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What do you earn …

231 replies

Hapideo · 16/05/2023 22:53

Sorry this is a nosey question … but I’d love to know what people earn! As it’s all anonymous I thought I could ask as it really interests me what different jobs earn.

this is partly as I wonder how so many people can afford new cars/holidays/big houses.

I’ll add mine … I earn 68k … but can’t afford a fancy car or holidays every year. I have my own house, but it’s not big. I also didn’t get any family help so bought on my own with no help for a deposit etc.

thanks! And hopefully the question doesn’t offend anyone!

OP posts:
pimplebum · 26/05/2023 15:09

Full time teacher 30k

EleMar · 26/05/2023 15:54

xelous · 26/05/2023 14:58

@EleMar what practice area and what PQE are you if you don't mind me asking?

Tech, 4 years PQE, American law firm

xelous · 26/05/2023 16:04

@EleMar thought it would be a US firm. Thanks. Just considering all my options and that info was helpful ☺️

EleMar · 26/05/2023 16:12

xelous · 26/05/2023 16:04

@EleMar thought it would be a US firm. Thanks. Just considering all my options and that info was helpful ☺️

You are welcome :)

Whenisitsummer · 26/05/2023 16:28

I think with this question , context is everything. On previous posts, I have seen people comment they earn 40- 50k in a job that would honestly earn them 25k here in the north (uk) - at best. Wages are much higher down south but of course so are house prices. 50k earnings in the north will get you a lot more than 100k does down south.

pinksheetss · 26/05/2023 18:26

39k (however paid hourly at £20 an hour - 37.5 hours a week. Potential to do more but not needed)
I'm a Document Controller for an offshore wind farm (work onshore)

On the higher scale of salary I believe

Jellycattoys · 26/05/2023 19:40

Whenisitsummer · 26/05/2023 16:28

I think with this question , context is everything. On previous posts, I have seen people comment they earn 40- 50k in a job that would honestly earn them 25k here in the north (uk) - at best. Wages are much higher down south but of course so are house prices. 50k earnings in the north will get you a lot more than 100k does down south.

I completely agree. In fact, I know a few people in our company had taken a pay cut to move to the north from London, so they can buy bigger houses and childcare etc. is a lot cheaper there.

Haveallthesongsbeenwritten · 26/05/2023 19:42

Candycottoncorn · 16/05/2023 23:50

31k senior marketing manager, feeling v underpaid recently 🤣

Where do you live?? I am up north and my salary is higher than that as a marketing exec.

grosslyunfair · 26/05/2023 20:01

Very true on the London vs no London wages. I live in the Midlands and work my 2 days in a London job , one day at home and one in the office. I couldn't get anything like that locally.

Our pension policy is generous- double matching up to 8%

PickledPurplePickle · 26/05/2023 20:30

Well over 6 figures for 3 days a week

Radiodread · 26/05/2023 23:43

@EleMar Can you explain what 4 years' PQE means to the uninitiated in the world of law firms? Not 4 years' post -academic course, working experience, surely? That would be nuts and makes me really wish I'd been a lawyer if so. What technical sector skills do you need on top of legal to pull in that salary?

Kudos to you.

I'm not sure I'd fancy 5am bedtimes regularly but I'd suffer for them if it was only occasionally OR I was such a high earner that I could contract out literally all grunt work like cooking, shopping, cleaning, household maintenance etc.

I do like my downtime. I'd not choose a super high salary over time with friends and family, but lots of people who earn shitloads seem to manage this as well as working. I feel a bit inadequate somehow.

StayingZenInTheVipersDen · 26/05/2023 23:50

Around £20k p/a, term time only, 8.30-4.30 - school office

LennyKoggins · 26/05/2023 23:52

Paramedic - earned 36k last year, pay will gradually increase. Work full time. 2 teenage children, single parent, no child support from other parent. Never been able to take kids abroad, average car on finance, pretty much live paycheck to paycheck.

Radiodread · 26/05/2023 23:57

@LennyKoggins you're doing bloody well to raise two teens and cope with that job, emotionally and finamcislly. You have my total admiration.

WouldYouLikeYourMuffinButtered · 27/05/2023 00:09

I make replacement lenses for your eyeballs. 48hr week on minimum wage, which just about covers rent etc.

Allmyfavouritepeople · 27/05/2023 00:22

£24k for a weird role in the 3rd sector that is basically admin/sales. I have a lot of autonomy and wfh in Scotland but it's paid at such a junior level. Currently applying for a role that will be a £9k increase for a similar workload.

EleMar · 27/05/2023 09:57

@Radiodread it's 4 years post qualification experience, so two years of training contract and then 4 years as qualified solicitor. I did work for a couple of years before starting my training contract, but I have colleagues that started their training contract straight after uni - so for them it would be 6 years from the end of the LPC (3 years of law school (or 3 years of uni + 1 year of GDL to convert their degree to law) and 6-9 months of post graduate 'Legal Practice Course'). My path was slightly different as I am not British, so I studied law in a EU country where a law degree is 5 years, then the GDL part time whilst working full time as paralegal, then the LPC. So I was on average 2-3 years older than my trainee cohort when I started.

Thankfully 5am is rare, but Monday - Thursday is regularly until 9-10pm and on Fridays I can usually finish by 6-7pm. Weekend work - maybe once or twice a month (but rarely the full weekend) and some work whilst on holiday.

I'd say you learn how to be efficient with your time, as I still have time to do everything I want to do, I exercise daily etc. But I also love being in a dark room on my own so DH is encouraged to do his things regularly! Ah. I love learning and my practice area allows me to learn a lot about a number of interesting and very current topics, and that (and the salary) help with the hours. I also support my parents financially a little bit, and that gives me great pleasure given they had a difficult life.

IDontLikePinaColadas · 27/05/2023 10:19

£70k + bonus, which this year will be another £35k. I’m a party/wedding planner for UHNWI.

Xenia · 27/05/2023 11:37

On lawyers and PQE - as expained it is post qualification experience. I am incredibly so old I am now 37 years PQE! In the first few years you can usually look up the pay as it is online at the bigger firms and they will give pay for first year as a trainee solicitor (after your 3 year LLB and one year SQE course - these days or other degree, law conversion course year and then SQE), then year 2 as a trainee solicitor (probably about £40k a year) and then NQ (newly qualified) may be 80k to £100k. However that is ONLY for those very very rare people with top grades who get those jobs. Vast numbers of solicitors earn much much less. So it is not like comparing a doctor at the same stage where most people get jobs and there is one NHS pay scale. It is completely different albeit similarly a long time to qualify and only those with good A level grades will pass the exams in the first place.

However I don't put anyone off doing law - it is a wonderful career. 2 of my children are solicitors and 2 are trainee solicitors.

As Ele says above there are down sides like working all night and no over time etc.

Candycottoncorn · 27/05/2023 13:51

I live in Scotland

Haveallthesongsbeenwritten · 28/05/2023 21:53

Radiodread · 26/05/2023 23:43

@EleMar Can you explain what 4 years' PQE means to the uninitiated in the world of law firms? Not 4 years' post -academic course, working experience, surely? That would be nuts and makes me really wish I'd been a lawyer if so. What technical sector skills do you need on top of legal to pull in that salary?

Kudos to you.

I'm not sure I'd fancy 5am bedtimes regularly but I'd suffer for them if it was only occasionally OR I was such a high earner that I could contract out literally all grunt work like cooking, shopping, cleaning, household maintenance etc.

I do like my downtime. I'd not choose a super high salary over time with friends and family, but lots of people who earn shitloads seem to manage this as well as working. I feel a bit inadequate somehow.

Pqe is post qualification experience

KittenCatt · 22/09/2023 11:22

I take home £14,400 as an LSA in a private school. The pay is obviously very low, but I’m very happy in my role. I walk to and from work too, so that’s a big help.

i recently bought a house with my partner and can afford my half of the mortgage and my share of the bills. I have some personal spending money and to put some aside for savings leftover.

IVFNewbie · 22/09/2023 16:06

Last year was 240k. This year may be slightly less. I work in B2B tech sales.

pompomdaisy · 22/09/2023 16:08

£60.198 senior lecturer.

Riyadhbrit · 28/09/2023 13:11

Hapideo · 16/05/2023 22:53

Sorry this is a nosey question … but I’d love to know what people earn! As it’s all anonymous I thought I could ask as it really interests me what different jobs earn.

this is partly as I wonder how so many people can afford new cars/holidays/big houses.

I’ll add mine … I earn 68k … but can’t afford a fancy car or holidays every year. I have my own house, but it’s not big. I also didn’t get any family help so bought on my own with no help for a deposit etc.

thanks! And hopefully the question doesn’t offend anyone!

SAR 120k (c. GBP 26k) a month + school fees + annual plane tickets + annual cash bonus, 38 years old, working in financial services.