn OK on paper (35–40K) but I'm freelance, so it varies; and any holiday/pension/sick pay etc I want has to come out of what I make, and there's no security.

OP - lots of jobs in data science, coding, software development and lots of free or subsidised training at the moment - short term turnaround too - look at Girls Code First for example

Embezzler. Varies from year to year.

Finance Director...6 figures plus bonus/shares etc. home based, South Coast

94k basic salary plus up to 20% cash bonus (typically pays out 10%) & a further 10% in shares. Pension contrib double match.

Accountant, work in finance team of a blue chip co. I'm sort of mid level job terms of seniority. Quite junior people would get 50k and outside london.

@thedancingbear

Embezzler. Varies from year to year.

😂

@GrealishHairband

I’m a decision maker. 60k+ for a 4 day week. Really enjoy it but not sure what comes next as am still relatively young in my career.

Forgive me, what is a decision maker as a career?

Accountant in a London practice.

I also know Army officers on over £50k, IT managers, legal consultants, barristers etc who earn far more than me!

Consulting.

I'm surprised you say there's no opportunity for progression with that. I'm in humanities research with a large social science element and have worked a number of HE roles, current one is purely research/writing/publication but I'm also a qualified lecturer. There are plenty of opportunities for paygrade progression, its just that a lot of them involve doing things that aren't worth it to me - I want to write, not manage people. Any opportunity to teach/lecture at all? Can you get your Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy? (I think its called HEAdvance now). This should open up a lot of doors and you can do it on the job.

Management consultancy. Oop norf.

Bored out of my brain, need a new career, but the money and lifestyle keep me sucked in.

@CrouchEndTiger12 it’s someone who makes decisions on behalf of an organisation 😏

I can’t go too much more into detail than that tbh as there aren’t too many of us. But essentially say you get thousands of referrals of business a year regarding a particular aspect of the business, I am the person who decides whether those referrals meet the set criteria for moving forward to the end stage of the process or whether they get halted with me. I have some other functions but essentially, yep, I make decisions on a daily basis. I have to stack up evidence and act within set statutes and legal tests to ensure strict fairness.

I would earn that if worked FT (I work 4 days a week instead). I'm an academic.

Dh earns closer to 100K. He is a company director of his own business (which is in a trade).

Personal assistant in finance

Software engineering.

Pharmaceutical scientist. I’m an ex-pat in Switzerland though and I have a PhD in chemistry, so probably not helpful for your own particular situation!

@CareerInspirationRequired

I'm currently in HE (social sciences) and I'm in another big UK city (not London). Thanks everyone for the ideas. Please keep them coming.

OP I'm in HE policy and earn over £50K (mid-level)