To wonder where well paid jobs are?

[PennyHofstadter1]

Certainly not in my home town! DH and I are self employed but I like keeping tabs on the jobs market in the area.

There are literally never any jobs advertised in the local paper or on employment websites for much more than minimum wage. Most are minimum wage and the occasional job is 25k! In fact, from talking to people locally 25k seems to be thought of as a high salary around here. Employers think they are being generous if they offer this!

Where on earth are all the highly paid jobs? So many people on MN seem to have high salaries but where?!

Mine is home based, company is head quartered in LA with a U.K. office in south of England. I'm in the Midlands.

The high earners I know work in London.

Same where I live I'm on more than nmw (though less than 25k) but considered well paid, especially as I'm in hospitality.
Though most work around here is healthcare, social care or hospitality & retail so there's not much of a choice anyway.
Used to be a big industrial area but that disappeared.

Depends what you call well paid, but it’s an easy search.

uk.indeed.com/m/jobs?q=%C2%A330k-%C2%A3100%2C000k&l=&salaryType=%C2%A330%2C000%2B&jlid=3a90cb13634dae5a&rbl=England&from=serpso

I think higher paid jobs aren't advertised. They are briefed to recruitment consultants who scour LinkedIn for suitable candidates.

My home town is all minimum wage too. I am in job I have an hrs commute which is a pain and we just got a pay rise after being on a pay freeze for 10 years

I really want a job closer to home but cannot afford to take the pay cut

Lots of those are 30-35k per year, I wouldn't call that well paid

Most companies with specialist, well paid roles don't advertise in local papers or generic job search sites.
They use specialist job websites and LinkedIn.

I live in a city, salaries are high. Where I'm from though (post industrial town) there's very little above nmw, just shops / caring / cafe work.
The bigger cities have the better salaries, supply and demand isn't it?

Even for jobs such as accountants in my town the salary seems to be advertised as 25k. Estate agents too. I once got offered a telesales job locally for minimum wage, which was something even shitter at the time like £6 an hour, with the possibility of an extra £5 per day if we made 3 sales. Not even any commission on sales

All the high earners I know live or work in cities. This is another reason I don't understand (I do understand, but speaking generally), why people are so against work from home. There's a couple of jobs that my partner has had in finance which he could easily do from anywhere with a decent WiFi connection - meetings about once a month. That he needed to relocate to London was both pointless and expensive if you think about it.

Cities usually, I've always needed to commute.

Get a wfh job in tech or something similar, that industry needs more qualified people and you can live anywhere

Mine is isn't really highly paid, but above 30k. When we advertise for new roles we don't include the salary.

Ok, how about £100,000

uk.indeed.com/m/jobs?q=Salary+%C2%A3100%2C000

Small city statistically classed as deprived area.

Both highly paid. I think the problem is no role ive had in the past 15 years has ever been advertised. Its either been internal promotion through the ranks or approached via a recruiter or ex colleague. Dp the same.

Not the case for all roles. But i suspect that more of the higher paid roles are advertised differently. Either in house talent managers directly contacting candidates through industry knowledge and linkedin dms etc or referrals or recruiters sourcing candidates. I built and managed large teams for a number of years are rarely place an ad anywhere. But that could be an industry bias too.

All the high earners I know (not many, granted) work in big cities.

My hometown is the same, NMW or slightly more. They want this qualification, this many years experience and a partridge in a pear fucking tree. Then they moan they can’t get the staff 🙄

Most +£100k roles are briefed to head hunters, they don't tend to post them on job boards.

Well better paid jobs tend to be professional roles and usually advertised on specialist websites. You wouldn't look at Indeed for a midwife vacancy for example but you would look at NHS job pages. Lots of people also look at specific employer websites, so if there's a large employer nearby (local council for example) then look at their job pages.

Job sites such as indeed are usually scraped from other sites and often only useful for entry grade or minimum wage jobs.

Usually anything up to about 60k is on specialist sites I.e. finance recruiters etc. Anything above that seems to be head hunting.

I think the problem is no role ive had in the past 15 years has ever been advertised. Its either been internal promotion through the ranks or approached via a recruiter or ex colleague. Dp the same.

This. In my industry; they advertise up to about £40/45k on job boards etc, but above that, and it's usually head-hunted.

Just agreeing with other posters. If the well-paid jobs are advertised - and that's unlikely - it's always without a salary.

Everything's done through headhunters.

I'm assuming headhunters would only concentrate on city areas and those working in them?

Definitely this