FTE jobs paying around £35k per year

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If you have a job around this level of salary, how big is your role?

Do you manage people, if so how many?

Do you manage a budget, if so how much?

Is the job stressful or what is the most stressful thing about your job?

I'm wondering whether to go for a job paying this but with more responsibility and probably stress or stay at around the £25k mark but plod along and not be stressed.

Anyone else moved up or down the ladder due to these reasons??

My salary is exactly that much.

I am somewhere in the middle of our work hierarchy.

I do not officially manage people; however more junior staff tend to come to me first if they have questions regarding work.

I live with my parents and I do not manage a budget.

The job can be stressful at times; we do have a relatively high high turnover of staff that cannot cope with the pressure. We get overtime pay at £25 an hour during peak times.

Feel free to ask me more questions OP or anyone else.

40k is a good amount but I expect you earn every single penny of that. Also I understand teachers work many hours over their directed time so if you average out your annual salary against time worked, it would not be as good.

It very much depends on the job.

In my previous job I earned £38k and had budget and line management responsibilities.

I now earn £53k and don't have either! However, my work load is significantly higher.

I don't know anyone on less than 35k, from marketing execs, warehouse staff with a fair amount of overtime, newly qualified accountants, call Center managers, HR advisers, PAs, tradespeople, lorry drivers and project managers.

As per a previous poster, pharma industry, admin staff have an average salary of 35k. No experience admins would start on 25k.
Choose your industry wisely!

My advice would be take on responsibility as much as possible while you are keen and have the ability to do so. Once you get to a point of no longer wanting to further your career, you have better options and can step down then maybe staying on a higher salary.
Plus plodding along just sounds dull and would fry your brain.

Usually because you don't get the salary AND the flexibility that people are looking for. Often people returning to work want part time/school hours/WFH and that limits the roles available.

It is massively unrealistic to expect a good salary and all the restrictions on when they can be available, so frankly people need to decide if it is money or flexibility/hours that is most important to them

I earn this.
No direct reports, no contact with the public. Bliss.

50k, line manage 40 staff and responsible for ensuring the budget is used effectively

I manage a devolved budget of around £1 million, but don't have direct control over all of it. I like manage a manager who has a small team. I manage several stakeholder contracts. Civil service.

Sorry should mention I'm on a pay band between early to mid 30s. No related qualifications, just relevant industry experience. I also am responsible for several performance measures at our site.

Bloody hell. Really? I'd be on £32k if I was full time. Non departmental public body. Many years of pay freezes and not much chance of progression. I've got 20yrs experience, a masters and a degree. I don't line manage but do functionally manage 5 people and lead on what my place deems high risk high opportunity projects working with lots of external partners. The constant juggling and being spread too thin is starting to feel a bit much.

I earn that. I work 35 hrs over 4 days. I do case work thats fairly complex but don't people manage or have any budgets. I do have to coach some people and new starters but it's not hugely stressful although it is in a complaints environment!

@Reluctantadult yes really, many WC jobs are on more than 35k, and many starting in professional settings are on that.

People make choices on their careers, some prosper, others don't, facts of life unfortunately.

@alphapie what's WC?

If it is in local authority, government or nhs expect a lot of stress and responsibility for that level of pay. Private sector it depends on role, in engineering a 35k role is a more junior role, no management or budget so less stress.

Our graduate software engineering roles aren't much below that, to be honest. I'd say a good portion of relatively junior - mid-level software engineers are on £35k (or more). No line management, no budget responsibility, no real responsibility other than turn up, do the job and go home.

I'm guessing working class

I wouldn't assume earning 35k means stress. I would recommend you take opportunities as a woman to increase your earning power when you can. Even if you don't like the new 35k job, stick it out for a year and find a 40k+ job that is less stressful. Don't talk yourself out of progressing your career. You may also find you love a different or increased sense of challenge and progression. It's not just about stress.

2 different jobs i saw recently (charity jobs) paud under 30k and required budget holding!

Lots around 24-27k working with families, kids with trauma, really responsible stressful jobs.

Lots of professions start lower - OT/nurse/social worker/teacher/ etc etc...

I think it depends on whether the role itself is skilled. In an unskilled area you could be managing many people on that. I'm on quite a lot more than that, don't manage anyone and pretty much manage my own workload so not at all stressed, but I work in a specific, highly skilled area, in a shortage area, and get paid well because of that.

In my civil service stand, for £28k plus, you have line management responsibilities and are expected to operate at a strategic level as well.

This is a great perspective and not the kind of attitude I would naturally take.

Noticing the disparity with civil service / public sector roles.

This is in line with the previous post I just quoted.

It seems local authorities pay less for more responsibility.

This is where the potential new job is and I'm not sure it's worth it.

Bloody hell, I really chose the wrong career!

I’m a doctor, and a Senior House Officer (ie a fully qualified doctor who has completed a medical degree as well as between 1-5 years of postgraduate training + exams) is on between £34-40k basic pay.

This role involves being a point of contact for more junior staff, nursing/AHP staff, or staff from other specialties to ask advice from. Out of hours they are directly responsible for 100-120 patients at any given time and have to make decisions which could have huge (literally life or death) consequences, and would be expected to defend these decisions in court if it all went horribly wrong. Then there’s the expectation of unpaid overtime, the expectation that we will use our spare time to do research/audits/quality improvement, and not to mention studying for the exams which are mandatory to progress.

Granted, in medicine the pay goes up (as does the responsibility!) as you progress and to be completely transparent my take home pay is normally more than the basic pay would suggest, as this is based on a 40 hour working week, and standard “full time” for doctors is 48 hours a week, then you get extra for how many weekends/nights you do. But still, it’s good to have it confirmed that I’m horribly underpaid and should have made better choices if I wanted to prosper in life