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.

You could just watch the Seven Up! documentary and the following 8 Up episodes, filmed by Michael Apted.

@2reefsin30knots

I'm relatively poorly paid (50k) but I chose a specialist role that is interesting to me. Our combined household income is about 200k, but neither of us 'went for the money'. Good academic CV does give you those choices. You don't have to attend an independent school to have a good academic cv.

This post is hilarious.

I went to a girls grammar school, I’m 61, semi retired and my highest salary was £45k ten years ago.
In comparison, my sister went to a secondary modern school, is 63, semi retired and her highest salary was also £45k 5 years ago.
One of my brothers also went to grammar school, has only had minimum wage jobs and is now living on benefits.
The other brother went to a comprehensive school and has his own business. He isn’t wealthy - still needs to work at 58.

Both DH and I had part of our education private and part state. We are both in professional roles and comfortable but certainly not wealthy by any standard. Most of those I went to school with are in professional, stable careers but not very high earning such as teachers.

PP has hit the nail on the head earlier when they said majority who had professional parents and were were privately educated will not be able to do same for their children despite being in very similar profession to their parents.

My reasoning for paying for private for my children is not for them to become high earners but for them to have the confidence to be able to do what they want to do. Money can come and go depending on circumstances, luck etc (as current pandemic has clearly highlighted) but their education cannot be removed from them. I hope that means they would be able to pick themselves up and find an alternative at ease if the situation did arise

It varies my DS went private, he and his friends are all 25 now.

One friend stepped into a job with goldman and sachs having been working their as an intern during uni. He worked hard and it was highly competitive to get that opportunity. He bought his own flat in the city (london) when he was 22. Earns well over 100k now

Another plays cricket and is in the england team

Another played professional rugby but now runs his own business

My niece was privately educated and is studying to be a lawyer.

My DS however is on a low paid job, he never had real aspirations apart from joining the army. This did not happen due to being injured playing rugby. He has now got army office board in a month and has his heart set on that. So we will see

In my 60's, went to grammar school. Then the local secondary schools around me were awful, not just bad education/ expectations but violent with little control over the older pupils. The expectation was that everybody should expect to earn their own living and improve themselves. Marriage and children not looked down on but not seen as enough. All of us went on to some kind of further education, whether university or career focussed. I think schools choices even now depend on what the other options are.

DH is an Academic and is on just over 60k. He dabbles with investing as well, he made enough one year to pay off the mortgage when we were mid thirties.

The most well paid person we know is a city boy on hundreds of thousands a year he went to a real shit school not even a bog standard comp. They met at University reading for their Doctorates.,

A woman at my work was very keen to tell us she went to ‘xyz school’ when she started at our company, as if it was something to be be proud of. (She went all through secondary school, not sure if she went to primary too)

The irony is, we we’re all wondering if her parents were upset that at 25, she was in a job that A - doesn’t require any qualifications at entry level and B - it wasn’t much more than the minimum wage pay wise.

She wasn’t a particularly nice person and most of the staff thought she was a pain as she kept taking about money etc……

I’d be gutted if I was her parents. What a waste of money!

Grammar school. About $250k

I was planning to be a partner in a City law firm (where they currently take about £2m a year) but they didn't want me - their loss so I work for myself. I didn't mention age on my post above - I am in my 50s and have worked full time without a break since 1983, even for babies - I worked until in labour and then took 2 weeks (yes weeks not months) of annual leave and then back full time.

The richest girl (in 2021 anyway) from our class at day private school married a man who is now a billionaire in London where they live with the children as far as I know. She didn't like academic work at school however has done extremely well in the field of the arts and has an OBE and is in the top 20 for wealth in her own right in the UK, never mind her husband's wealth. No one in my school days would have necessarily expected that of her. It is hard to predict how people will do although I suppose women have more choices than men in the sense they can earn their own fortune and/or marry someone rich. I don't think that she had an arranged marriage but they were both from Jewish families and it sounds like a good match. Probably the girl in my class inherited some wealth from her parents too as father was in business and mother worked too.

I also went to school with someone in my class at school who had and still has title from a NE very old money family but in those sorts of families the girls get just about no money and the oldest son gets it all and she left our school for boarding school at 13. She lived on a 7000 acre estate as a child. She was the daughter of a Baron (I was never invited there as she was not in my group of friends).

Lots of the rest have lived fairly ordinary lives, nurses, teachers, housewives, small business owners, one owns 200 acres and some holiday lets but that is not very profitable - farm land doesn't always bring money with it these days.

Private/International school, then Grammar School, 41. BMS degree, then worked in hospital labs. Then back to uni to retrain as a nurse. I'm a B6/Sister now (£32K). My parents told me to always choose a job/career that I loved. They said it didn't matter the job you did, as long as you earned an honest wage, and loved what you do. I've worked for the same Trust since '98 (joined them doing part time work when I was an undergrad). I love it.

It was a local private school

Went to a grammar school. Chartered accountant on £47k at 29. Just got a new job though, salary TBC but 54-61k and I will just about be 29 still when I start. DH went to a local comp, is 32 and on £36k but does have the opportunity of bonus.

Went to both (one of the best grammar's in the country actually then on to top London Uni). 24 - £40k follwing 2 years on a grad scheme salary of £30k. I am a data scientist for one of the country's largest tech firms. I aim to work in multiple industries/markets.

Live with parents so am very fortunate to be a able to save and will buy a property in London next year using help to buy.

My younger sister earns slightly more as a Management Consultant. And my older sister is still in education.

My family are strong believers in investing in education, parents worked themselves almost to death to pay school fees.

** That's 16 hours a day.
Not sure I'd want you operating or advising on my surgery!
How is that even safe?**

Those are pretty standard hours for a surgeon. It’s not the same as other specialities - the actual surgeries / face to face meetings will only occur on specific days. When they’re not performing operations or seeing patients consultant surgeons do work from home a lot.

Grammar, 32, law, £160k.

DS1 decent comprehensive now age 31 on £90k digital marketing.

DS2 non selective private senior school aged 28 on £35k, recently switched from charity sector to business.

To add, I do somewhat dislike my job.

Anyway, early 40s. Run own business as a sole trader. Salary currently between £45k and £50k pa.

Went to both (one of the best grammar's in the country actually then on to top London Uni)

I really really hope that was autocorrect @meetah! Otherwise I think you might be deluded about the quality of your school…

DH, privately educated. In IT earning £80k + bonus age 38. However started out as a teacher and then retrained.

@PushyGalore

Consultant Surgeon 45 years old 80 hours a week NHS and private £250k

80 hours a week??? 😮

Private school/Oxford, 32y - Supply chain management - £52k

My grades were pretty good, but not exceptional, and I worked in the hospitality trade for years before getting into this.
Educational background not so much an issue as social skills developed after university.

Grid although the 7% private school becomes 20% at sixth form level and if you add state grammars in it is even higher and the huge % of judges etc is basically very very old people so if we took the % of new barristers in 2021 for example it would be ore like the % who go to state grammar or private school at sixth form level. ... looked it up 5% in grammar schools. As all those go to upper sixth level we can assume that stays the same at 6th form although I suppose some may move from comps to grammars so 5% may be higher.
So if we add the 5% to the 20% at fee paying schools that takes us to about a quarter at privates and grammars which is not at 25% too different from 30% Oxbridge being from those sectors I suppose.

Modest background (people like my parents could not afford to privately educate these days), private school 13-18, which I hated and didn't engage with as much as I should have, BSc, high flyer in a 'cowbow' sales role that I hated in my early 20s earning mega money, drifted for a couple of years.
Started investing in and setting up from scratch small businesses, grown from there.
I've now got a fair few quid, a lot of assets, can pay myself what I feel like and have made enough money for at least the next 2 generations.
I was a clever kid anyway but lazy and inclined to piss about so they sent me to stop that.