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.

Yes, a software developer does coding. I work for a small organisation so I also get involved with database design/administration, devops, infrastructure, cloud computing, data analysis and a bit of sys admin, but coding is my core skill.

In-house lawyer
£95K + bonus/shares

15k a month! Wow.

Take home of £7k is about £140k/pa, which is very nice,l although as a contractor I was earning that for a few years from about £110k gross.

Currently running my own consultancy as a stress engineer. Salary is <£10k now!

Client Director in a marketing role, £65k so monthly take home around £3,700. I could earn quite a bit more if I switched agencies but I love the one I am at and it’s very flexible which suits me at the moment.

Team manager in a specialist team, £72k.

I've got 12 years' practical experience in the area in which we work, and started as an assistant on £22k. I have a degree but it's not a prerequisite for this field and the majority of my team don't.

People earning upwards of £5k a month are in the position of where they are generally making profit for a company, or facilitating that profit to be made.

Why does that make you feel anxious about your wage? By your degree, it’s clear you have picked a different path and that’s fine. Equally, if you wanted to earn more, you could retrain in one of these roles if your circumstances allow.

I’m an experienced inner London teacher with management responsibilities. £48k. A healthy wage, but I will never earn any more unless I go into school headship or retrain in a different sector. Shit hot lawyers earn 4x that. As well as some people in tech or financial services. I can’t feel bad about that! They’ve chosen to do something completely different which is more economically valued!

Lboc what sort of team? Finance again or people?

I have no clue what some of these roles actually produce/do.

I'm in middle management in fundraising at a medium-sized charity and on £43k. I've been at the same organisation (obviously not at the same level) for a decade. The only way for me to make a move that will bring in more money would be to move to a large charity or become more senior. Middle management charity roles tend to pay in the 35-45k bracket.

Lawyer. Financial Services. £200k. Plus around 50k bonus
I made the firm around £5m last year. Saved clients several millions. Got customers millions of £back in remedy payments.

Two degrees that cost me a lot in terms of investment of time and money that I didn't have over my 20s and 30s. It was a complete gamble. It's taken me 25 years to get to this. First job out of uni was £7k gross. Took me 5 years to get to 25k

People. Our role touches on finance but it's not a purely finance based role by any stretch of the imagination, we're client facing. Good communication is about 65% of the role.

Contracting on the IT/finance boundary, these days with heavy data science component. Sometimes on day rates of £1500, sometimes permanent on much lower than that (between £80K to £120K annual equivalent). Sometimes not employed if there are no projects. Whatever comes through the door.

Sales in IT - 130k base another 90k commission if I make target & some shares too

I work for a telecoms company part time 15k per year and dh is a lorry driver on 38k a year. We both get an annual bonus as well.

I'm a housewife. I hate working. I only do side gigs now but I did work for 15 years full-time before I became a mother. I'm writing now which has always been a dream of mine. If that takes off I'll be rich! but it probably won't and I'll just have a lot of fun.

This is let of the problem, if people don't know what their options properly are they don't know what to go for or attain to.

I’m a Software Engineering Manager, so I manage teams of software developers. Currently on just over £80k. My salary ceiling will be lower than some others in my role as I don’t actually have software development experience myself.

For anyone interested in coding, I’d recommend looking at some of the boot camps available. We have a number of developers who’ve come to us this way from a wide variety of backgrounds. I’m tempted to learn myself, as I find it fascinating and it would definitely benefit my earning potential!

I know. It's sad that the most important jobs are the least well paid. I think of care especially. Care assistance for elderly and disabled children and such, they should be highly paid to attract the best people. They should be the most respected people in our community, but oh no, to literally save children's lives my husband was paid a tenner an hour and less! To actually physically stop them hurting themselves.

I was paid 4.50 an hour back when I wiped old people's bottoms for 12 hours a day.

Neither of us could stay in those jobs, he's doing finance now as he wants money. I would have stayed a carer myself for at least a few more years but went into third sector.

Shouldn't be this way.

Teaching is similar, they are overworked and not respected enough. Similar with doctors, ideally you'd want a well rested innovative thinker for a doctor but you get a sleep deprived overworked drone.

I'm an EA salary band is £32k - £37k

I’m a registered nurse working in a care home, currently earn £33,000 pa. Some of these salaries are mind blowing! I’ve accepted I’m never going to make big money in nursing🤣

Many people on here exaggerate and over inflate.

I used to earn about 220 per day, now I'm earning 40 per day 😂 but hoping to go full-time quickly.

Perfectly possible. My bloke’s got an MSc from Cranfield without a bachelors degree.

My Job Title: 'Head of Something so vague you won't know I made it up'
Salary: The modest amount I really earn with an extra zero added because on here I can pretend to be a 'high earner' and no one is any the wiser 😊

These threads always bring out the non-believers. There definitely are people (and, shock horror, some of them are women) who do genuinely earn these high salaries. I have worked and networked with them over my career.
I myself am in mid-level specialist HR in a mid-sized company, FTE salary is £60k plus approx £7k bonus on a good year. I work part time. My salary is a little below market rate for what I do, but I love the people and business I work with.