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!

31 - £46k - retail buying

@thedancingbear be careful. You'll be a used of being aggressive.

OP the thread was taken down due to there being about 3/4/5 very similar threads all started at a very similar time last night, not solely because someone has reported you as you're suggesting. Everyone gets a message about why a thread they are commenting on has been taken down.

Advanced and consultant nurse roles are on bands 8A-D with a handful on Band 9 which tops out at £105k.

TAs get shafted for the work they do. I must admit I get paid loads for not much hard work. Admittedly I toiled to get here and it's much more about my knowledge now than the effort I put in but I often reflect that my salary would pay for nearly 10 TAs.

54
£42k
Teaching

But about to go on to half pay as I'm on long term sick. I'm lucky I've had 6 months full pay & now get 6 months half pay. (Not that I can afford to live on half my pay!)

30 £100k plus perks and a lavish Xmas party we have to sign NDAs for. MNHQ admin

May I please ask where in the UK and if it’s for a senior position?

Not at all, there are volunteers who get fulfilment from their jobs and don't feel resentful at those that earn.
Yes it's frustrating when you feel you could be earning more but no else can do anything about it.
OP has stated time and agin that she isn't boasting. Some people on here see it as such, some don't. No one has to post if they don't want to.
Glad the thread was brought back, common sense prevails.

Not sure how it is boasting if no-one knows who you are IRL. In a similar vein, why would anyone lie about their salary/job on an anonymous forum?

42 - 53k - government lawyer

I changed career so I'm at the bottom of the legal ladder for now.

Before that I was a prison officer on 28k

3 kids

Advanced and consultant nurse roles are on bands 8A-D with a handful on Band 9 which tops out at £105k

This is the kind of information that makes this thread worthwhile imo (yes, sure it's freely available on Google but most people don't Google things like that). I'm glad those kind of salaries are available for nursing and it would make me much keener to encourage a child down that route. I really thought you could never earn much as a nurse.

sluttyshag - didn't mean to suggest you don't earn your salary. Must have been a huge amount of work to get there. It's just another job which in my head was low paid. Interesting to know it isn't necessarily.

I've never done anything but education so know so little about other sectors.

Advanced and consultant nurse roles are on bands 8A-D with a handful on Band 9 which tops out at £105k
whilst this is true the 'nurses' on 8d in my trust are in very senior leadership roles and after a long way from doing any nursing that the general public would recognise (doesn'tt mean their clinical leadership skills aren't much needed and worth the salary... Just very different)

The problem with this is most nurses aren't on anything near a band 8 or 9. Most nurses stay on band 5. Some progress to band 6. Next year most nurses will be earning barely over minimum wage.

Yes, I totally understand that halofern . But all sectors have a scale, don't they. And the majority of people in any sector aren't at the top of it. But it doesn't mean the top doesn't exist and I didn't know the top of the nursing sector was anything like as high as it is. That's all I meant by the original, fairly throwaway comment, which also referenced the salaries of many other jobs that surprised me.

56 27K band 5 ICU nurse 30 hours/pw

Most of the band 7 and 8 ward nurses I know don't go anywhere near patients, seem to spend most of their time sending e-mails and going to meetings. Guess it's a different type of stress...

33, 77k (US), Niche Civil service

I'm in an HCOL area and earn about 3k less than "average" for my state, which is crazy but there's been a tech boom in the last couple years so salaries are higher. I always negotiate salaries/benefits and I'm not shy about asking recruiters pay range before doing an interview. To earn more I would have to either move to the highest level role for my job type or switch industries, for now I'm happy with the flexibility and low stress that my job provides. I'm also very passionate about my work which is a huge plus but not something I've had (or particularly tried to get) in the past.

I really think that women should be more direct in talking about money and pursuing higher salaries, especially before having children as most often it's the woman who will take the financial/career set back. Even if you earnings all go into one pot, taking time off usually means not contributing to pension and losing years of salary progression.

I work for NHS (corporate setting, not clinical) and our band 7s and 8s are never in the office. All work from home. Swan into the office every now and then to have a look round and then leave at lunch time.

Meanwhile it’s us band 2s and 3s that are keeping the service running. In the office everyday, locking up the building at the end of the day, dealing with incidents, reporting and escalating any situations when the 7s and 8s are blissfully unaware and have no idea what is actually going on.

I can only imagine what it’s like on the wards.

Are many of the band 7s and 8s women?

42

88k + ~6k bonus

Engineering Consultancy (construction)

£72 incl bonus. Senior Manager in Media. Age nearly 49. Feel v fortunate, don’t take my job for granted.

I used to think this about band 7s and 8s, until I became a band 7 and the workload and stress is different but more intense I find.

I am usually described as a very calm, laidback person but yesterday I expect I surprised a few people as I probably outwardly showed stress for the first time!!

35
£46k
University lecturer

Five years ago I was living on a £13k PhD stipend, so £46k feels like a lot.

I’m on a good wage but got an early break getting into IT lower management and working my way up.

the IT knowledge also helps getting into Project Manager roles as many others are very business focused

Average UK salary 2022: £27,756.

Is the game to see how far away from this you can get while still claiming to have an ‘average’ salary?