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…

Finance and Fintechs. I know places like JPMorgan are big on job flexing now and pushing a lot of programmes around returners to work and job share type roles but still can offer salaries to those rates(though pro-rata)

EA roles in finance/tech industries pay around 80K.

law or finance. I don’t know anyone qualified in those areas who earn £100k.

Under £100k that should have said!

My partner earns that now, he had to put in a lot of travelling and hours in the early days, but since children he did a side step, ultimately lost a bonus and reduced his salary, and does a lot less travelling and does no more than 40 hrs a week. This further impact’s promotion prospects but he’s happy he gets paid very well and has balance. He’s in IT.

Haven’t read the entire thread but actuaries, corporate secretaries and medics can earn those salaries and part time roles exist at a senior level.

Not every person but some in these roles earn 80k+:

secondary school leadership teams (heads/deputies/associates)
primary school heads
Academy Trust CEO
education consultants
doctors/consultants
electricians
gas fitters/engineers
builders/trades persons
charity sector CEO

I am looking for work at the minute but work in financial sales basic usually around 40k uncapped commission. Last year I worked 9 months for £65k so a full year would have been 80 to 100k. Other half is in Tech VP of Rich Media and gets 80 basic plus bonus

School teaching pays that much, in an ordinary state school ... in Luxembourg.

Finance director in civil service?

can be stressful - but get into the right roel balms you could reduce to four day week without any impact on future promotion.

Ohhhh I have another! My dhs school friend is a plasterer. He is an exceptionally good one and picks and chooses his jobs. I don't know exactly what he earns but he does high end prestige type work.

But he worked as his dad's labourer from 16 and is now 50. He did all the donkey work as a lad but also has a real skill (he's way better than his dad and his brother who are also perfectly reasonable in the same trade).

Staring salary only about 28k though round here ( south east)

I'm in tech, I hit £80K about 10 years ago as a Project Director.

I now sit nearer £140K as a Vice President.

When I look around the parents at DD's school (private) they are:

• Lawyers (largely corporate)
• Doctors (surgeons)
• Big Four Accountancy (Director or Partner)
• 'In finance' (I never know what that means)
• In Tech

I also have friends who work part time on those salaries doing mid-office roles in banks and at big 4 accountancy firms. Also a friend who is head of ESG on a part time role who would earn in that bracket

All the people I know in that salary bracket are in tech or finance (accountants and actuaries). There must be other careers though 😂

Lots of these are SCS pay band 1, so pay may be less than the £80k OP is asking about.

Also going to compressed hours probably would impact future promotion options.

DH works in TV post-production and earns in that range. I'm a teacher and it blows my mind he earns more than a Primary Headteacher. His job is significantly less stressful and carries much less responsibility.

DH is on 6 figs in tech and works 6am-3 or 4pm ish so fits in nicely with the school hours. Working from home generally and used to travel lots but now maybe once a quarter if that. I’d say tech is pretty flexible tbh!

Engineering if they are good at maths. I know several engineers in the energy industry earning upwards of £100k

Staring salary only about 28k though round here ( south east)

Obviously people have to build skills and experience to earn decent salaries in the vast majority of cases? Do you think there should be careers where people are recruited to start immediately as a trainee on £100k?

I work in tech business development.. I make way over the salary you're describing.

It's high pressure, but really worth it.

Tech business development/ or the more boring software sales.

oil industry

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Yeah exactly, I don't think people who say 'tech' or 'IT' actually know anything. For starters in the industry 'IT' usually refers to support roles and the like that aren't a route to megabucks. Not saying nobody can make money - even the senior managers of charities make a killing, but that's not a sub area people go into for the money.

Software developer - frontend, backend, full stack.
Infrastructure engineers. Security engineers. DevOps engineers. Pentesters.
Product management, project management. Service management for a large firm.
Account managers (both technical and sales).
UI/UX designers. Test engineers.

And like many things... in a lot of these roles new entrants are a dime a dozen. Skilled people are much harder to find. The ability to make good money as an 'average' varies between roles. While if you're in, say Audit for the Big4 in London promotion to a certain level is pretty much guaranteed unless you mess up really badly, solely because of the attrition.

Finance : easily 90K upwards depending on seniority.

The people I know who earn that much are: engineers, IT - either contractors (developers) or in security, chartered surveyors, accountants (director level), GPs, run own business doing fire safety, senior civil servant, senior leader in HE. Most are pretty flexible as are senior so can set own time. But have had to work hard to get there. I earn just below that in HE PSS, very flexible and WFH. DH earns just below in IT - software development (also v flexible).