To ask if you earn £75k per year?

[Bizkwit]

How long did it take you to get there and what line of work are you in?

How long did it take you to get to £50k and then from £50k-£75k

From 18-22 years old admin jobs earning £18k-22k. Age 22 til now (30) salary of £51k with lots of overtime so annually £75k-£85k, could make more. All with the same company in the rail industry.

I've worked in the same company since 2014 when I started as a graduate. We were a small professional services firm that has since become part of a larger company.

I started on £20,000 and I now earn £75,000. Every pay rise (in increments of 3k to £10k) has been linked to a promotion / increase in responsibility and I am now at a senior leadership level.

50k @ 30
75k @ 33
I started my career late @ 24

contract management

I'm 39. Started as a grad age 25, a few years of graft learning and shadowing, taking shit:

2010 - £23,000 Graduate
2011 - £23,750 + £1,000 bonus
2012 - £30,000 + £1,500b
2013 - £35,000 + £1,500b
2014 - £36,000 + £1,500b
2014 - £36,000 + 5,200 car alwnce
2015 - £36,750 + 5.2k car allowance

2016 - £32,000 + 4k car allowance (changed jobs with slight pay decrease to get chartered) then its rocketed;

2017 - £60,000
2018 - £61,500

2019 - £63,345 + £9k bonus
2019 - £70,000
2021 - £80,000 +3,640 bonus
2022 - £90,000 + 26k bonus
2023 - £93,600 + £26k bonus again

Looking even better for 2024.

Yes exactly £75k.

Head of digital marketing.

I'm 42 and career has been:

24: web coordinator (18k)

27: web editor (27k)

32: Digital Marketing Executive (£34k)

35: Digital marketing manager (£45k)

38: Senior marketing manager (£60k)

41: Head of digital marketing (£75k)

I work in residential development now as a Director.

DS is 26yo is on £77k a year. Lawyer 4 years qualified.

32 years qualified vet. Not a chance of ever earning that.
FTE 54k

In sales plus some property income
No a levels or degree

24 £11k moved job
29 £23k - poached by another company
30 £31k - poached again
32 £45k - poached again, left on £75k 16 years later
Now freelance consultant for past 3 years and varies, but around £150k, age 51

76k in rental income from properties. I've never had a job (SAHM), but I inherited some money many years ago and bought property with it.

I have got a DPhil which I loved doing, but never really had any desire to have a job.

@escapingthecity what type of comms out of interest for DC?

50-83k in about 4 years was going from manager to senior manager, then adding a few direct reports.

£19k-£25k (3 years)
£36-£45k (5 years)
£60k-£75k (5 years)
£100k- current role ( 1 year)

currently 36, so this is all from starting career at 22

I think the moral of these tales is don’t work in the public sector 😳😳😩😄

I had my children young after completing an initial university degree and travelling the world etc. I returned to the full time work of work in my mid 30's and then completed post grad degrees including a PhD.
I'm now a senior academic earning £90k but then do additional expert witness work which often takes my income to over £120k per year. I'm now late (ish) 40's.

Charity director. From uni till £75K took about 10 years.

26k @ 22
30k @ 28
50k @ 30
70k @ 35
85k @ 39

Education so term time only. Took on a specialist role between 28 and 30 hence the big pay increase. Then had two promotions.

I, and a lot of my friends, earn more than 200k per year.
What do we do?
Major European airline pilot
Professor of Mathematics
Senior Diplomat
Senior It Programme Manager
Senior Banking Manager
Senior Doctor(s)
Director in major (global) engineering firm
However, you need 25+ experience.

Chartered accountant

Left uni, - training contract on 26k
3 years in - qualified, salary 40k
18m later - moved to new job: 60k
Gradual increases over 10 years to 95k.
Then moved to 130k, then couple of years later to 150k.

(Not including any bonuses/share awards etc).

London.

Was in a highly-paid graduate career in the 90s and earning 75k at age 29 in 2000/2001. What would that be equivalent to now? Maybe 120/130k?
Had kids, did a very part-time role in something creative which was lovely as was around for my family (plus aforementioned high-powered career was not compatible with kids in those days) but now I'm in my early 50s 20 years later as a corporate 'returner' earning 75k which with inflation means I earn far less in real terms than when I was 29. Maybe 40 per cent less. More to life than money but I feel annoyed that I haven't fulfilled my early potential and am now stuck. But I also appreciate 75k is far more than average and am grateful.

18-36 up to 28-30k but working between 26-30 hours pw in NHS
36-38 37 - 44k, went from 30 hrs to 37.5 pw in this time accounting for some of the rise.
38-40 55-72k more specialised role and benefited from some pay restructuring in my favour. If I stay in this job which I really love then I’ll max out at around 80k in the next few years.

Yep! 😅

Had children in my early 20’s so maternity leaves were done and dusted and my children are adults/late teens now which I think helped as I could focus on my career.

I'm a business owner so not salaried as such but 50k by year 2 and 75k by year 4.

It's been 25-150k+ there after and no year is the same, it's currently rubbish so I'm going to start looking further roles around the 75k range so finding this really interesting.