What jobs pay some 80k - 100k+

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Posting here for traffic. Also, I’m on decent salary and don’t intend to retrain.

However, on a different thread (people discussing a different topic; the new free childcare hours introduced by the government) some people said they were earning salaries in the above ranges and were able to increase or reduce their hours without any impact on promotion opportunities etc.

I’m interested what the jobs are. Loooooong way away, and things will likely change by then but I’m thinking if I was to provide options to my DCs in the future…. Of course it will be down to them and if they end up being in low paid jobs nothing wrong with that…

Ps for those saying it can take 20 years - not necessarily. 10-12 years for DH and I with relevant 2:1 degrees, professional qualifications if appropriate (ie accountancy) and good commitment.

I’m in Big 4 accountancy, and can flex my hours (but would need my employers permission to formally reduce/increase them but I think they would be forthcoming) and we specifically measure and target part time promotes etc so it wouldn’t impact promotion prospects

Finance at director level. Higher grades of Civil Service. It's a myth that the hours are ridiculous – they're not. My DH has job hopped in high level finance for 10+ years. He's always worked 9-5 and picked up kids from school twice a week, never worked evenings and weekends. He does his job well and is firm on his work life balance.

Ok mine is flexible to a degree but I am client chargeable so have to clock a certain number of hours a week. And at my level I am a point of escalation so I realistically that means working core business hours so I'm available for clients. I work longer hours than our Partners though and they earn 3 times what I do. They've done my job though so no. Not flexible enough for you.

My bil fits into your criteria though. He does 15/20 hours per week but it's his own business he and a friend built from scratch (also niche recruiting). He didnt give up his day job for years as the business grew so essentially worked 2 jobs but then it flew just when he was offered voluntary redundancy. So hard graft, risk and luck. But he's now earning over 200k and plays ALOT of golf.....

Comments like these show how misunderstood roles / jobs are. Not a dig at you but there is a massive lack of education at school level about what can be achieved.

I'm AD level in the private sector with a team of two direct reports, 85K, work winning in corporate real estate / strategic advisory. My career suffered when I was PT for kids but have now caught up. Potential to go to 110+. Not bonus linked.

My hours are generally normal but yes sometimes have to pull an all nighter or a few nights of working to midnight. I work flexibly from home and as long as no deadlines it is very family friendly.

You don't just walk into roles like this though, you have to put in the donkey work in the beginning and also change roles regularly, that is the best way to increase earning power.

I'm in investment banking, husband is an accountant in media. Above salary ranges for both although I work 80% now, 4 days so am paid for 80% of course and having 3 kids means I am going in and do a good job but there is going above and beyond which you need in my line of business to get promoted.

It depends. My ‘normal’ work life is very flexible, my boss lets me get on with it and assumes I’m putting in my 40 hours a week.

During covid there were weeks when I was working 7 day weeks and where I was working 7am to 11pm as I had a lot of responsibility for the physical supply of vaccines into London and simply had to be available.

@randomusername2020 haha, I like this. Also saw your other post about maybe starting a new thread.

I posted on the other thread now asking this same question. I shall report back if the few people are happy to share 😁

"Tech" can encompass very many things obviously, but Data Science, coding etc, seems very well paid. Working "in IT" as in IT support, less so. Same for finance, if you work in retail banking, you're not likely to be well paid. But work for investment bank/as an accountant for a big firm, and you're likely to be well paid. Financial management can be well paid, but will depend on the company, smaller companies are likely to be pay less well. Things like marketing/PR, can also be well paid. I think the biggest piece of advice I'd give my DC is that you DO NOT need to work in a very long hours highly stressful job, in order to be well paid. They do not need to qualify to be a solicitor, or a doctor, burning themselves out, to be well renumerated. If I was suggesting a career that would fall into the highly paid low stress category, I'd suggest something like data science or coding. My OH is a data scientist, and he is comparatively very well paid. He does not work long hours at all, and his job is not particularly stressful.

And he's deffo flexible.

@randomusername2020 by tech I mean Information Technology (IT), you can work in an IT department for a company that's not related to IT, the likes of M&S, Magnet, Tesco - anything really, or work for an IT company providing services to other companies

Contracting can be anything from none technical staff such as Service Managers, service delivery managers or programme managers. To technical roles, 3rd line support engineers, security engineers, experts in SDWan are in high demand with a day rate of £800 plus.

I would say 5-10 years max for these industries:
accountancy
law
other finance roles, broker etc
Architect or design manager at director level
Estate strategy
sales

You can go 4 days a week after mat leave in many professional roles these days

Actuaries can earn this much or almost once qualified in London

Also in terms of flexibility, I'm in the office 2 days, husband is in the office. Rest is from home. There isn't much flexibility in hours but we work 9-05:30 although I can often leave at 5. I feel quite lucky really.

Given that ChatGPT recently passed a number of law bar exams in the US (and in the top 10% at that), I don’t think this is a question we can answer now. A lot of the ‘high paying’ jobs will be irrelevant by the time young children are at that stage.

Senior civil service roles could offer that salary and a high degree of flexibility, including the ability to drop hours/days. It will impact on progression in that you’ve got less time to acquire the evidence needed for your next move. But at such a high level that may be less of an issue.

I work in patents and earn 80K, 9-5.30 mostly (though sometimes later if something needs to be done because of a deadline).

It’s a hard job and very stressful but rewarding.

I have a PhD and it takes around 5 years after that to pass all the exams.

Software companies pay sales people and account managers and customer success managers between £80-£120k per annum and if you hit sales targets in those roles you can double your basic.

Interestingly, I know so many people who earn very well, in quite low stress/hours jobs, who are qualified accountants. They're mostly no longer accountants, and work in a variety of sectors/roles, but getting that qualification via one of the Big 4 certainly seems to open lots of doors. It's obviously no fun at all doing the training, but that seems worthwhile for the career opportunities available once you've done it for a few years.

No need to be spiky about it.

In answer to the flexibility aspect, I don't think that comes with many jobs that come with high salaries until much later on. In my opinion, the higher up you climb, the more flexibility you have. With the example i previously gave, my husband has a lot of flexibility now because he is his own boss. And even before that, when he was a director of someone else's business he had a lot of flexibility as there were other people to "run" the business while he was away. We take long (4 week+) holidays with the children while they're not in school yet, and he leaves for work at 8am and is home normally between 6/7pm so does see the children before bed. In very busy periods he does longer hours but it's by no means the norm. When he was working his way up he did very long hours though, but I think there are very few jobs which don't require long hours and a lot of hard work, while you're trying to establish yourself in a particular field.

If the OP is looking for a job that pays £80-100k from day 1 with a lot of flexibility, I can't really think of any suggestions.

Software engineer for a bank or tech company

Also I can adjust my hours (as long as I am available core working hours) and work from home. Many people go part time because of childcare.

Oh and as to flexibility, these jobs can be done from home and you run your own diaries so within reason can do school runs, appointments, work from anywhere with WiFi, etc