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.

What's wrong with teaching and nursing Shylatte

Lawyer, 6 figure salary.

DH also privately educated and the same.

Interesting to compare my DH and his school friends (all private, same school, same age)

DH - financial advisor £45k
Friend 1 - took family dairy farm
Friend 2 - took over family accountancy business
Friend 3 - took over family car business
Friend 4 - HR director, highest earner

Grammar. Bang on national average salary in my early 50s, it's the most I've ever earned.

I think whats clear from this thread is that private/grammar school affects what you see as a high or low salary.

Just to balance it out. Of my five closest friends, who all went to state school, we each earn between £50 and £150k.

About £150k NHS, remainder private work.
I do emergency work so night shifts not common and 72 hour weekends.

34yo work part time (27hrs) at a school managing data/exams £27k - I'm not career oriented at all, but went to private and a grammar and it gave me a lot more than a salary/career path.

@OxanaVorontsova

I'm relatively poorly paid (50k)

Since when is 50k poorly paid??

Honestly, some people live in La La land. It would literally change my life to earn £50k. You are not "relatively poorly paid".

I'm 56 and went to a 'bog standard' girls' Grammar school.

Twenty years ago my salary was £50k with £20k bonus. But I packed it in to become a SAHM.

My DM and DGPs moved house so that I could go to a Grammar. Being honest the aim even back then wasn't about big salaries, it was about enjoying education without it being disrupted by those who didn't care. We went to university to study subjects that were interesting without having to think about what job it lead into.

@OxanaVorontsova

I'm relatively poorly paid (50k)

Since when is 50k poorly paid??

I meant compared to the people who went into the milkround and now manage hedge funds.

Attended a grammar, I'm 30 with a salary of £45k as a project manager.

State Grammar, 60 yrs old, £85k.
Son was at private, just started 1st graduate job at £30k. I expect he will earn more than me within 5 years.

28. State grammar. I work in NHS and get paid 50k.

DH went to selective comprehensive, no degree. Earns 60k+.

I went to a grammar. My peers run from city quants who own half the south-east, through NHS consultants, reiki teachers and paramedics and bus drivers.

The HAPPIEST ones are actually the lower earners because they seem to be following the path they WANT to take.

Love to know what all these projects to be managed are ? Did you need a degree to do it ?

I’m astonished by these salaries mentioned. We’re in London:
DH - 50s- public school and Oxford. 27k.
DD - 22 - private school, and top uni. NMW.
Me - 50s - comprehensive and top uni. 35k.

Honestly, only on Mumsnet does someone say 'I am relatively poorly paid and earn £50k'

I went to a grammar school and earn just over £10 per hour as a charity shop manager .

DH went to grammar school and earns approx £60k which he considers is a very good salary.

We love very comfortably - mortgage paid off etc.

58, GS, £40k, degree holding HCP, but it could be rather higher if I was remotely interested in management or more ambitious.

DH earns enough that I don't feel the need to earn more.

I think the ability to get into a good, proper degree course (and we all know what I mean by that!) is obviously increased by GS given they take smarter DC, and by less selective private schools with more 1:1 teaching which gets at least one grade higher per exam than that DC might otherwise have achieved in a 'big standard comp'.

Live not love

Grammar school, 46, work in the NHS earning £60k.

43 Local Government Accountant £39k

I was on over 100K before leaving to have dc
It could have been more, I said I didn't want to go for partnership as I didn't think I'd be able to do that plus have dc

Had a scholarship to a prestigious private school in SW London. Highest salary I’ve ever had was £28k for a senior marketing position in 2007. I then develop severe autoimmune issues and haven’t worked since…..! I hated every moment of my private school life. Before that I went to state school and desperately wanted to get into the private school so sat the exams etc for the scholarship but once I was there I felt so out of place and hated the pressure.

NHS - 47000 however I have had a few years out due to health reasons.

I reckon if I hadn't have swapped schools for sixth form I would be doing way better financially and mentally

Ex private school girl, work for a cannabis seedbank, part-time, earn around 26k. For me happiness and fulfillment are far more important than a fancy job and salary.