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Annual salary if you work 16hrs a week & what do you do

56 replies

Juiceorjuice · 09/11/2022 21:18

I’m thinking of looking for a job 16 hrs a week..I haven’t worked in a while and this is what would work with situation at mo. If you work 16 -ish hours a week and you’re happy sharing your annual salary, please do, and share what job you do. TIA

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honiedparsnip · 11/11/2022 06:23

Why not look for the job you want and the salary you want and work back from there how many hours you need to do?

DoubleNit · 11/11/2022 06:24

£8320 if I worked 16 hours. I'm a housekeeper in a hotel.

Chomolungma · 11/11/2022 06:25

I used to work 0.5 FTE (18.5 hours) when my kids were younger and I earned around £20k. University lecturer.

Sausagedoggy · 11/11/2022 06:26

Personal trainer. 25k for fewer than 16 hours.

BryceQuinlanTheFirst · 11/11/2022 06:27

Freelance marketing, I charge a high day rate

Dox9 · 11/11/2022 06:29

17hr 30K admin in public sector non-managerial but quite niche and I have 10+ years experience. Most PT jobs pay very little and I know I am lucky to have this job.

Monkeytapper · 11/11/2022 06:30

19.5 hours, so half a week about £11k..Receptionist

boatahoy · 11/11/2022 06:35

Not sure how helpful lists of jobs and salaries are as some of these require years of education and training. If we knew your previous employment experience, skills, qualifications, etc, we may be able to come up with some career ideas for you?

PermanentTemporary · 11/11/2022 06:39

I work in a clinical NHS job but it needs a degree. Unfortunately my Trust doesn't do 2 day contracts certainly in our team any more (they used to), they ask for a minimum of 3 days which is 22.5 hours.

HalfasleepChrisintheMorning · 11/11/2022 07:18

2 days at £15k per day per annum, would be £75k per year FT. However IME productivity drops working FT as a dentist.
10 years ago I worked FT NHS and earned 60k, but am now private so 75k sounds reasonable.
Very happy on 2 days though!
And yes 4 As at A level and a 5 year degree.

BarbaraofSeville · 11/11/2022 07:24

Surely you're looking at it the wrong way round as your skills, qualifications and experience dictate your pay more than the number of hours you work?

If I dropped a few hours (tapering down to retirement so I will probably move down to 3 x 6 hour days at some point) my salary would be about £24k. But that is for a professional role. yes I know it's a pittance for MN, but that's the reality of the sector I work in and there are other perks.

But if you're looking for part time work from scratch or aren't currently employed/qualified, you'll likely be looking at NMW or slightly above (eg Aldi have recently announced they're going to pay all their store assistants at least £11 ph).

So that would be 11 x 16 x 52 = just over £9k pa. If it was a true NMW job, it would obviously be less than that.

HalfasleepChrisintheMorning · 11/11/2022 07:26

It depends what you do. In my job, the number of hours you work directly correlates to pay.

honiedparsnip · 11/11/2022 07:42

What work experience do you have?

RewildingAmbridge · 11/11/2022 07:48

I would earn about 20k, but unless you have a particular degree, post graduate qualifications, lots and lots of experience in several adjacent fields and frankly interview really well against candidates with the same, you wouldn't get my job. It's a very niche one in the MOJ. Lots of people in my field want this job and despite applying multiple times won't get it.
What skills and experience do you have? Can you work unsocial hours, can you travel? Do you have any qualifications?

Artygirlghost · 11/11/2022 08:24

Work 21h a week for £26k. Marketing Manager.

familyissues12345 · 11/11/2022 09:08

I'm on about 9k a year - working 16 hours for a family charity

SeasideRock · 11/11/2022 10:23

Just over 32k for 2 days FTE. I’m an Executive Head tho’, so it is highly unlikely I’d be able to go part-time. Education leadership is terrible for flexible working…

Peekachoochoo · 11/11/2022 20:13

ConkerBonkers · 10/11/2022 22:28

Peekachoochoo get your calculator back out!

£20k for 16 hours equates to £100k for 40 hours

No, 20k for 16 hours equates to about 50k for 40 hours. It breaks down to 10k for 8 hours and you can work up from there :)

Oh yeah, it's been a long week..... Grin

You'll be glad to hear I don't work in Finance.

xPeaceX · 11/11/2022 20:16

Interesting, I'd love to have three week days free. Is there very little tax on your salries

MyCrumpetIsCold · 11/11/2022 20:21

Approx 9k in retail. I wouldn’t recommend it.

astronewt · 11/11/2022 20:34

I don't think there's a lot of point in people saying what their salaries would be if they only worked 16 hours, because precisely the point about most skilled jobs is that you can't do them in 16 hours, you need to be there more consistently.

There are exceptions, principally professions allied to medicine (doctors, dentists, physios) where you simply see fewer patients. But if you aren't trained in one of those and you only want to work 16 hours you're probably looking at NMW or not far above.

Juiceorjuice · 12/11/2022 00:25

Thanks for all the replies - very helpful to understand the range and type of jobs. Take the point that I also need to look at it from pov of how much I need to earn to make it work and what experience and skills I can use. I haven’t worked in a while and never really liked my old admin job so looking for alternatives. Daunting road ahead!

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shivawn · 12/11/2022 09:38

I get around €45-48k (depending on the number of nights, weekends and bank holidays) working 30 hours as nurse so half that would be €22.5k-24k.

astronewt · 12/11/2022 09:52

Having said what I said above... it just occurred to me that after-school nannying is about 16 hours a week and very much in demand in a lot of places right now. Enough demand that you can ask a good wage. It's an awkward set of working hours though, hence the imbalance of demand and supply.

prescribingmum · 12/11/2022 11:50

Was previously a senior pharmacist working for NHS, earned roughly £23k for 15 hrs/week. Only did those hours for short while but the career does lend itself well to part time working.

Im in private sector now, earn a lot more and increased my hours. They would never offer my current role for 15hrs/week so null point what the pro rata salary would be.

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