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To ask what you do if you earn £18-22 per hour?

255 replies

pokeball · 07/11/2022 14:44

£18-£22 per hour is about £35-40k per year.

If this is your hourly rate can I ask what you do?

I have a feeling there will be a whole spectrum of jobs from shop supervisor to cleaner to call centre to teacher to nurse.

Purely asking out of curiosity to see the range and possibly the education level you'd need to earn this. Maybe say if you have a degree or not.

OP posts:
willstarttomorrow · 10/12/2022 15:49

Senior social worker- child protection at top of my payscale, 15 years + experience. Other surrounding LA's pay more but I work for the only large LA which is outsatanding- so however shite it is, I am under no illusion how much worse it is in neighbouring cities/localities. I have zero desire to move into middle management. For context, one of my ex-students is earning £48 ph as an agency worker in a failing LA.

willstarttomorrow · 10/12/2022 15:53

Just to add, undergraduate degree in applied social sciences and MA in SW. Prior to social work I was a nurse and in old money was band f when I left, specialism was accute cardiac care and was bleep holder for cardiac arrests. It was a long time ago- qualified at 21 through P2K and left aged 26.

superplumb · 10/12/2022 15:58

Cop 27 an hour which includes South Eastern allowance
Ahout to start Marking uni work as an hourly based marker 22 an hour at weekend, evenings etc once this is authorised by my force.
Have a degree and two postgraduates. Not needed for police but degree is useful for the marking.

Sliversands · 10/12/2022 16:00

Senior care worker.

Proteinpudding · 10/12/2022 16:02

Friend earns around this much as an architect, I was surprised as assumed it was much higher paid. Apparently it can be but only if you want to go the 'associate/partner' route, with all the management side that goes along with it. Otherwise (outside of London) around 40k is the limit.
That's with the full qualification which is degree + post grad + professional exams after a few years on the job.

PorridgewithQuark · 10/12/2022 16:02

I earn the top end of that and have a masters degree but it doesn't help with my job and is irrelevant 🤣

I work in a healthcare allied profession and do need the degree level apprenticeship I did five years ago when I retrained (non UK - it'd be a bachelor's degree including placements in the UK - I'm lucky I got paid to retrain whereas I'd have had to pay fees in England and Wales).

LeilaDarling · 10/12/2022 16:10

I don’t have a degree but work in an unusual and unique industry mainly public speaking, earn £250 per session but appreciate I am very lucky.

thetaleunfolds · 10/12/2022 16:22

Photographer. No degree

theonlygirl · 10/12/2022 16:56

OtterOnToast · 07/11/2022 14:48

I do admin work for a plastic surgeon which I do on a freelance basis. £25 an hour

Can I ask what kind of admin you do for that hourly rate? Then I can decide if I need to ask for a pay rise.

HelllBaby · 10/12/2022 17:02

Accountant. Accounts related qualifications that took me just over 3 years to get.

onagain · 10/12/2022 17:31

I earn about £55k per annum.
Left school at 16 with 7 o levels many years ago. Went to work at an insurance office and hated it. Moved to Europe when I was 20 and learned the language. Changed jobs loads and loads and improved my skills within each new role. I finally landed this one - and it's a PA role at a European company - it's hectic but I love it. I speak the language of the country I live in fluently and everyone here thinks my English is superb- which it isn't - but it's way better than their English language skills so I am very much valued for my language skills. Winning!

Simplyuglyineveryway · 10/12/2022 17:37

Specialist nurse.
2 degrees.

ILoveeCakes · 10/12/2022 17:37

HelllBaby · 10/12/2022 17:02

Accountant. Accounts related qualifications that took me just over 3 years to get.

Are they accountancy qualifications or accounts related qualifications?

HelllBaby · 10/12/2022 18:14

ILoveeCakes · 10/12/2022 17:37

Are they accountancy qualifications or accounts related qualifications?

Accountancy qualifications. AAT and a couple of CIMA

ILoveeCakes · 10/12/2022 18:24

HelllBaby · 10/12/2022 18:14

Accountancy qualifications. AAT and a couple of CIMA

Ah, the low grade stuff. Keep at it! ;)

HelllBaby · 10/12/2022 19:02

ILoveeCakes · 10/12/2022 18:24

Ah, the low grade stuff. Keep at it! ;)

Is this a serious reply?

girlmeetsboy · 10/12/2022 19:06

HelllBaby · 10/12/2022 19:02

Is this a serious reply?

Oouuchhh that's harsh, I am also an accountant, well I do the job of one without the top qualifications but learnt through being thrown under the bus in a job.

girlmeetsboy · 10/12/2022 19:07

girlmeetsboy · 10/12/2022 19:06

Oouuchhh that's harsh, I am also an accountant, well I do the job of one without the top qualifications but learnt through being thrown under the bus in a job.

I do have aat but not the rest just to add

BabyFour2023 · 10/12/2022 19:22

ILoveeCakes · 10/12/2022 18:24

Ah, the low grade stuff. Keep at it! ;)

How much do they pay per hour to be the resident twat?

Loveatortie · 10/12/2022 19:27

Dog walker, £10 half hour walk, £18 for a hours walk, live in south east.

HelllBaby · 10/12/2022 19:30

Glad other people can see this is a dickhead as well! Worked my way right through the team and manage a team of management accountants now! When I was in the salary bracket above I was working as a management accountant because I earned it through hard work, knowing more about the job than the CIMA qualified ones. Clearly quals don't earn you personality like the dickhead above!!

QuickNameChangeForThisThread1 · 10/12/2022 20:05

I work as a Project Officer for an NHS arms length body. It’s a band 6 post and one below Project Manager which I’m hoping to achieve in the next 18 months.

QueenLagertha · 10/12/2022 20:06

£20ph NHS OT (band 6). I am shocked by earlier posts from cleaners that clients often cancel and then they don't get paid. I think that's awful. I pay my cleaner as normal when I've had to cancel. I don't think she would come back otherwise and I wouldn't blame her.

00deed1988 · 10/12/2022 23:50

£20.98 an hour - Band 6 midwife in Outer London. That's on a day shift, 30% more on nights and Saturday and 60% extra on Sundays and Bank holidays. I have a degree.

CandidClarisse · 11/12/2022 00:01

Around £26 an hour here as an engineer at at internet provider. I have a university degree in a business related subject.

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