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?!

No they take contracts from anywhere. The main recruiter i work with is based a 2 hour plus train journey from me and he covers that city-the next city along an hour away and all the way to my small city and anywhere in between or around.

High paid jobs are no longer organised along strict geographical lines. These days with most places for higher salaries offering hybrid or fully remote these could be advertised anywhere online.

For the high earners I know it's not really about the location but the company. They work for large multinationals who have UK offices on, say, the M42 in Birmingham, or an industrial estate in Watford, or off the M62 in Leeds.

In small towns they expect locals to apply who won't have high commuting costs and you're compensated accordingly.

I know it requires time and money in the first place but if you can get something like a Project Management qualification and some experience in your current job (again, can be a stretch) then you've got the option to work remotely and earn a very good salary. My brother worked his way up in an engineering company and now works in Project Management for a company based in Canada but does it all from his desk in Sussex. He earns a decent salary and gets bonuses, etc.
Otherwise IT/tech or getting knowledgable in your field enough to be able to work as a consultant / contractor tends to pay well

You're not going to see high level jobs advertised on the board of a recurrent agency in town.

As others have said they go out to a recruiter and they have to go off and find someone suitable.

We live in Surrey and most of the high earners work in London 3 or more days a week.

Well the crappy ones scape LinkedIn and send out unsolicited messages to people they think might be suitable.

The good headhunters will activate their network of suitable candidates and leave you a voicemail to call them back.

I don't think location is really relevant - it's about finding someone with the right background and experience whose salary expectations (taking account of travel) will sit within the range the employer wants

No, it's more about the person.
My DH gets contacted by headhunters regularly for roles all over the UK. Often people will relocate for high paying jobs or do a combination of commute/wfh/live where the job is part of the week.

I saw an ad in the Guardian, sent a cv without covering letter and now work remotely. My salary is a London one and I live in the affordable East Midlands. I feel incredibly lucky.

Thing is, my last couple of jobs have talked about wfh as being part of the deal but promptly changed their minds. My salary is generous at home - not to factor in a London base or massive commute. Imho you have to find the right field and then be cold about it. Vote with your feet.

Fintech company based in London but fully remote so I am earning well but can live in the North of the country without any commute. Not all jobs HAVE to be based locally.

London and the South East, my DC both graduated recently and now have a job earning 25k. My DH just retired from his almost 200k a year London job.

£25k living in london? That is a minimum wage by london prices

I live in West Midlands. One works for a huge multinational other works for US company spread internationally. Both in finance.

£25k living in london? That is a minimum wage by london prices
No WFH in the South East, not bad for a 22 year old.

Of course not! People don't put their location on LinkedIn.

£25k pretty standard for brand new graduate. Their salary will increase fairly quickly.

The majority of properly well paid jobs in the UK are in London. The remainder are mainly in the large/prosperous cities - Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh

I’m in the north and work for a large, multi national tech company. Remote/hybrid working. Standard salaries for marketing, product management etc are about £50k and can get more with lots of experience at other companies. These are advertised on job sites and they actually struggle to fill all the roles they have! So many tech is the place to be - lots of roles ask for a degree though

I don't know where you live, but no qualified chartered accountant is going to be working for that amount. The job might be described as 'accountant', but it's likely to involve little more than bookkeeping and PAYE/invoice processing for a smallish company.

I've seen an advert in my local paper wanting a fully qualified solicitor for 20k! I guess all the decent paying companies head hunt whilst the cheeky fucker pennypincher employees advertise on Indeed

i got my job from head hunter on linkenid. It was £75k. Always got my job from head hunter

I work in Financial Services - all of our high paying roles are recruited via headhunters using LinkedIn or specific recruitment agencies who understand the nature of the qualifications and experience required.