What do you earn …

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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!

£72k PA 38, Rota Nanny, London/ Sussex pregnant with first child :)

@Jmnjp makes sense so is my BIL I wondered how a doctor could be so minted! I know he does private but only one day a week.

I might have already commented, I can't remember as I'm doo lally from perimenopause, but £23k working 30 hours pw in engineering in the NE. Dh earns about £20k and seems to do about 60 hours pw, in insurance. It's unbelievable seeing all these hundreds of thousands!

Part time minimum wage admin and carer for disabled relative. Only managing because was lucky to buy my house decades ago and have cheap lifestyle (no holidays etc).

Would like very much to be on hundreds of thousands (actually tens of thousands would be lovely) but life has not gone to plan! Am a lotto player though so plans can change 😎

@Jmnjp does your husband work fully probably? Or does he also do some NHS days?

40hrs NHS over 3 days, around 20hrs private over 2 days

@Jmnjp out of interest what type of Orthopeadic. Surgeon?

I think my BIL does one day private

A mix of hip and knee replacements and sports injuries. I think the amount of private work available for surgeons depends on which parts of the country they live. London/south east there is plenty of work.

Ok yes that stuff I think more lucrative. BIL is spinal.

£46.5k - Professional Mental Health worker - full time 37.5hrs

380k

Wow, what do you do?

I do a few things.

They include, chain of massage & spa shops and fine jewellery sales, high end watches etc.

Wow - that’s amazing and so inspiring. Well done to you, you’ve done so well!!😀

£305,000 NHS GP , London

Suddenly feel vastly underpaid for what I do 😅

Someone wrote "Reading this it absolutely blows my mind how much some people earn. How on earth do you get into these jobs?"
In my view other than a few who have set up a businses, m ost of those on high wages including nurses too have spent years gaining professional qualifications most people don't have.

Eg I am a lawyer (work for myself from home). My route was getting best A levels in school, sat hours of exams for scholarship to university, top of year 1 at university, law scholarship, top or joint top in some subject in last year at university including more law prizes (I won't add that I graduated a teetotal virgin which is true but that did ensure I did not have a baby in my teens to mess everything up).

Then I picked London commercial/business law not firms in the NE where I am from and picked those because of higher pay. I also did not take maternity leaves so my work periods were the same as anyone without children (not a choice most women take of course) and have never had a gap year or career break or maternity leave

The doctors on the thread will have similar things - very very hard to get into medicine at 18 so you tend to be doing very well in the sixth form with high exam grades; then they might pick particular work or a certain place - my NHS doctor father (psychiatrist) also did private patients and lots of court and tribunal work too which added to the NHS pay. Doctor sibling similar. All of us siblings moved hundreds of miles from the NE away from any chance of even a night a year of babysitting from family to increase income and build careers.

Just about no one on the thread is in a minimumw age job and hten applies for one at £200k a year. Insted they spend years working towards a job like my son's school friend who is now into his first dentistry job after studying for years.

So those suggesting careers to their children may be point out these things - the problem is most teenagers do not think about life in their 30s and buying houses so you tend to be at the worst stage of your life to make wise financial decisions when you tend to make those decisions.

I do agree a bit Xenia. People who are grossing hundreds of thousands a year are exceptional and make exceptional, and often unpalatable choices. It’s an accurate but partial explanation of where people end up where they do.

However:

• it’s much easier for some to make unpalatable choices than others. Better security, more chance of a return on investment, more social, academic and capital resources to start with.

• you also need to be ok with contracting out grunt work like caring for very young children or elderly people. It’s totally fine if you are, but also it needs to be recognized that many who are not in high-earning, high-drain careers have consciously made that choice because they value hours spent caring.

@Radiodread I like how you explained that

All that glitters is not gold.

£100k of which 25% goes into my pension as I’m working on my exit plan…

@Radiodread agreed. It's all about choice. I choose to have an array of different experiences in my life; love, time with animals, time with my husband. I could earn more but no one ever says on their deathbed- I wish I had worked harder and earned more!

I'm a Foster Carer so get an allowance much of which is spent on my DFS but it's £30k tax free each year plus expenses for driving him around which i do a lot. I also get a passive income from my Teachers Pension I took early of £8.5k. I also have an annuity of £6.5k per annum and about £30k taxable income from btl houses in my own name and have others in my limited company name. DH is on £60k from work plus he also has a passive income from btl houses of about £12k per year. All his income is taxable.

Are you freelance @Xenia ? Im retired but have toyed with that idea for a while. Ive probably left it too late now and I am lazy and like my holidays 🤣.... but its good to hear someone doing well at freelance if you are 👏

There is a brand new category in my profession called "freelance solicitor". I am not in that category and am a firm and have been since the 90s. However it is pretty much the same, have worked from home since then too.

Radio, I agree that people make choices for all kinds of reasons eg some children from some backgrounds might thing to get to be a teacher on up to £40k is massively successful because they are limited in what they see around them and no one but drug dealers, their doctor and teachers at school make much money of those they know. I don't think it because of security that I took no maternity leaves - it was absence of legal rights - the lack of the rights meant I never took time off which in a sense meant my career went well!