Let’s play a game: Age - Salary - Sector !

[Yoghurtandblueberries]

Age: 35
Salary: 45k plus 4k benefits
Sector: Engineering/Construction

p.s: and mum of 2!

Op are you british? We don't discuss money like this without pearls firmly drawn up to our chin

(I'm 44 and earn zero pounds as a goddess)

I am in my 60s,, I work in tech (mostly a standard 40h week with the ability to wfh) and earn about £150k.

😂

I find this thread fascinating - lots of surprises to me (admittedly, my financial knowledge is shit!)

I had no ideas nurses or HR people could earn so much.
More weirdly (given that I'm in education), I had no idea TAs earned so little or that Professors earned so much.

I'm late 30s. Teacher. 42K

I don't find this thread boasty nor does it make me feel either inferior or inferior. It would if it was a discussion among friends but that's why that would never happen with real people. This is all anonymous so no different to googling 'salaries for different professions' and reading a list. None of us are 'real' people when we're just giving information through a screen.

30 31K education

I think it might be relevant to say what part of the country posters are in. Average salary where I live is £32k.

Yes agreed! And how do you know people don’t lie or exaggerate what they do/salary?!

31 - £100k + bonus - live in the North East but work at a tech firm in London.

@miniaturepixieonacid ”I had no ideas nurses or HR people could earn so much.”

You had no idea nurses could earn so much?

Are you actually for real???? You have absolutely no idea. Nurses are the backbone of our disgustingly underfunded and understaffed “national” Health Service. Nurses are horrendously underpaid. I bet you’re a Tory.

Do you want my mother's maiden name and my memorable place as well?

I'm middle-aged, I work in healthcare and earn a pittance.

@FlissyPaps I had to laugh at the post too. Not only nurses. The majority of our NHS is ran by low paid workers, barely scraping minimum wage, and the general public is completely ignorant to it!

It's not even a stealth boast @Yoghurtandblueberries . Just a boast.

Age- mid 40s
Salary 0
Sector 0

Ok I’m a PA/team coordinator for a global corporation but on a contract. Set to go permanent if I want to. Circa £35/£40 but that’s partly contract rate.

my main reason for choosing this job is a 2 day week in the office.

Oh I’m 51

40something
£40k
Self employed (retail)

35 - £80k + car allowance + bonus - Construction
(2 kids)

27 - €41,000 plus premiums - General Nurse in the Irish Health Service

I was actually with you, kind of (I do think women should talk more openly about salaries), until this!
there is absolutely no need to be so rude and patronising to other posters (‘have a bath’ - it’s the equivalent of Dave Cameron’s ‘calm down dear’).

Where do I sign up? 😁

My friend is a nurse and she earns £41,000 in her very early 30s (probably already did in her 20s.) I think that's pretty good TBH, far more than a lot of people. She still can't manage her money, purely because she uses more than her budget can allow on hair extensions and products, and her nails.

IMO this comes down to individual perception/ interpretation.
I am mid thirties looking for a career change, a decision which is largely financially driven.
I have gained some insight from this thread regardless.
Here in the UK we have a very closed attitude towards salaries which leaves people, particularly women in the dark when it comes to negotiating salary or knowing what the benchmark is per sector.
Do I feel envious of those earning more money than me? Yes! Can I use information on this thread to help me? Some of it absolutely.

You had no idea nurses could earn so much?
Are you actually for real???? You have absolutely no idea. Nurses are the backbone of our disgustingly underfunded and understaffed “national” Health Service. Nurses are horrendously underpaid. I bet you’re a Tory

Not at all, no, I'm an active, paid up member of a very different political party. I'm just reading what you're reading. I thought nursing topped out at about 30/35K (which is underpaid, yes). But there are nurses on this thread earning 40K, 53K, 58K. Not saying I think that's too much at all. I don't. I just didn't know the scale went that high.

Sorry everyone that this thread went down last night, someone reported it, MNHQ had to review it and they just brought it back as they didn’t find anything wrong with it.

Anyone that is not happy with that is mentioned here, can please not comment? I don’t want to derail but there is nothing wrong in this thread to the point that had to be reported.

@Maria1982 I am really sorry and I don’t normally respond like this but some posters have been very aggressive in this thread and accused me of bragging! Apologies

37
Accountancy
130k plus up to 25% bonus (usually between 15 &20%).

The thread is crass, and its only point is to cause upset and conflict.

But you know that.