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.

It varies on the hours I do but I'm a specialist carer in children's care home

Self employed education adviser
Earn about £120k for 4 days a week term time mostly and work the 5th day pro bono as a governor/trustee and for an education charity

Formerly a primary headteacher and then held a national role in education for a few years.

Not really - the house we're renting would be £950k to buy - we need 15% deposit plus stamp duty in the bank, which is £181,250. To be fair, we'll probably get there in the end, but it's a lot sillier than I expected.

£42,336. Primary School teacher with no extra responsibilities (eg head of department etc)

It's perfectly possibly to love what you do and earn good money!!! Not that everyone who wants more that you is exploited.

I earn £60k in a policy role in the public sector, with 6 years experience . I love love love my job and it fuels me!

Did you notice the number of people on really high salaries who added “love my job” at the end of their posts?

It was more a reflection on the absurdity of the housing market in 2022. It's really quite an ordinary house, and a generation ago, you'd have easily been able to buy it on a couple of teacher's salaries.

Not a really high salary but I love my job.
I could retire tomorrow if I wanted to but carry on working.

Supply Chain Category Manager. £74k/year. Supply Chain tends to pay poorly for the amount of effort and stress involved. I’ve had other, easier corporate roles that have had higher earning potential. (I give this in the spirit that knowledge is power, and as a younger woman, I wish I had been given better career advice. The best money in supply chain and logistics is in installing, implementing and selling the software to support these functions. Not in actually doing the job.)

Oooh i love a good braggy thread!

You could think about it in that way, which is negative, OR you could think about it positively in terms of showing women what is out there. I have forwarded this thread to my friend who is retraining for inspiration.

This sorts of threads definitely helped dd. She goes to Uni this year and it’s helped her narrow her focus. Other things have contributed but these conversations have helped.

I have been in MN for 10 years and these threads definitely helped me structure my progress.

I really dislike the ‘oh it’s braggy/rude/ crass to talk about what you earn’. It helps no one and often ends up with people being underpaid. Especially women.

Head office of one of the big supermarkets threaten employees with discipline if they discuss their wages. They don’t share the bands openly, lie and tell people they are in the middle or top of a band when they are at the bottom. Senior staff often pedal ‘oh it’s rude to talk about money anyway’

It ends with people being vastly underpaid and unfair wages. I dared them to discipline me when I told them they were lying. They quickly back down.

@Thedogshouses ....what a lovely and helpful thing to do... making a tangible difference to people's lives...

In addition to giving STEM workshops to the younger generation of women and sharing knowledge.

It's been a while since I've seen this approach, having lived as an expat in some of the poorest countries...you have reminded me that giving a little is enriching to the individual in its own way.

I agree completely @Butfirstcoffees

There is research evidence that people on low salaries don’t realise how much others are earning. If they knew, they could advocate better for themselves and they wouldn’t be so shy.

A lot of wage difference isn’t skill, it’s uneven information.

Worth a listen, regarding transparent salary information:

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/after-hours/id1363110130?i=1000553424453

What makes you say these jobs are more important than any other? The most important jobs are surely the ones that find these sectors. Care, education and health doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Someone has to pay for it. Also it’s not innovative doctors we need. It’s innovative tech solutions companies we need that automate as much of mundane medicine tasks as possible, that produce the most well funded labs in the world where solution are created.
I think there is misplaced virtue attached to healthcare and education roles that keeps people thinking that jobs in finance, tech and business are somehow worthless and not worthy. That’s an ignorant attitude that fails to take into account that these sectors are actually producing the wealth the funds public services. This attitude also keeps (mainly) women in low paid jobs too.

@pixie5121
I don't do my private work from home and my company is registered to a PO Box so nobody knows my address.

Please don’t peddle this false romanticism. High paid people don’t necessarily hate their jobs. And we shouldn’t encourage low paid people to stay in those jobs just because they might mot enjoy being paid more. Yet again, this kind of faux self fulfillment keeps women in low paid work.

EA to CEO in creative sector, £41K a year with 15 years experience. London.

I could go and earn significantly more, but I have a great balance at the moment with flexibility with hours so I have more time with DD1.

We are on our arse skint, but its only while we pay for private nursery and will be better off once she starts school.

I totally agree with your first response. If you are taking home £260k annually, you most definitely can afford to buy a good sized house in London. We used to live in London but moved out 3 years ago, we could have easily afforded to live somewhere in London on our total income salaries of £140k, and I wouldn’t deny that, but of course it wouldn’t have been as big a house compared to where we now live.

So yes; absolute rubbish. You could buy a house in London.

Buyer. Just over £40k plus car allowance and 10% bonus.

I find my job a weird one. Some companies think they can ask for a qualified and experienced buyer and pay them £20-25k and others understand their worth and pay £50-60k.

I have a great boss and it's flexible so I'm happy with my lot at the moment.

Solicitor, regional: now on 55k after changing jobs but was stuck on 42k for a while. No benefits apart from pension.

DH: FPGA engineer, which is supposedly well paid. He has been stuck on 55k for a while now too or equivalent to, following years of zero or less than 1% pay rises. Also outside London.

We are both fed up as we are quite senior. I think we are ok at our jobs and DH is the one who ends up being the "go-to" when others can't do their jobs and its added to his task list. I know I could earn more if I worked in London but it would mean more stress and commuting but I'm not exactly low stress or low hours where I am. DH has applied for several jobs but in engineering they seem to prefer younger lower paid people. He needs to go into contracting. Certainly there doesn't seem to be much point in being an employee if he doesn't get private medical care included as a benefit. If anyone know of a good agent then please pm me!

I'm honestly amazed at the the statistical probability of the tiny proportion of highly paid employees who have posted their salaries on here, perhaps theres a statistical bias in favour of doing so/being more outspoken/having more control over workload. The solicitor's salaries posted on the other hand are absolutely spot on in terms of what other people I know are earning.

I do think its beneficial to discuss salaries, because the only real beneficiaries of keeping them secret are employers who want to get away with paying less and tax avoiders!

DH and I are Company Directors of own business in a niche area of the construction industry. We employ about 15 people and are on about £100k each made up of salary and dividends.

If you’re reading this and thinking about what to train in, please consider tech! We are desperate for women! We have diversity targets we can’t meet because there just aren’t enough women to recruit!

@thefirsttest I don’t know why you’re getting such a hard time, people say “million pound house” like it’s going to be an amazingly lavish mansion - in zone 1,2 and 3, one million pounds gets you a 2.5 bed house, or maybe a flat - around 100 square metres PERHAPS some outdoor space if you’re really lucky. That’s crazy.