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

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

p.s: and mum of 2!

Hi OP I've not read RFTF cardinal sin. I'm genuinely interested though in the AIBU aspect of your thread and to what purpose does it REALLY serve?
I am a midwife over 30yrs in NHS I earn just over 40k per year how does this information assist you in your life?

I’m on £42k - mid level lawyer, husband on similar - low level banking

Feel permanently broke and frustrated we’re not as rolling in it as our colleagues seem to be.

It’s enough to live on and maintain a half decent life. But multiple holidays abroad a year, private school, fancy cars? No chance.

I pity anyone on an ‘average’ salary; it’s not average, it’s a conspiracy that makes you accept less than you’re worth!

38; £60k plus bonuses; d&i in the private sector. Single mum of three.

not sharing this to brag, sharing this as I was a SAHM for years, started working in my field 6 years ago part time and have ruthlessly pursued progression opportunities to ensure that I can provide for my family.

I do feel guilty about my salary, but not because I don’t earn it- but because workers are exploited massively in the uk. Please don’t berate other women for earning good salaries, instead question why you aren’t being given a salary that you deserve.

Age 37
54k (band 8a)
NHS

2 children

We are and that is why NHS staff are striking. Not only for a fair wage but for better working conditions staff retention and patient experience.

It’s in the midlands.

I’m not a head of dept, I’m essentially the deputy so middle management. It’s an office based construction role. It’s one of those jobs that people don’t really understand but is historically well paid.

Happy for you to PM me if you want more info.

53
£110k
Media

Plenty of people are going on strike to question their working conditions and pay. And then there are numerous threads popping up on MN and in the news etc, to berate these people, telling them they already get paid quite well and their benefits like pensions (NHS staff especially) that most of them won't be receiving for 20/30/40 years are worth more than being able to feed themselves/pay their bills right now. It's very easy for someone on £60k to say throw away comments like ' question why you aren't being given a salary you deserve' but in the real world you can't just demand things and get them.

These kind of threads are always depressing because they are dominated by people earning above average who want people to know about it. I doubt many lower earners (the majority) will be even reading.

If you took the average salary stated in here it would be so much higher than the national average as to be laughable. Pride is a powerful emotion, clearly.

Yep, some people love these threads, cannot wait to come on and announce their massive salaries. Then there’s the people earning 20-25K (yep even in frigging London/SE where it’s still perfectly normal for this to be a typical wage for some jobs).

Coming on here to represent the masses...age 55, single, university administrator on 23k. Very happy in my work and that counts for more than salary to me; although I admit the cost of living crisis is begining to sting.

I'm an office worker on £33k and frankly it's a source of personal embarrassment that I'm paid more than many nurses, carers and other key public servants. I'd happily pay more tax to help close the gap.

so you agree with the point of my ‘throw away comment’.

People are striking, quite rightly, to demand better working conditions- my whole point was to ensure you’re challenging employers, not criticising people lucky enough to have employers who pay them a decent salary.

@BetterDrownedThanDuffer i am the same as you in terms of not rolling in it 🙄. My DH and I are on £90k between us and I feel on this we SHOULD be able to afford multiple abroad hols, private school, spend without thinking as it puts us in the top 9% or something, but we just can’t..nursery fees and big mortgage seems to eat it all up with barely enough to put into savings (I realise I am very fortunate and people have worse problems). And we are in the North! Feel sorry for people on ‘average salaries’ in London

40 - £40k- office manager

65 kids
glass hammer and stripy paint creator
£5.41 a year

36
£150k plus 30% bonus
Lawyer

31, 125k, Machine Learning Researcher/Engineer