To ask what you do for a living and how much you earn?

[Kallo3]

Just being nosey really, I feel like most of the women on mumsnet are really big earners. I need help managing my money a bit better I think.

Optical advisor minimum shitty wage.

True.

Is it the same tit who keeps putting these threads up? Every day!!

£0, SAHM.

Primary School SLT, £60k

Sociologist. Which is to say, I work in the sociology department of a university on a research-only contract, though I've taught before and will again. £35K, I love my work, I'm respected in my field and I don't need any more. I've actually decided not to go for the professorship I thought I always wanted. In many ways it takes you away from the actual work, and sacrifices your time to managing people and endlessly applying for funding.

Business consultancy. Basic around £140k, bonus varies but probably ~20% this year.

Marketing and communications manager in the IT sector - £100k but I live abroad and the wages are higher and the tax lower so it's not a fair comparison to Uk wages. I earned 50k in marketing in the Uk back in 2019 before I moved.

What do you mean by “big earners” ? Only 1% of tax payers earn £160K + ; unlikely that all Mumsnetters are in that group.

I don’t think that telling you my income and job will help your money situation (unless you’re in your 20s or have a lot of energy and are prepared to do more study) as it’s taken me 20+ years of study and hard work to get here. More like 35 years if you count all the time I spent working hard at school getting top marks.

From the IFS:
“To be in the top 1% of income tax payers in the UK (i.e. to be among the 310,000 individuals with the highest income), a taxable income of at least £160,000 is required. £236,000 is required to be in the top 0.5% and nearly £650,000 to be in the top 0.1%. 43% of adults pay no income tax and to be in the top 1% of all adults (or the top 540,000 people), a pre-tax income of at least £120,000 is required.”

PMO Manager. £65k.

Exec in education, a little over £100k with yearly pay rises. Occasional bonuses, but all staff get them, it's usually a percentage of your pay, and usually around Christmas time, if at all.

27k manager of a preschool, I’m term time only.

Forensic Psychologist in an NHS secure unit. £53k. 15 years experience in total and 3 degrees (BSc, MSc and PhD).

And I’m in the UK earning £50k in marketing (public sector). Well I would be but I’m 0.6FTE for various family reasons (am putting extra into my pension…)

Management consultancy in the engineering sector. Circa 75k 0.6FTE

Why do you think people - women, specifically - would purposefully lie about what they earn?

For me, tech consultancy, £1k (including bonus).

I grew up in a very ordinary lower-middle class family in the west of Scotland and was state-educated. Bright kids, like me, went to university to study law or medicine or accountancy or something that might lead to a teaching career. I didn't even know that management consultancy or tech was a thing.

These conversations are important.

newly qualifies social worker. 30k

Ffft, £100k. You know what I mean!

I’m sure some people exaggerate but it’s always a real shame to see how much disbelief there is on threads like this about women earning so well.

I work in a global professional services firm. There are numerous women in that business earning over £100k p.a, running in to £1m plus at the top of the firm. Several PA’s are on over £70k. Our NQs earn north of £100k as soon as they qualify. We are by no means the highest paying business in our category. I get it might be an unfamiliar world to some but it is very much the norm to have high earners (including, shock horror, women) in big professional services firms like mine.

As for me, senior business support role, earning close to £200k p.a before bonus and benefits. Will probably cap out at c£250k, unless I broaden my remit and skill set.

25K NHS Therapist. Work 22.5 hours a week.

Conveyancer £40k

Finance £35k

Primary teacher £2,391.12 after tax

I work in the telecoms industry, but on the corporate side in learning and development. With annual bonuses I earn just over 40k, no degrees but a professional CIPD diploma. Experience counts for more in L&D a lot of the time. Looking to move into management which should bump me up a fair whack. I'm planning to eventually achieve a directorship but that will take me another 10 years or so.

Irreverent, we all would.