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??

No degree but professional experience/portfolio in my line of work - I was a journalist. When I was on 35k I managed two people in terms of rotas, daily support and development and training but I didn’t do their official appraisals or manage budgets. I then moved to a bigger organisation for 45k with no management responsibilities - that role was pretty slow paced and stress free (unusual for journalism!) I’ve now moved into tech and I’m on 55k - no management or budget responsibilities.

Tech is where the money seems to be!

How do you get into it though if that isn't your background? Could you go in low and work up?

@C8H10N4O2 I don't doubt it's unusual, thankfully everywhere DH has worked in the civil service that required vetting has had processes in place to allow for starting whilst full vetting had been completed.

He already has enhanced vetting from a previous MoJ role, he just needs a higher level for the new place of work, it's a massive site and there are many areas he can access while the big one is done (as they have advised that can take 9 months atm) thankfully his role is strategic and some is even done from home.

Thanks for your concern though

I went into a content role so I’m still writing and editing, just working for a tech company rather than in the media. So I was using the same skills I had as a journalist so there was no need to go in at a junior level. If I’d wanted to retrain as a developer or something though then yes I’d likely have had to do the training and start at the bottom. I’d recommend seeing if your skills can transfer into an equivalent level role in a better paying industry.

I continue to be amazed, most government departments requiring even just BPSS want vetting complete before confirming the contract or on boarding. Enhanced vetting from previous roles has to be transferred to be used, which takes as long as clearance.

What a massive turnaround from just three days ago.

Cheers for the biscuit though - hope its a digestive!

My FTE is just under this (currently work part time).

I don't manage a budget, thankfully (hate numbers). I currently don't line manage anyone although that could change at any time.

Stress wise, it has its peak moments at certain points of the year. There is more expected of us at this level than there was 5 years ago, definitely. The most stressful part of the job is having to deal with idiots, to be perfectly blunt. But I have autonomy to make some decisions, which I didn't have at a lower level, and I can delegate, which helps take the stress out a little.

Wow. I am amazed at these salaries! I don't work but my best friend, aged 42, has been an upholsterer in a furniture factory for 21 years. She went to college for 3 years to earn her diplomas.

She gets £11 an hour x 40 hours a week.

Im on a bit more. I am one of the more ezperienced members of the team and so.eone they would look to for advice but I have no management responsibilities nor do I have responsibilty for any budget. The job is not stressful and I never have to stay late to get things done although the job does involve dealing with minor conflicts regulalrly.

I earn 58K as a team leader. Im not stressed.

Interesting thread. I think it’s really hard to get a true picture though as a salary is only the ‘top line’ and you’re not always comparing like with like.

For example I earn £38k in an academic-related role. But I have an excellent pension where my employer pays a much larger than average contribution, higher than average annual leave, and if I do work any hours over my contracted hours I claim those back as time off in lieu.

So on the surface you could compare my role to someone on e.g. £55k and say I get paid a lot less. But if they were getting basic annual leave, worked lots of unpaid overtime and their employer only paid the minimum pension contribution, I could well be receiving the same pay for each hour of work as them.

For what it’s worth I think stress levels in relation to jobs is partly about personality type rather than the job itself. Some people are perfectionists and will easily stress over their role regardless what they’re paid, other people manage to be laid back and (relatively) stress free regardless of what their job throws at them.