What do you earn a month as a mum with young children?

[lilacsky89]

Just curious what is normal/average for a mum who works part time and has young children?

So would this be what you would earn if you didn't have dc too?

£1.4k a month after tax, pension, avc, childcare vouchers and charity donations.

30 hrs a week work.

I work 28 hours a week and clear £1,600 after tax, NI, student loan and pension contributions.

3 children aged 5, 3 and 1. Approx 3.5k after deductions (£5k gross). 4 days per week (30 hours). This was my professional job pre kids but have just gone part time.

£1750-2k per month but I'm full time term time

1 DC aged 3, £4.5k after deductions working 4 days a week.

Yes, I'd say so. I work full time (and more) and wouldn't want to do more than that or move back into employment and an office. I do have a husband that does his fair share of home and kid stuff (and often more). We both run businesses so can flex our hours according to need.

For all intents and purposes, I'm a stay at home mum and my DH brings in almost all the income. However, I do have a little freelancing business which brings a bit of extra money to help with the food shop etc. On average it's about £300 a month, and I mainly do it in the evenings when my child is in bed, as and when I am offered projects.

4.5-9k depending how many hours. S/E average is probably 20 and 6.5-7k

£1500 as of this month after tax, NICs and pension. Was less before. 3 longer than normal days per wk.

Band 6 NHS, 30 hours, £1750 after tax, NI pension and car lease on salary sacrifice. Without car I think it’d be about £2100?

A month??!! Woweeeeeee. I want your job!

part time 2 days equating to 15 hours per week and make £1300 after tax, childcare for 2 days will be at least £400 per month for 1 child.

1 day a week term time £750 a month.

There are two women with young children in my team - one is on 80k a year for a 4 day week and the other is on 72k for 3 days.

Around £3k after deductions, working a flexible 3.5 day week, 2 young DC. I kept my professional job after having DC.

€1430 pcm (20 hrs per week).
Husband on below average full time salary but not terrible. Childcare relatively cheap at the moment.

I have a 2 and 4 year old, 4 days, I earn £39k which is 2150 take home after my pension contributions and my student loan.

(Obviously all the other usual deductions too but those are standard).

This a completely meaningless question as it will cover everything from single parents trying to pick up a few hours work around childcare through to women who had established professional careers that they’ve continued after maternity leave.

As you can see from responses that range from a few hundred to tens of thousands of pounds a month.

Also I think these threads attract people who are (understandably!) proud of their earnings and happy to share them so skews to higher incomes.

When PT to leave in time for school pick up - 30 hours pw - take home was £1900 per month.

I work the same full time job I did before DS and had a short maternity leave so having DS didn't really make a difference. I'm a higher earner in a senior role and mostly WFH.

I'm expecting twins this time and the plan is to continue as normal like last time.

I earn a lot, I work part time, I’m highly qualified and the MD. It’s not going to tell you anything except, usually better qualified people tend to earn more. The higher you go the more power you have to ‘possibly’ control your diary.

The best piece of advice I got given was keep your job!

I work 7 days a week for about 12h, sometimes even longer than that. No days off, no sick days and I earn £0 myself but I wouldn't trade my job for anything in the entire world (I'm a homemaker)

Agree 👍