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.

Oh I do have a degree but it's not related to this job

Mechanical technician/engineer. No degree but Qualified upto HND.

My 17 year old makes that serving dinners in a nursing home ( well almost, $20 an hour, so 17.33 pounds). They cant get the help apparently. She works 3 4 hour shifts a week after school and could work many many more if she wanted

Why did he decide to be a teacher? NQT Year was always going to be a lot of work

Walk other people's dogs.

Clinical nurse lead rmn

Content writer for a professional organisation - basically any communication to their members, plus magazine articles, press releases, reports and white papers etc.

I was a primary teacher for 16 years and then changed path to this.

I have an undergraduate degree, a PGCE and a Masters, none of which are particularly relevant to what I’m doing now but the MA feedback I got about my writing skills are probably what inspired me to try this.

Market rate for what I do is probably higher - I have a friend who is a freelance copywriter and charges more like £45 an hour, though that’s in a more commercial sector. However I find the sector I work in, and our members, really lovely. I get decent benefits and loads of flexibility so I’m happy with the balance overall.

Currently only work 2.5 days a week.

Cringing as I do whenever I mention writing/ teaching as no doubt my posts on here are littered with errors - disclaimer that my professional standards are higher!

He's intelligent, amazing with kids, always wanted to do it. Never thought he could until we met. My mum was a primary head and helped him through the process. He did his training at her school. He's actually been qualified a couple of years now, I just realised he was m2 last year. He qualified 2019 but there were not enough jobs in the region, then covid hit, so it took 2 years to complete nqt year in 2 schools. So technically he earned more last year I suppose, but then in his nqt year he earned less than £10.71. He has always done 60 hr plus weeks since starting teaching. He goes in at 6am, leaves at 5pm, does another hour at home. He is desperate to get a permanent job though so he doesn't cut corners.

I honestly would hope that a teacher would have a decent-ish grasp of all this, tbh!

It's basic common sense.

Marketing Manager

I have a degree, an industry qualification from Chartered Insitute of Marketing and a teaching degree (postgrad).

All qualifications have been helpful in my career but I know lots of people who do the job unqualified.

I don't think I'll be this pay for long as I'm more of a junior manager and pay/progression in marketing is quite fast.

@sarge89

Cleaners that are self employed pay their own NI and tax from that, they have no employer pension as you do, no sick pay, no holiday pay and have travelling time between jobs with no pay for that. They pay for cleaning materials etc from that.

It's not really comparable but if it makes you feel better go work as a cleaner 52 weeks of the year. There aren't many cleaners with lots of money unless they own a company employing others. My teacher neighbours have a second home in Spain and the other one is off for the summer travelling so again not really comparable but there you go. The other neighbour is a retired head teacher and has properties he rents out so didn't do so badly.

Perhaps go for extra points, to boost your income without much additional effort. My teacher neighbour says he is more efficient than most - maths - teaches the same thing so not much planning needed, no marking and homework is set and marked online.

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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
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I honestly would hope that a teacher would have a decent-ish grasp of all this, tbh!

It's basic common sense."

It appears not though!

I’ve changed sector now but previously I earned that as an IQA - internal quality assurance for an adult learning training provider. No degree, after a chaotic start in life I was in a min wage job then did a level 2, the level 3 apprenticeship to become supervisor, then the company I did those courses with took me on board as a trainee Assessor - and IQA was the next step up from that. Great qualification to have, as it’s so transferrable. Could be stressful working ti deadlines but I absolutely loved working in adult learning, supporting people who were on the very bottom ‘rung’ of the employment ladder to gradually improve their skills, knowledge and most importantly confidence, and then progress to higher paid positions and improve their prospects in life <3

Self employed Foster Carer work through fostering agency and get £31k pa for caring for 1 child with complex additional needs. I could get another £20-25k if I took a second child. £28k of the £31k is tax free though. I also get any milage over 28 miles a day paid at 40p per mile. I have 2 degrees and PGCE plus I have to do regular training.

Band 6 nurse with 14 years experience!

I'm the lower end of that spectrum and work in Social Housing. No qualifications, but I have recently started a chartered institute of housing apprenticeship

Run an arts organisation/charity, have a degree (in art ), and earn £22.85ph.

"chartered institute of housing apprenticeship"

About the most made up "professional" "qualification" ever!

CIH have a Royal Charter.

Big changes happening in Social Housing with increased regulation and - in fact the Regulator has recently announced they will be inspecting against professional standards and specifically recommends the CIH ones. Competence is a huge issue in the sector, social housing providers have a massive remit and some hefty responsibilities.

I don’t work for them but in the same sector.

There’s really no need to be so rude and dismissive, and nothing ‘made up’ about it.

JR Officer, I have a degree and CIPD.

HR Officer!

Police despatcher for Police Scotland.

Nanny. £19 an hour but I work 50+ hours a week and a lot of overtime during holidays plus proxy parenting, so yearly salary is never less than £50,000.

Band 5 staff nurse on top of pay scale, with 20 years experience. I work autonomously for most of the time, as I am a lone worker, so have to think on my feet with little back up ( often due to lack of phone signal ! ) when faced with difficult situations, so people who are critically unwell or dying, I get 32k.

62k working in tech as a Tech Lead. No degree, was lucky enough that a company took a chance on me in my first junior job some years back. But the field could be entered by doing a degree or apprenticeship too