Between the ages of 28-32 what do you earn outside London?

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Just wondering as I feel like times are tough and maybe should be on more

28 £55K publishing management

Scotland and make 17,000 😣

South East, engineering. Masters degree and 7 years industry experience post-graduation. 38K.

DH is the same age and earns 43K. After recent pay rises and promotions we are just beginning to feel that we have a comfortable income.

29 years old, two degrees from a Russell Group university, and still only earning 18k
:(
Very few employment opportunities where I live, and I can't afford to move.

When I am 28 I will earn £46k (I'm a year off 28). DH is 30 and on £35k + bonus that's probably about 3-4K tops. He's a retail manager and I'm a project manager.

28 - 15k - 'on a course'
29 - 24k - 'trainee level'
30 - 28k - 'entry level with no experience'
31 - 38k - 'fully qualified with minimum experience'

All for the same job. Incredibly niche job, hugely hugely outing so cannot say as less than 10 women in this field.
I have friends who have done the same progression on the same course/path and are on less than 38k in London.
London wage for this job would be around 50-60k with experience. Experience is defined by additional levels and courses completed and about 5+ years at the fully qualified level. I am still only a baby in my field so my wage is pretty good for being in Midlands at my low level of experience

I'm 27, left school at 16 with Std Grades, did an apprenticeship in engineering and now earn £38k as a senior engineer. Thats in central belt Scotland.

Im feeling so inadequate! Id like to know what careers to encourage my kids into so they dont end up like me though.

All these 30/40k plus jobs seems so out of reach.

@SwimmingJustKeepSwimming I'll be encouraging my daughters to only go to university if its for a career related degree. I read a book called nice girls don't get the corner office when I was about 23 and after that my career took off. I have moved a couple of places since then always for more money and more responsibility.

I think as long as they go for something that has a route for progression then 30k by 30 (which was always my goal starting out) is achievable even outside of London. Now my goal is £40k by 30.

I know of people in their mid twenties who got speedy promotions and were on 50K
plus before thier 30th. Some worked really hard despite thier personal struggles and eventually got recognised/favoured whilst others had immense family support and connections in the industry who assisted them in paving the way. 🙈

It's not a levelled play field so comparing is irrelevant. We're not all going to travel the same path nor have identical life experiences. Just be grateful for what you have whilst continuing to work towards improvement. 😊

Sometimes comparing can be the killer of joy.

This isn't a level playing field. My parents were badly off when I was little and I never wanted that to happen to me. But they were both able to support me through school and then let me live at home in the holidays for my degree.

I got a good degree from a world class university, and that helped me get into a great accountancy firm. That then means I was on 50k when I was 25.

That's a totally different set of life circumstance than if I had decided to become an ecologist or work in the arts, and they aren't really comparable. The latter two are probably more societally valuable but are less valued by society in monetary terms.

Wow 50k by 25. I was so bright at school but was clueless jobwise.

I’m 32 and earn 75k as head of a function in a not-for-profit organisation. My husband earns twice that but he’s in a very different sector. We are both from lower to average-income families, state school educated but got good qualifications etc and have worked our way up.

@Swiftier by not for profit do you mean you work for a charity?

@Wintermonster no, I’m not working for a charity. It’s an organisation that has a public service function, it provides a service on a cost-recovery basis. So it doesn’t make a profit.

32, Chartered Surveyor (NOT a Building or Quantity Surveyor), have a degree, been qualified 7 years, on £44k.

Took 3 yrs of experience to qualify. Moved cities to get a better job after qualifying on a salary of £26k (first time in my life I was able to give up my evening/weekend bar job).

Quite an ageist profession I think. If you come into the profession later in life, your salary climbs quickly despite lack of experience.

Also @swiftier what does your DH do?!?

@NightAndShiningArmour

Would you expect a charters surveyor to earn more than a quantity or buildings surveyor?

@NightAndShiningArmour he’s a pilot. He had to borrow an enormous amount of money to train (all private loans as there’s no equivalent to a student loans system) and it took a long time to pay off so its only been fairly recently that we’ve felt comfortable.

I’m also keen to know more about the various surveyor roles!

fun fact

There are currently 22 different flavours of Chartered Surveyor (Chartered = Member of RICS). I’m one of the most common I think - I qualified in the “Commercial Real Estate” pathway. And I think I’m at the middle of the range of salaries for Chartered Surveyors my age.

Building Surveyors are generally at the lower end of the salary range, and Quantity Surveyors tend to be upper.

Management is probably one of the easiest to “get in to” if you’re happy to work in a big city, with most large, corporate firms (CBRE/JLL/Workman) having big management teams and will probably be well set up for on the job training (JLL used to be the best for getting qualified when I was training). And being half good at property management should see your salary rise quickly.

Mind the gender gap though. The image shows average salary by age and gender. This DOES include London figures, so will be lower in the regions.

Interesting!
I'm in the construction industry and a non officially qualified QS. I just assumed a Chartered surveyor is at the top level of all surveying jobs.

@NightAndShiningArmour, interesting - I have a friend who is in a similar field but considering qualifying as a surveyor (I’m not sure what type though). So interesting to see the age stats as she’d be going into it mid-thirties