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??

Thanks for sharing. Are you in London? I'm in a similar area, but it's a very stagnant public sector role (with stagnating pay) how did you get to where you are now?

My previous job was on £42k no budget, no management, no stress.
I am now on £50k, no budget, 1 employee, no stress.

My partner is on £32k no budget, no management although he does lead projects that others work on, lots and lots of stress.

My partner should earn more, he's capable and deserves more, but he won't change jobs as he likes his team and gets anxious about new situations. I wouldn't stand for it if I was in his position, but that's his choice.

I wouldn't worry about pushing yourself. You'll soon get to grips with a new role. Your skills will grow to suit the role.

Couldn’t agree more. Some of the salaries on this thread are abismal for the amount of work and stress involved. Why anyone would go into nursing, for example, is beyond me.

I have a stress free civil service job. I manage 1 person and look after a budget of about £5 million - although it is my manager who is actually accountable rather than me. If I was full time I would be on £52k but I choose to work 3 days. I’m in London but the regional salary for the same job wouldn’t be much less. I also don’t consider myself to be particularly well paid. The next grade up (my boss’s job) pays only only ~£5k more and comes with a huge amount more responsibility and line management. I have decided I don’t ever want a promotion to that grade because it’s just not worth it. I would sooner return to the private sector and earn more.

School girls need to be steered towards better jobs. Not caring and teaching and retail.

NC for this.

I'm a clinical psychologist currently on NHS band 8a (£47-53k). Trainees are on a band 6 which is just a bit less than 35k starting. As a trainee you don't have to manage people or budgets, you're learning and studying so you are essentially supervised yourself rather than being a supervisor, iyswim. You're also a doctoral level student studying at the same time, though, so lots of pressure in that respect as it's the equivalent of producing PhD level research but alongside working 3 days on placement in the NHS (leaving 2 days plus evenings and weekends to do your study). It's full on, and definitely stressful, but you're not in a management position.

It's worth it now when I look back, as I'm reaping the benefits as a qualified psych, but it's taken a while to get here!

It's worth saying that I am less pressured and stressed now as a qualified psychologist than I was as a trainee earning 15k less!

It is fascinating how often people say "everyone, especially girls, should pick a career carefully based on the salary not what you like."

There would literally be no teachers, nurses, social workers, midwives, doctors, teaching assistants, physiotherapists etc etc etc if everyone did that...

Another thread which shows London really is a different country.
I’m retired now but would be on £35k if still working. Responsible for 28 staff and budget of over £1 million, lots of stress.
This is in the Midlands though where very few people are on high salaries. Fortunately house prices reflect this.

I was a social worker paid around that. I was doing complex safeguarding cases daily alongside appearing in Court. Social work in a local authority is poorly paid, however, given how much responsibility is carried for people's lives and how stressful it can be.

I earn that with no manager duties, and no budgets but a heck of a lot of stress because humankind can be arseholes to each other. I work for a Housing Association.

I dont have any qualifications above a GCSE.

Another example similar to the point I made about teachers.

It's quite interesting the broad range and responsibility for jobs around this pay bracket.

Warehouse staff on £35k plus. There’s a job for a warehouse manager advertised at £23k locally.

so many people on £9.50 an hour round here. Zero unemployment but £35k plus is definitely not the norm.

I'm on just shy of £35k when you include my (pretty reliable, even during covid) annual bonus.

I have only A Levels, no degree etc. Still on my gap year at age 36 😂

I work in finance, in complaints. No people management, no budget management, no 'big' responsibilities like projects or anything. There is stress during the working day as I have tight deadlines and complex cases which take days to pick apart...but nothing I think about outside of work.

35 hours a week WFH, very flexible, never do a minute of work over my paid hours and nor would the company/my boss expect it.

I always keep an eye on the job market and have seen a number of better paid jobs in the £40-£45k range I'd have good chance at - but my current job is so flexible and convenient I'm loathe to give that up while I have young dc...maybe in a few years.

Environmental consultant. Private sector earning just under 40k. Responsible for project managing 500k budget. 45-50 hrs a week. If I'd stayed in local government I'd have earned similar with line management but not financial responsibility and slightly longer hours.

41k FTE here although I only do 0.6 now. No staff, no budget, have just three O Level's, but I’m in my fifties. I hate this particular role though, I could move internally but at my age I can’t be arsed.

I’ve had plenty of roles in the same company on the same money that I have enjoyed though and never went beyond this grade (which is 3 above what I started on) because they were stress free, it counts for a lot.

Stress free does count for a lot doesn't it.

I actually expected more responses to say they were stressed on a salary in this region but it seems to actually be the opposite.

So I think either the post I'm looking at either is stressful or perhaps it's me with the issue of not managing stress appropriately.

35k or little less is what one of my staff earn. She manages about 6 people directly, but 4 work areas which are all very busy and not enough resource. It is quite stressful at times but we are a good team so we always pull through those times together. No budget, most stressful thing is getting demands from top of the shop and not having enough resource. Robbing Peter to pay Paul

Some people sound v under paid on here.

Management / budget responsibilities on £35k! I'm really surprised you're not paid more for doing jobs like that

£43k base, usually 5 figure bonus also.

Project Management/Business analysis associate. No direct reports, no budget management, though I am part of budget conversations. Salary because I am working in a rather niche division with a “new” technology in Investment Banking (outside London). Lots of scope for progression but not stressed!

I earn less than that (£27k) and I have budgets and line management responsibilities. It really does depend on the field.

Which means that the salaries for those positions would have to rise.
I'm NHS, on £39k, I have 30 years experience in my niche field, run my own clinic, know my stuff and often have Dr's coming to me for clinical advice. The stress is off the scale, esp when people don't turn up for an appointment and I need to try and squeeze then in somewhere else.
If you want high salary, retrain in tech. 2 of my children had grad salaries higher then mine.

I have people who work for me on that who don't manage anyone but do have to help/coach more junior staff. They are project assistants/junior project managers or business analysts. In fact you can earn quite a lot as a business analyst and not manage anyone.

When I was on 35k + bonus I managed no one but reported into the Board at a small org. Wouldn't say it was horrendously stressful. But I've always been private sector.

So, what, women should do it anyway, even if they are less well off or financially stable, because they just ought to? For the good of society? Yabu!

Women most certainly should look to their financial well being first and foremost, ffs.

So then those jobs would have to pay competitively to attract staff, win win.

I'm 32 and when I was 24 I was earning 35k, not in London either. Having seen how low paid many are on this site it's damn well time we teach women what opportunities will come with financial reward, and that starts with removing that stiff upper lip over discussing salary (which I also see posted here a lot)

That was my salary in 2007 in a technology company in the south east, managing a team of 3.

It really depends on where you are and what you do. Some industries pay badly

Was (until a recent promotion) on just over this in a civil service role. No management responsibility but in a niche field and have had to gain qualifications.
The dept is one of the higher paying ones in the Civil Service though and other non-technical jobs at the same grade would normally have management responsibilities.
I wouldn't say it was a particularly stressful job on the whole, but it has its moments.