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…

I know a couple of very savvy people that do project manager/consultant type roles on a contract basis implementing IT projects particularly within the financial sector.

Paid very very well and have built up very credible reputations (invited back to run future projects etc). They then were very savvy in property investment which has allowed them to pick up projects as and when they want and take weeks/months off in between/dictate hours etc (ie combinations of hybrid and flexible working, 3/4 day weeks etc) so I would slightly disagree that there isn’t flexibility there but I think you have to really walk the walk but also know how to make temp. Consultation/project management roles work for you.

Just to add, in the industries I mentioned I have a lot of colleagues who seem to get paid a lot for not doing much, and have flexibility around kids pick up etc.

oooh also adding cybersecurity/adjacent have awhole host of roles!
SOC analyst, Information security officer, security policies and governance. not just hackers lol they're the smallest batch actually. And companies usually contract these out to 3rd party firms.

I did contracting in IT a few years back. I made £400 a day and that was a low rate. I made ~£100k a year on that rate. I know people now on £600 plus day rates.

What's your job?

I work in tech as a Product Manager. I earn close to this bracket, and I could definitely reduce my hours without impacting on my prospects.

BUT! There is a really important caveat to this: I can only be this confident about it because of the specific company I work for. It absolutely would NOT be the case anywhere else I have worked in the past 20 years.

The difference seems to be (in my experience at least) the size of the company - the bigger they are, the more likely they have (and stick to) HR policies that promote different ways of working and protect part time workers from discrimination. My current employer is a large multinational with 100,000+ employees globally, and they are really hot on this sort of stuff.

Chartered Accountant, Lawyer in a good sized law firm, GP, Hospital doctor at consultant level, headteacher, MP, some engineers, successful small business owner in pretty much any field...

Yes, I agree. I also think a lot of accounting/ finance roles will disappear.

Policy work pays that kind of money at more senior levels and the hours are flexible with opportunities to go part time. While well paid jobs often involve longer hrs they generally tend to come with a fair amount of flexibility in my experience.

Isn’t that always the way though? The managers on the most seem to do none of the heavy lifting and pick and choose the hours they do while the ones at the bottom are working 10/12 hour shifts and sometimes are quite literally cleaning up the shit.

I earn just below 80 and work in energy although am not an engineer. Mainly from home, DH and Good friends of mine earn over 100k in salaried IT jobs.

This is a fair point. Most of them are pretty capable of setting their own hours and as long as they work hard can earn that.

Are you interested in jobs where you can work less or more flexibly? Because my experience is that seniority comes with more flexibility (it goes both ways) but that it is generally harder to go formally part time the more senior you are. A lot of the need for going part time is lost when you can work really flexibly anyway though. For instance both parents doing 5 days in 4 is effectively the same as one going part time to 3 days.

It's also worth pointing out that no one knows if going part time actually impacted their career progression. For me, I'm pretty sure it will over the next couple of years but the longer term projection might be the same. I don't think it'd necessarily the part time bit so much as the very young kids though!

Not in my experience - I know plenty of very senior women (and a few men!) who have worked compressed / reduced hours in the civil service or who have taken career breaks with no impact. Just look at sue grey!

and yes scs pay band 1 starts at £73k but the top of the scale is well above OPs aspiration.

I work in Finance and know several women whose full time salary would be in this bracket, and who were able to go part-time after having a baby (myself included). If the employer is big enough, they can find similar-level work (maybe not returning to the exact same role, for obvious reasons) and would prefer not to lose the talent and corporate knowledge that they've invested in. Also they don't want to get their arses sued if they deny part-time working for reasons that can be reasonably refuted.

I'm an in house lawyer and I earn in that salary range. I don't work particularly long hours either. I have 10 years' post qualification experience.

I’m an educational psychologist working 3.5 days a week, term time only. I earn about 75k a year. Full time would be about 100k.

Ir’s a great job- intellectually stimulating and helpful. Lots of professional freedom and opportunities. It’s so easy to work around family life- I’ve never worked school holidays. Downsides is years of training ( to doctorate level) and slogging it out in a Local Authority before heading into independent practice.

@randomusername2020 if you're looking for flexibility, then as I said

Service delivery managers
Service managers
Program managers

All are usually wfh roles, with flexibility and can be 80+ a year employed, or 600+ day rates if contracting

MP, Sales Consultants in B2B business with good commission schemes, Senior Managers/ Department Directors in ftse 250 and equivalent firms.

Senior developers, Senior Data Scientists

it’s such a broad answer - a lot of companies once you go up to a certain level will hit this mark; if you are looking out of training roles not that many

I’ve been job hunting recently. I’ve been really surprised to see what Executive Assistant’s in London earn. A lot are £50k plus but I saw one that was £80k. It’s basically a posh PA. London seems to be where the big money is though and I don’t live there sadly 😢

@ThirdAidKit My son is 25 and works in networks and comms and hardware and is on £36k in London. The only guys he knows on £100k are company owners, short term contractors with very very specialist skills and coders with very very particular skills

I agree, I think that larger companies are more flexible but the impact of PT on 'prospects' is nuanced.
My large company has a lot of people and processes - quite a few who've been around a while, networked etc know how to get things done. They've been treated very well , a few even asked to go for promotion on mat leave and gone straight into the new role upon coming back PT.
Someone who's just joined and gone off PT won't get the same opportunity though because they haven't put in the groundwork.
Equally it depends on the dept - some are seen as 'cost centers' and constantly under resourced, you are the only person doing the work and if you go PT you'll just have to squeeze all your work into less time.

IMO a good boss is most important. Mine successfully navigates stuff to get us higher pay etc., My former boss, in the same company couldn't give a toss and that's why he's lost almost all of the cohort that joined with me, in a tech recruitment drive.

Specific roles that DH and I have experience of are Chartered Accountant / Head of Finance in industry and Business Director / Project Manager managing large civil engineering projects. DH in theory could reduce his hours and it probably wouldn't affect his career progression. I left finance as my supposedly 4 day / 30 hour week was frequently 60-70 hours. I'm sure some accountants make reduced hours work but I never could.

Senior officer in the armed forces - DH is ex-military, he left after 20 years service on about £75k, so if he'd stayed on for a few more years he'd likely have been in your bracket. Obviously a career in the armed forces is not to be entered into lightly!

He now works for a research think tank and senior research leaders are on £80k+

Yep. My husband told me about it around 10 years ago, and damn, he was right 😬