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.

Me: EA to a ceo at a successful finance company: £95,000 plus bonus which can be another 25% on top. Left school at 16. Can be long and un predictable hours.

DH: recently retired saturation diver. Daily rate works out at around £40,000-45,000 per month depending on job. He would typically work max 4-5 months per year but maybe only 3 in difficult years.

Me: EA to a ceo at a successful finance company: £95,000 plus bonus which can be another 25% on top. Left school at 16. Can be long and un predictable hours.

DH: recently retired saturation diver. Daily rate works out at around £40,000-45,000 per month depending on job. He would typically work max 4-5 months per year but maybe only 3 in difficult years.

It's too common. I'm an academic and teach on the MBA programme at my university. There are many participants without a degree but with ample managerial experience.

Education, £40k.

Love my job and wouldn’t swap it for something better paid.

DH is self employed freelance writer and takes home about £60k a year.

Pretty much same here.

Work pastoral support in SEN on 21k. However that's 32 hours a week term time only. 27k for full time but that never exists.

It's been perfect for me as LP and ds is disabled. However he leaves college this year and so won't need me during holidays so I'm planning to pick up respite work and I've also trained to teach swimming.

I’m a senior marketer, head of department £51k in north Scotland. Total ballache, do not recommend.

Night Care Supervisor, not enough money.

LOL, I know.
How funny also that it could never be considered that people are allowed to manage their own time, or have a day off.

I am on leave this week, but even if I wasn’t, I have no minimum hours stipulated in my contract, no standard working day, nor a limit on annual leave.

The price is paid is for the job that needs doing, and more often than not, 9-5 is neither expected nor required.

Last message in response to Bernadette

This is lovely to hear 👏🏻

Why are these high salaries perceived as some as being lies? Please give me the rationale for that?

Great stuff.

Genuinely interested though - you say you don't pay tax...do you not pay tax on your rental income?

Care and support worker for disabled adults aged 18-64 £22k a year.

Forgot to say: I have 15 years experience and 9 of those were pre-qualified / training / studying.
I have 3 degrees including a BSc, MSc & PhD.
It hasn't been an easy career route, esp as a single mum for much of it! But worth it now.

Midwife of 13yrs in London, work 28.5hrs a week, FT basic pay would be £45k annum (not including unsociable hours, high cost living). I currently take home £2800-2950 pre pension deductions, would drop by 20% if I moved out of London.

my DH is an IT manager and is on about £80k

School teacher (independent school, Head of Department) £62k

Sorry yes we do on those but isn't much in the context of our earnings.

Carer 10.30ph for people with complex needs. Dangerous at times, lots of safeguarding issues and training.

Psychologist. Approx 70k per year, working 4 days per week, term time only. 50% of my time is as a paye employee and 50% private practice. Work from home half the time and generally a very flexible job. I love it.

Glasgow. Chartered accountant working as a management accountant. Qualified 8yrs ago. FT salary is a bit over £40K. Public sector though so I cld get more elsewhere but have excellent pension, holidays and flexi time.
I've worked part time for last 5yrs and there's no progression unless I go full time. I've no plans to do that for many years while the kids are little.
Despite all the high earners on here, in real life £40K is a big salary imo.

Wow some of these jobs I’ve never even heard of seem amazing!

As a few PP’s have said, it is quite sad reading through this as most of the HCP’s are given such poor pay for what they do. Even doctors, everyone always thinks they get paid substantial amounts, but unless you are a specialist or further down the line most doctors don’t.

I am a community pharmacist on £40k. Studied 5 years for that 😂 I could go further and earn more but the extra studying and going back to university to do a diploma isn’t worth it at the moment. Fancied packing it in quite a few times but then I remind myself that my job does involve helping people and sometimes saving lives, so yeah it’s quite rewarding! But there is a reason pharmacists are currently on the governments national shortage list.

DH is an engineer for a transport company and can earn between £80-£110k depending on overtime. His job is easy for the pay to say the least! The shifts are good, the hours are minimum and the holidays are fantastic. When we first started dating I was going to throw in the towel on my pharmacy studies and get a job as an apprentice with him…wish I did now ha ha!

I knew I should have studied psychology instead of pharmacy!

Software developer, contract. Currently billing £1,100 a day, which is £22,000 a month, although that's only because I'm doing two contracts at once, which I probably won't be able to keep up for the whole year. If I do it will be £260k. I still can't afford to buy a house in London.