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

[Z3lda]

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.

@HopeHappy

I'm sorry to derail the thread but I earn around 60000 and take home @ 3300 net monthly. I'm public sector and there's pension contributions etc . Can you say a bit about how you are 60000 on paper but take home over 4500 ( sorry I can't remember the exact number you gave ). I assume you mean you actually earn a lot more but get it down to 60000 'on paper'.
If you are able to explain a little I'd be interested.

@Waferbiscuit

This has been an interesting but depressing read. What I've learned from this is not that a private education guarantees high salaries but rather that men, irrespective of how poor or good their education, will make more money than women!

Male privilege wins every time!

So true. A really depressing read.

Imagine thinking a child's education is only about 'getting a job'.

Also amazed at the amount on 27-40k. That is an intolerable salary and you need to negotiate a raise, and if you don't get it, quit and move on. Don't believe the claptrap about your role being so socialised no one else will ever have you. That's just what shit bosses say to stop you leaving.

@ShabsLovesTiff

500k a year 😱

Send me some I only earn 12-16k a year if I work full time!!

I live in the north east of England and live in a council house desperately tying for a baby and struggling would love to try via ivf but costs are way to high for me!

You lot all on high paying wages or incomes probably never known what it’s like to struggle or have the past that I have and traumas etc? You should all think yourselves lucky that you had the opportunity to go to a private school or have private education I was born in 1986 my mother didn’t work and my father was a taxi driver we scraped by then my mother left my dad met other people went on to having 6 kids and being a single mum of 6 with only state money coming in! We didn’t have luxuries of any kind or a chance to go into the Privste sector of education and to say for example “we only bring in 200k a year” or “500k a year”makes me sick. Especially looking out on the state of the country/world what’s happening in it, that you lot probably can’t see thru your special rose tinted glasses and protective bubbles.

Going to stop ranting now because these comments are appalling and sickening me.

My parents were poor too. I didn't whinge about it, though, just did well at school and got a job paying better than 12k. Then another. Then another.

You can't go blaming your upbringing forever. Instead of 'struggling in a council house trying for a baby' (how is that going to help you?) you could look into retraining and seeking a high paid position.

Mid 30s, went to private schools, NHS on 27k, am in a training role having changed career multiple times. Had multiple serious illness and injury so way behind career wise.

@Idony

Also amazed at the amount on 27-40k. That is an intolerable salary and you need to negotiate a raise, and if you don't get it, quit and move on. Don't believe the claptrap about your role being so socialised no one else will ever have you. That's just what shit bosses say to stop you leaving.

Please tell this to the NHS we are on set banding and a qualified nurse is 27k in an area that tops up with fringe payment! How we are meant to live though I have no idea. On my area I don't even earn enough to rent without a guarantor

Haha not whinging stating a fact..

Didn’t really consider myself to be poor as you’ve put it lol.. but yes I am compared to these comments, I’ve trained a lot and changed careers etc but nothing I do will get me a job that pays much more.

Unfortunately you forget you tell me I’m poor so you should know that I can’t afford more further education

Oh and almost forgot I said I was struggling to conceive not I’m struggling because I live in s council flat

@Idony
Imagine thinking a child's education is only about 'getting a job'.
I trained as a primary school teacher but partly due to circumstances, I only returned to it for a short time after having our children. So my role in life was mainly to educate the next generation of bankers (not exactly, but close), social workers (again, not exactly, but close) and journalists. And it was a career I'm very glad I followed! I had lots of outside interests and was never bored - and, yes. I know I was extremely privileged.

Direct grant grammar that went private in the mid-70s.
Work in IT, current annual salary (although I am freelance) north of €150k.

@ShabsLovesTiff

500k a year 😱

Send me some I only earn 12-16k a year if I work full time!!

I live in the north east of England and live in a council house desperately tying for a baby and struggling would love to try via ivf but costs are way to high for me!

You lot all on high paying wages or incomes probably never known what it’s like to struggle or have the past that I have and traumas etc? You should all think yourselves lucky that you had the opportunity to go to a private school or have private education I was born in 1986 my mother didn’t work and my father was a taxi driver we scraped by then my mother left my dad met other people went on to having 6 kids and being a single mum of 6 with only state money coming in! We didn’t have luxuries of any kind or a chance to go into the Privste sector of education and to say for example “we only bring in 200k a year” or “500k a year”makes me sick. Especially looking out on the state of the country/world what’s happening in it, that you lot probably can’t see thru your special rose tinted glasses and protective bubbles.

Going to stop ranting now because these comments are appalling and sickening me.

It's a very unfair assumption to conclude that no one currently earning a high salary knows what it's like to struggle. Many people I know have come from rough single parent backgrounds, lived in council houses and scraped by during education. They used their struggles as a push for better and never wanted their children to have the same upbringing as them. My father, for instance, grew up in a council house in Hull and his mother chucked him out at 15. He lived with distant relatives, worked extremely hard on the fish docks whilst finishing school, went to university (much cheaper those days though) and is now a senior advisor to the Gov in London. He could have spent his younger struggling years saying how unfair it all was, but he never did. He now uses his background to push for a better life for those less fortunate.

State grammar school.

Work for a financial services company in their Risk department. Head up a team of specialists in our field. £104k plus bonuses.

I’m the one who posted being on £500k.
To clarify, I’ve experienced a ton of trauma and abuse and have pretty poor health. I’m disabled. I grew up in a single parent family and now I’m a single parent myself.
My life experiences have only ever pushed me on to achieve and prove people wrong.
I’m so grateful for my job and the stability it gives me and my dc and have tried to give back through volunteering my time with multiple charities and mentoring.