AIBU to ask what your job title is and what your expected salary is?

[user0512]

Hi all,

I'm just a bit curious as to what our fellow Mumsnetter's job titles are and if you don't mind sharing, your approx wage. I see others on here earning near £7,000 PM. How? It always leaves me feeling a bit anxious about my own job and wage.

I have a degree in Childhood and Youth Studies, but I doubt I'll ever earn near enough £7,000 a month.

Education £60k a year
DP - Education Tech £160k a year
Instarted my career out of college on £7k a year in a bookstore…

As a general rule, the roles which command the highest salaries are those which either directly generate profit for a company, directly save a company money, or require very specialist and in-demand skills which few people have. Unfortunately, working with children is never going to be rewarded in the same way as working with money.

I’m a Company Secretary but title itself isn’t necessarily an indication of salary so much as the industry, size of organisation, and complexity of the function. It could command a salary of £500,000-plus in a large multinational with group and subsidiary structures, or under £50,000 in a small boutique firm or start-up.

@Ahgoonyegirlye

what does your DP do there? Please tell me more!

Work in IT as a contractor (non technical) with particular experience and work requirement that is not easy to gain therefore can command a better rate of pay.
Even outside of the industry I currently work in I can earn base of approx £80k. Doesn't amount to 7k a month though. That's a healthy salary!

Sorry, should have said that my salary is about the amount you posted in your initial enquiry. But outgoings to match!

Psychologist. I’m on 42800 now, with take-home of about 2400 pm. My salary will max out at about 50k, if I don’t go into a management role (which I don’t expect to do). I’m public sector, private psychologists could earn more but I prefer being an employee to being self employed.

Senior account manager in aviation. $180,000 (US dollars). In a state with no state income tax too. So my take-home pay is very nice at just over $12k a month.

I’m a forecast analyst for a big retailer & £90k salary. DH, senior developer (software not property) £120k. We’ve both traded higher salaries for very flexible work and low expectations of hours (full time but expectation is around 30 hours/week), if you really want to earn, learn to code!

Accountant with own tax practice

I'm an Account Exec for a large broker and I earn £50k a year plus bonus. I started out working in an insurance call centre on £13.5k a year and have worked my way up.

Higher Ed RG uni. £60. Hoping to get a promotion but don’t anticipate will reach six figures.

Head of internal reporting wage is approx 50k usually a bit over with bonuses. However, I have a sizeable chunk of shares in the company which pay out approx twice that each year.

I don’t think you should get anxious about what other people earn though. I don’t have degree, I got this job through having the right mix of skills and experience they needed. Previous to this job I was a single parent on 25k per year.

I turned this company down 3 times because the Senior roles require a lot of commitment. For example, having to take calls at 9pm at night because finance are having problems with a report.

But the eventually offered terms like home working when I want to and arranging my own diary. But whilst I have worked hard on my career, the fact that this company wanted me so badly is mainly down to luck. In between me turning the role down they employed 2 other people who failed to fulfill the role and left. So the company was stuck.

Had the recruiter not heard of me in the industry, the MD really like me, 2 people failed to do the job or if I didn’t turn the job down several times, I would not be in this job with this wage.

Oh and I started in this industry taking calls in a call centre for one of the big companies in the industry

Senior nurse, community based £45,000

Ups and downs of self contracting in IT, have earned less than 10k a year and as little as 0 per week. (Just here for balance.)

Senior marketing manager £40k. I doubt I’ll ever make BIG money if I stay in the same industry but I really love my job so cling to that.

For anonymity I'll call myself a Business Development Manager in the professional services world.
I've just moved from a big global employer to a regional employer and took a pay cut to do so, so Im now on £50k.
It seemed like a good idea just before the cost of living crisis kicked off! 🤦🏼‍♀️

Public sector, 24hr p/w take home after deductions £1100 a month.

£43k Principal Adviser in science based government arms length body. My industry overall is poorly paid, I would be on more at the same grade in another sector, but it's a field I care about, have trained in it my whole adult life and enjoy the work.

Cleaner in a care home. £7,000 roughly, per annum.

I’m Head of Research (specialist knowledge in the regulatory environment too) for a private company in the medical field and I am on £120k p.s. I choose to work part time however.

My husband has a similar role (no reg knowledge though) but in tech for a well known tech company and gets £200k per annum. He is a recognised expert in what he does.

FWIW we both have multiple degrees, including PhDs from high-ranking Universities. It has been a long, focused effort, but we both love what we do.

Charity shop manager.....12K per year.

Change management director, large international firm. 180k. It's specialist and requires influencing skills and to be very organised. My team basically help embed financial standardising projects around the world. I never went to uni but worked my way up in marketing, and was v lucky with a temp job that grew and grew. Then I did a MBA. That changed my life and doubled my salary. I still don't know much about finance but I know how to bring the right people together.

How did you do an MBA without a first degree youlight? I had no idea this was allowed.

Financial services for a small boutique basic is £15k a month but some months I’ve earned £30k. I never in my wildest dreams imagined I’d make money like this. I started at same company on £26k years ago and have carved out a niche role for myself. I did however deliberately choose an industry that pays well because I never wanted to be reliant on anyone else to support me (good job as I’m single parent now with disabilities).
Nobody would know I make this much. I live in a small ish terraced house.