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.

Was middle management in financial services by 27, earning £50-60k plus bonus, company car etc.

Sacked it all off 7 years ago to do something I wanted to do, much more vocational, self employed, if I'm lucky I'll earn £25k in a good year nowadays

School and university aren’t as important as talent and capacity for hard work once you leave education. I know plenty of City partners who went to comps and have ‘made it’. Also plenty of public school educated medical consultants who don’t earn that much but do it because they love their jobs. There is no magic, secret way in to wealth and success other than talent and hard work. I also know many very expensively educated people who live modest, happy lives. Money and success doesn’t equal contentment.

I'm in my early 40's and went to an all girls private school.

I work 4 days a week and earn £60k as an accountant. I took a step back from the full on corporate roles when my dd was born, as the crazy hours and travel didn't work, otherwise i'd be on £150k + bonus.

DH (mid 40's) went to normal comprehensives (moved around a lot) and before he also changed careers he was on £250k + bonus in the City in a very specialist financial area. He's now a lecturer working 3 days a week on £35k.

Our dd goes to private school and ds will when he is old enough.

I grew up on a sink estate where literally every family was a single parent on benefits. I didn't know any adults with jobs or successful loving relationships. From my class at high school, about half of us started college but the rest dropped out straight away. 3 went to Uni. 2 are teachers. I'm in a non-professional role but at a senior level, earning 45k. Early 40's.

I'm trying very hard not to be an overbearing mum with my DS. Only child and currently has a tutor for the 11+. I want him to know it's all about having more options and more choice for himself.

The saddest thing about my old school friends is the level of poverty the majority live in, the same level we grew up in. There is genuine feelings of hopelessness and at times pure jealousy if I mention booking a holiday or buying a car. We are not loaded but are able to afford enough to make life pleasant and comfortable. That's all I want for my DS.

Finance. 65k. 43 years old

Private school

I have 2 siblings. Between us we went private, comp and grammar.
The comp and grammar educated have the highest qualifications
The grammar has the highest income
Comp the most expensive house
Private, the most kudos but in a low paying sector.

Of our children the comp-educated have gone into the highest paying jobs and got the best A level results. (Children we’re a mix of private sixth form, and state comp throughout).

Assisted place at a private school (showing my age)
I am a manager in a social care team earning just over £50k at age 42. Not a high flyer!
I don't think I was sent there to earn a lot of money. My family culture is not of high flying careers and big salaries.

@HaveringWavering - that was a bit childish. Not an autocorrent issue. Walking 2 dogs in the pissing rain. School is in the table. Best years of my life, far less pressurised than most would imagine and I was a very average student.

^ Grammar schools 2021 league table: best grammar schools in the UK

Grammar and selective private schools reflate cohort.

Aspiration and work ethic largely comes from the family.

There is obviously quite often a correlation (because of the effort/ money required to get in) but not causation.

By and large Those children would do as well in other schools.

Grammar school
Now a doctor
Earn About 40k part time, am 30

Stay at home mum on benefits. Had the pleasure of giving birth to a disabled child. Nearly 40 and qualified for nothing. Desperate to work but struggling to find anything that can work around her dad's job (who, by contrast, failed most of his GCSEs and is now earning £40k up north), and that makes it financially worthwhile for me.

You can't predict the future.

mid 40s and on 32k, got great GCSEs and A levels at a mixed grammar. Lack of confidence and mental health/identity crisis in early 20s didnt help things but have found something I enjoy in the public sector and which has a good work/life balance. On paper, could have done better but I am not really cut out for anything cut throat, high pressure or managerial so limits most highly paid jobs.

Lots of surprise here about the long hours surgeons are working at the moment. 80 is pretty typical.
We have a massive backlog/waiting list to catch up on and want to help as many patients as possible.
Most are doing 5 x 12 hour days per week, also doing nights and weekends of emergency work and doing patient admin in the evenings.
We are doing our best to catch up before winter pressures bite- and this winter will be awful. And yes the private sector is very busy too obviously. For those that don't know you have to offer an additional 10% of your time to the NHS before you can even set foot in the private sector.
Don't believe everything you read in the Daily Mail.

(The irony with regards to this thread is that I had to move my kids from state primary to private school to support my hours)

Mixed semi-selective private school.

I'm 37, work part time as a doctor, on about £55k.

Went to private girls school ,
Now in my 40's , earn around 40k a year working in private healthcare .

My teenage pregnancy(aged16) scuppered all of my career plans

I work in pharma OP and earn mid 50's....I'm mid 30's but there's more to it than my earnings. I have had lots of opportunities, I worked abroad and travelled lots and I have always been mortgage free.

Grammar school educated. Was a teacher on 34 thousand (was part time) now I'm re training so am a student again with no income just a massive student loan.

When I qualify in my new vocation I'll start on about 24 thousand then average pay is about 40 after a few years.

Most of my friends from my all girls grammar have decent jobs but I don't know anyone who is earning millions. We are in our late 30s.

I don’t think lumping grammar and private together in your question will give you an accurate perspective. Two very different beasts.

Single parent family on benefits (divorced, absent father) Bursary to local private school at 11. Worked my backside off, first job at 14 (waitressing at a local restaurant), side jobs through school, university and professional qualifications (cleaning, shops, bars) and usually more than one at a time. Best job was M&S because you got a subsidised staff restaurant and could buy short date food at reduced prices at the end of your shift! Carried on during vocational training as ‘salary’ was £3k p.a and my rent was most of that. Bought first house with 5% deposit when interest rate was 15%. Good 6 figure salary in chosen profession by 2000. Financially secure but supporting DM and helping siblings financially. Don’t know if private school made a difference to me or not.

I just I knew this thread would attract answers like "I'm poorly paid, only £50K"

I went to a state grammar, am in my early 30s in a creative industry, salary £25K. DH is similar. We do Ok, own house, 2 cars, no bad debts, plenty of treats, but budget and prioritise spending quite strictly in order to afford that.

There are people from my school who are now on high salaries (the kids from middle class homes) and also people on benefits living in council houses (the kids from poorer homes). It's interesting that we all had exactly the same education yet people sort of followed the trajectory that is stereotypical of the social class they were born into. So it's not about the school IMO, it's more about family background.

I was on a sort of council scholarship to an independent school, went to Oxford and then did medicine, now semi retired. Was earning 6 figures.

Grammar educated. Now a middle manager in the MOJ on £40k in my early 40's

State grammar.
Age 47
SAHM to a dc with SEN for the last 12 years. (Was never the plan, but you just don't know what life will throw at you...)
When I was working, highest salary was £29k, charity sector.

DH - went to his local not very good comp. Earns £85k in IT.

Not sure what that tells you about anything!

@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.

You having a laugh?