How much has your salary increased in last five years

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Just realized that I've been with my employer for five years - checked our salary scales and in that time my salary has increased by 20k. On the one hand, feels like I should feel richer but on the other with prices going up as well as interest rates on our mortgage, it feels like we are no better off now. Changing employers won't help as we are on nationally negotiated payscales. How much have your earnings gone up in last 5 five years?

I know what you mean. I had a promotion last year so my salary (and responsibility) have gone up. But it does feel like in real terms, even a promotion is only keeping me on an even keel. It's frustrating because I'm doing extra work for what feels like the same return.

This is an interesting website. You can put in what you earned in say, 2018, and see what it would be worth now.

If you earned £25k in 2018, for example, that's the equivalent of £30,185 now.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

That’s good, though. I’m private sector and have gone up by less than £1,000.

£12k but that's entirely due to promotion. Civil service in ALB that is paid less than governmment dept., department one of worst paid. No pay bands, we all stay on the bottom.

I’m clearly in the wrong job. Interested to know what you all do as sometimes I would like to change jobs.

HCP…no salary increase in last 5 years.
and only around a £2k increase in about 10years, I’m top of my band, not interested in going into management just yet as children still very young.

4 promotions in that time increasing my salary by £57k. That’s more than I was on 5 years ago so blows my mind.

@spelunky thank you. Just checked and essentially I have been standing still especially when you include interest rate rises. It demoralizing

I've gone from £26k to £72k but that's promotions and a company change rather than inflation increases.

£65k increase with 2 promotions.

£21k but I’ve been promoted twice during that time so taken on lots more responsibility. I think promotions are relevant as you can’t compare a small salary rise to a big one where the former hasn’t wanted to take on more responsibility/management roles.

£18k. Combination of going back to full time instead of 4 days, then changing role to a better pay scale, then changing employer for a more senior role.

None. I've stayed in the same job for years.

40ish but that includes going from part time back to full time

Mine has only gone up a reasonable amount in the private sector because I was willing to take on management responsibilities even though I have young DC. To get decent pay rises in most places you have to do that usually.

Mine has doubled - primarily due to promotions (public sector)

It definitely doesn't feel like it has doubled

Total comp (salary, cash car allowance, bonus) increased by £50k, however that includes 2 company changes and 2 promotions.
I’ll be on this level and broadly this income for years to come as I’ve reached some seniority and have a preschooler and a baby.

I usually leave a company if, within 18-24 months, I haven’t seen:

• Giving me opportunities to grow and get more responsibilities
• A chance to get promoted
• Material recognition of extra effort

I went from part time to full time last year + £2k pay increase. So I'm up £10k.

£38 k to £95 k due to new job and promotion.

Don’t notice it because I put every spare penny into clearing mortgage ( single patient )
Mortgage ends in June so I’ll see the benefits then .

I feel incredibly blessed … I also help family out with money .. privilege to be able to do so .

I know I’m very lucky .

None, because I was working full time then and I now work 3 days.

Regardless we got up 500 a year so would be about 2500 if I'd stayed full time.

🙄 single parent

Mine has only gone up because I’ve gone from 4 to 5 days. However as a result I’ve lost the benefits I got so no impact on my lifestyle except that I love my new more.

I charged £30 to £35 for 1 hour in 2019 and now I charge £45 to £50 for 1 hour. I’m self employed.

I’m aware of that, and was management pre children but stepped away when I realised I couldn’t do the job properly and raise a family solo. My husband is a hospital doctor and never around and I have no family to cover the antisocial hours that I was required to work. Youngest starts school soon and perhaps I’ll consider it then. I do think it’s a shame that good HCP have to go into management over staying frontline to get the pay rise though. I personally find management much easier than some patient facing roles.

60k (this is double what I was paid and I was top of the scale) but I have left local government and moved into the private world where I am clawing myself up the ladder.

I have found that many companies are willing to pay £££ in my industry and offer flexibility and other perks like local authority’s do, pension may be be as fantastic but I have upped my pension contributions quite significantly to help this.

If I go up to the next step I will be paid over 100k a year but want to make sure I nail all of this job first so I am completely robust in my skills

£3,000 - I work in the public sector, by reading everyone else’s responses, I am definitely in the wrong job!

Gone from 26.5k in early 2018 to 68.5k now - although I’m 0.8 FTE so it’s 55k ish.

Mainly through moving around, promotions and really negotiating hard. Now paying mortgage and childcare, which I didn’t have in 2018.