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

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£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.

I programme lighting systems for hospitals and universities. I have a couple of industry related qualifications, and average gcses, but no degrees.

The job also includes company vehicle, pension, breakfast/lunch/dinner if needed, etc.

IT project manager.

no degree or even A levels.

I earned 35k ish as a newly qualified psychologist. After gaining 3 degrees including a PhD. I now earn just over 50k as a senior psychologist.

I'm a buyer for a manufacturer. I buy bits of plastic that are used in the manufacturing process. I have a maths degree but to be honest you don't need a degree at all. Home/office hybrid working and an early finish on a Friday. It's not a bad gig.

@ljs22 DD wants to be a psychologist, currently at uni. Do you have to do a PhD to qualify?

£26 per hour, engineering discipline with a degree and a masters degree. Pension is no way as good as public sector pensions and we don’t get as much holiday.

I’m sick of people on here today trying to compare hourly pay and using it to try and show how poorly paid they are. You cannot compare employed to self employed rates, or public and private sector. You have to take the full package into account including pension, holidays and sick pay. A nurses salary, for example, should be looked at including the pension provision, sick pay and holidays, not as an hourly rate on its own.

Dh earns more than that per hour...he is a landscape gardener...own business.

£9.50 minimum wage job, 16 hours a week
2 kids giving £279 benefits per week or £17.43 per hour.
Total per hour - £26.93

@Amboseli

To qualify as a clinical psychologist you do, yes. It's a 3 year Doctorate course (equivalent to a PhD level qualification). But first step is to complete an undergraduate degree in psychology (and gain clinically relevant experience) before you can be considered for the Doctorate course. It's a highly competitive course, usually hundreds of applicants for around 20-30 places per course. A lot of people won't get on it first attempt - applications are once a year and some people can apply for 2-3 years before getting offered a place. Highly recommend though - best career choice I ever made! (Albeit challenging at times!)

Call centre manager. £21ph. No degree. No qualifications at all actually. Experience based.

Practice nurse. 32 years qualified with non nursing first class degree.

@ljs22 thank you! DD is doing psychology and education at uni. In her 1st year. Am glad to hear you're enjoying it which is so important. I imagine it being challenging but very rewarding. Thanks for the info about the doctorate course. I wonder why so few places when we're in dire need of mental health professionals.

Executive Assistant to a COO. I have a degree but it hasn't benefitted me at all!

@Amboseli

The limited number of places will no doubt be a finding issue - trainee clinical psychologists get paid a band 6 NHS salary (£33k) during training, and all training costs are met by the university/ NHS trust employing the trainee. So it's expensive to train us, basically.

I'm not sure if your daughter's course confers eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (with the BPS). I'd check this, as clinical psychology training courses require that an applicant's undergraduate degree has this - not all psychology undergrad degrees automatically have it.

Good luck to your DD 🙂

*funding not finding

I have PhD and postdocs and act as more of a SME consultant, £25 an hour ish.

My wife has three masters and has had various director positions in training, full time about £75 an hour.

I earn about £18/h maybe less with preparation time and directed time, teaching computer science Alevel and TLevel DPDD (software development) and £20/h as a cleaner for high end holiday properties

but I can’t do that much cleaning due to tax reasons so have to stick to the day job…

there’s something wrong somewhere…

For the 39 weeks that is £846 a week, so £211 per day, no cleaner is on £211 for a days work, they have no pension or sick pay etc as benefits

I am a nanny. Are you talking gross or Net? As it’s a little less net obviously.

I have a postgraduate degree. I'm a data analyst.

Research chemist, PhD.

Project manager. No degree.

executive assistant £18.46 per hour according to my yearly salary and hours of work. in reality it's nearer to £14 per hour as it's impossible to get my work done within my contracted hours

Both DH and I fall into this bracket, we earn roughly the same of circa £40k for 35 hours - although DH earns a fair bit more if he does extra hours.

I work in financial services complaints. No degree. Very decent pension and benefits, flexible WFH role that I pretty much choose my own hours for and know inside out so not hugely stressful.

DH is a self employed taxi driver. He's earning more now than he did for years in his previous management roles within various companies...plus the work is much more flexible and enjoyable, albeit riskier as self employed.

I am a lead assessor for the assessment and verification of some professional exams. Just under 36k pa