How many hours do you work per week and for how much??

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Just that really, do you work part time or full time and what do you get paid for your job? Do you think it’s enough? Worth it? Etc

I’m currently working 36-40 hours a week for just over 1700 a month and I feel like it’s crap pay!? Just wondered how others felt and what position they were in.
If you don’t want to answer then don’t...just move on. It’s an anonymous forum so it’s no biggie!! ( also I have NC’d so not a troll)

Currently £39900 gross for 36 hours but going p/t in April and it will change to 26,600 for 24 hours.

My net pay doesnt match my gross though because i save £300 a month in a sharesave and overpay into my pension at 22%, but i am mortgage free and in my fifties so i can.

24hrs, £1200 a month. Would be £32k full time. Its not awful but not great considering I have a degree, a masters, and 15yrs experience. Public sector for you.

Am I the only one who hopes the op will put all this on a graph 🤔👍

I work 35 hours a week and get £2950 a month after tax.

37.5 hours a week for public sector, clearing about £2,900k. Once at top of my band (3 years) I'll clear about £3,600k.

I'm also a landlord and that nets me about £450 a month although I don't touch that.

40 hours officially about 20 hours extra
£5k a month

Looking at these, some of them are really well paid.
I am starting a job in a few weeks' time, it will be 27 hours a week but will pay only £10,000 per year....I think that will be around £800 or so a month?
I only wanted part-time work at my age; I have never worked part-time before so had no idea what to expect. But it does seem quite low. On the other hand I assume I shall pay no tax since I don't have any other income coming in?

Use the salary calculator website, it's very accurate. But I think you're right, you won't pay any tax.

35 hours, bring home approx £5,000 a month after taxes.

A lot of you are on very decent wages!
I'm a supervisor at around 40 hrs a week ( not including organising rotas ect on my days off) and I earn 22k a year bloody hard when your a single mum to a teenager with just child benefit and £15 pw tax credits no maintenance.

I work 3 days a week and paid a day rate of £100 a day - my day is 7.25 hours and I am satisfied that my salary is good for the hours I work.

40 hours for 2,800 before deductions. I feel well paid. I pay a lot into my pension as I started late and I have debts so probably have 500 after bills and travel to work for living and saving and food.

This thread has actually made me feel quite down! How can people be bringing in £4-5k a month, after tax?!

Wow my wage has got to be the lowest here Haha! Teaching assistant I work 32.5 hours a week and get £950...

TA here too. 26hours a week and bring home just over £1000 a month.

I work an average 35 hour week over 4 days. That's over a 52 week period.

Some weeks are nearer 38 hours. Some weeks are 31 hours.

I earn 63k pa for that. Take home is different most months as we also have to work some Sundays - 8 per year which are overtime. These may be 7 hour days or 9 hour days and are pair hourly.

Wow my wage has got to be the lowest here Haha! Teaching assistant I work 32.5 hours a week and get £950...

That's below NMW! Are you actually contracted 32.5 hours?

That's below NMW! Are you actually contracted 32.5 hours?

She is probably paid for 38 or 39 weeks per year but her annual earnings are then spread over the full 12 months so it may appear to be below NMW when it isn’t.

Our TAs are on around around £9.80 per hour. That’s £12103 over 38 weeks, 1008 per month, subtract NI and pension contributions...

Yeah contracted in Yorkshire. True about split over 52 weeks but only working 39ish though.

@WanderingMilly for this tax year you don't pay tax on anything under 12500 per year so no tax for you :) it's likely to be the same for next year but hasn't officially been announced yet as the November budget didn't happen due to all the Brexit stuff.

Most professional jobs have contracted hours, but people work far in excess of them......you work until the job is done. It's often not the case that the clock strikes 5 or whatever and you threfore get up and go home,nwit hour another thought of work until 9am the following day.

What surprises me is how many people are relatively poorly paid, but still have to work far in excess of contracted hours. I think that beyond a certain pay (woukd you say £50k or higher than that??) you have to expect to work extras as needed, but below that, the idea of working 20 excess hours per week isn't reasonable as its not renumerated.

The public sector seems to have lots of degree educated type jobs which pay between £30k-£45k - decent money, but not riches, but have a good sense of work life balance and there isn't the expectation of lots of extra hours. Some of those have good holidays, flexible arrangements and sometimes good pensions - so it's the entire package you have to look at, not just contracted hours and pay.

Personally I'd rather earn £40k for controlled hours, good holidays,msome flexibility and decent pension, than get £70k and need to effectively work 65 hour weeks and not have any flexibility and only 22 days holiday. But most people do t have a choice.

I work in the public sector, top of my band is just over £60k. If I work extra hours I get it back using flexi. I get 30 days leave plus all the public and privilege holidays. Part career average/final salary pension. If I chose to, I could go part time or term time.

I work beside many contractors who are on excess of £100k a year, but have zero benefits.

Each to their own, but I would rather stay where I am.

I work about five days a month and I get £1250 a month. It's all I need to do. If I work more I get more.

Just to add... a weeks hours is 30 hours.

Gallus I would stay too.

My DH works in public sector. He looked into another job in the private sector. He figured that to compensate for the civil service pension alone would mean he'd need to be paid £10k more to compensate. Then factor in the fact he too can take hours back, already works condensed hours in a 9 day working week which pays full time and has 33 days holiday, any other job was going to need to pay an awful lot more to compensate. He might have found an extra £25k but would have turned it down,more ferrying to stick with the deal he has.

That's a luxury though isn't it....being able to turn down more money because you like your current arrangement - means you can live on the lower wage and enjoy the non-financial aspects of that job. Lots of people would have to go for the higher wage just to life and then put up with the short holidays, expected extra hours etc etc.

3 x 8 he days a week for a take home of £2250

The stress sometimes can make me feel underpaid but otherwise I am grateful

I will be taking pay cut when I move jobs