If you attended private/grammar school, what is your job role and salary?

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Extremely nosey I know and obviously no one is obliged to share. But I'm just intrigued as it seems many are quite desperate to get their children into the best private or grammar school, but I just wondered what kind of jobs and salaries students from these schools go on to actually have? I know that education provides children with far more than just a path to a specific job and salary, but I do think many send their children to these schools for this reason.

And I've met people who in one breath are proud that they'd never employ a privately-educated individual 'because it's unethical' and then in the next tell me that I should go and get a job I jointly own a consulting company - I honestly cannot tell you what school any of our very talented consultants attended - I don’t look near schools on their cvs or their middle class hobbies.
One of my friends was an admissions tutor for a Russel Group - he refused to offer to private school kids - saw them as inferior and spoon fed. He was relieved of his admissions responsibilities quite quickly!😂

I hear what you're saying @Xenia but your experience is not the norm.

Agree about the limited choices that men have. The relentless requirement to work, work, work with little option to go part-time or take time off is a heavy burden.

I think private school often dictates the type of university you attend.

I went to a rural Grammar School 1977 to 1984. Didn't work while my children were small - career break 1995 to 2009. Retrained as a social worker 2 years. 10 years later earning £33k working in adult mental health... Long hours, a lot of sadness n pressure, few resources, pay has gone down in real terms every year... It's a vocation not a money spinner...

@DallasDerby I'd love to know what the requirements are to become a consultant!

Grammar school left 2002
Now 28
Earn £95k
3 kids

@Boltonbabe Something's not adding up there...

@Boltonbabe what kind of job do you do?

State grammar, top GCSE and A Level results, and I'm a primary school teacher on 29k. I have mental health problems and social anxiety so was never going to be a high flyer.

Private day school. Lawyer. Have just taken a much lower paid job(£70k) but it’s part time and I work 9-5 now. If I carried on the trajectory I was on at 30 I would be on around £300k now (but wouldn’t have a life outside of work and would be divorced). I was the first in my family to go to university- my dad left school at 14.

I didn’t go to private school but DP did. He works for the railway and he earns £37k

Went to grammar school.
Was a teacher, retired 20 years ago, earning around £30,000.

50, went to a single sex grammar school (state)
I'm on 6 figures, tech industry.

I'm also a single mum.

DH went to private then state. I went to state then private.
Both of us were on six figure salaries once we hit our late 30s.
Was one of most stressful periods of my life.
Now in mid 40s. I still do bits of consultancy work. DH worked in finance so has been able to retire/do his own thing too. Sent DD to private not so much for salary outcome but for the network. Also simply because I was working every hour that God sent and smaller classes x more teacher attention = less homework nightmares for me at 9pm….well in theory…then covid happened and I still ended up teaching quadratic f*ing equations!

31, earn base salary of £156k (not including bonus), work in finance, have a Masters in engineering.

I don’t think that “people who went to grammar school” are a homogenous lump. My own class at the local grammar over 40 years ago ended up in a very wide range of jobs and salaries - ranging from millionaire company director, hospital doctor and airport manager, to social worker, fork lift truck repairer, airport ground staff, bank clerk, shop assistant and a prostitute!
I think home circumstances, personality, luck and opportunity had more bearing than the school.

[quote 68degreesnorth]@DallasDerby I'd love to know what the requirements are to become a consultant! [/quote]
You need to be flexible, comfortable with change and uncertainty, be open minded, have excellent people skills, value relationships, work collaboratively, low ego - be humble, rely on your team, work hard, be fiercely organised and prepared to go the extra mile to deliver a fantastic result, excellent communicator - you make the complex sound simple. After all that be talented in the area you want to consult in. That’s us - that’s the kind of person we are looking for - schooling means nothing.

Mid-30s, private school educated, parents split part way through and dad left us all with debt and not a lot else. I was one of the poorest there (in the time of Assisted places). My mother did all she could to keep me there. I earn just under 100k heading up a professional services department for a software company. Took 5 years out to be a SAHM which did/has impacted my career.

DH, same age, grammar school educated. Didn't do well in A-levels, didn't go to uni. Company director - 300k+ annual take home.

We are privately educating our kids, but not so they end up with high salaries - we want them to have choices, and we want them to be happy, whatever the salary. Thinking back to my class mates, everyone has a real mix of careers and salaries.

Sorry I'm not 28 am 38!! Typo

I think there's a big difference between Grammar and Private.

I went to grammar but from a working class background, working class town, just I'm academically bright so passed the 11+ and went to the grammar school in my town.

Real mix of jobs from the people in my class that I'm still friends with. Even the ones who went on to oxbridge none of them are huge high flyers really.

My best friends husband earns the most of anyone I know really. She went the to grammar I did but now is a occupational therapist in the NHS so doesn't earn huge.

He dropped out of the local comp before a levels. Never did well in school but liked computers and earns loads now.

So I don't think grammar education has a huge difference to non grammar state school.

Can't comment on private but I am considering for my daughter as I worry about her (SEN) being easily led astray in a comprehensive. She's very bright so would like her surrounded with kids and teachers who will respect her and expect her to reach her potential.

Boarding school, engineer around 70k no tax with housing school fees etc provided

Local comprehensive school. Now 27 and earn £35,000 as a gov analyst. Husband went to a local comp too - he's now 30 and earns £84,000 as business lead.

A few people from my school did well but most didn't, especially in comparison to friends I have that went to private and grammar. I absolutely hated comp, had a horrible time and couldn't wait to get out.

@DallasDerby thank you! I'm wondering how you show/prove your talents in a particular area... In my current career for example, I own a business, so would the proof be in your annual turnover, expected growth and number of employees? If anyone looked at my business from those perspectives it's not very successful, but in other ways it is a successful business nevertheless. See what I mean?

68 depends why you are trying to prove them. Eg I kept my law firm at one person as I could not care less if other people think I am ha huge firm with a big glossy office. I know other City lawyers however for whom that is the thing - to get up the office in the big glass fronted place, have a secretary serving their tea and show off they have 6 people working for them (and they prefer that even if it means they have less money than I do as they have the over heads).

However for the purposes of an investor who might buy a business assessing success or rather value of the company is a very different issue and a very skilled task involving a lot of due diligence, contracts etc etc.

There is another thread on the back of this one about how you spend all this money once you are on £100k (it is certainly not hard once HMRC have loads of it back and you are paying for full time childcare for 3 children under 4 as we were at one point.....)

Grammar. I work in the third sector as senior management and make around 45k. DH went to public school on an academic scholarship and works in logistics and ops management on £55k.

Neither of our parents paid for our education so it was probably worth it.