If you earn 100k plus, what is your occupation?

[CJ2010]

I've posted this here as it is a bit U, but i am curious to know what jobs pay mega bucks.

I've just been looking on a jobs website at admin jobs, most are paying on average 20-25k (in London). With the cost of living as it it, that sort of money will not go far at all.

I've been a SAHM for a while now and have begun looking for work. I'm considering retraining, but only in something that pays well!

So members of the 100k club please spill the beans and let me know your secrets!

I frequently remind people (almost exclusively men) getting their knickers in a twist about deadlines etc that actually, in the grand scheme of things, what we do is not "vital", or even "important" - clue being, if we mess up, nobody dies.

Coming to this a bit late, my Dad is the most successful person I know, he is the only person in the world who can do his job, on just over a mill for 150 days a year contract. He went to college to do an engineering course like all the other lads straight from school and worked his way up slowly. He still works in engineering, but in the field of Nuclear fission.

NB: For anyone from the midlands - Hes a council estate lad from the lost city (Tipton!) if he can do it anyone can, and he has shite luck, it was hard work all the way. He is advises the European Commision, Nasa, ITA, and UKEAA etc. All with his black country accent

I'm an actuary. SardineQueen I know a couple of people who started the actuarial exams aged 40+ and did very well. It is very hard work to get through the exams, but worth it. Some of my friends are earning £1000 a day contracting as demand is so high due to Solvency II.

I work part time and pretty much 9-5 with the odd bad week and can work from home if I need to, so pretty flexible and family friendly.

That's like my Dad, Baby! He does something fairly unique as well and just worked his way up. He is a bit addicted to work though and we didn't see much of him when we were little.

The person I know who earns the most without years of training is a recruitment consultant for execs. It's one Of those either you've got it or you haven't jobs, but it is very stressful with long hours.

Well mid 80's to mid 90's I was a Eurobond Trader but am now a lowly HR manager in the public sector earning less than half the OP's target. Families, career breaks and compromise and all that.

DH is a barrister and earns much more than the op's target. He's 50 (ish) and it took years and years of hard work and reputation building and wifely support to pull it off. We had to put in hard work as a partnership and there were gruelling times for both of us. 16 hour days for long periods for him and detaching from what was going on at home, an early labour on my own because he was in court and "coping" with the aftermath of a baby who didn't make it and keeping the home fires burning in spite of it when he was cutting his career.

No, it doesn't come easy or painlessly. Luck does pay a part but so do a brain the size of a planet, charm, support, courage and sheer hard work for both members of the family.

Well put, Married. So sorry about your baby .

I was expecting to open this thread and be all "oh my god, 100k pfft, I could do that" and actually... Uuuuum.... No I couldn't!
I think I'll continue in my lovely but low paid job and hopefully one day finish the book that will keep me in the style in which I would like to become accustomed.
Big big kudos to all you hard working people.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about what I'm paid, I think I do alright really I work with Nursing Assistants who do an amazing job for a pittance compared to me. Ok, I have ultimate responsibility for the patients but their salary is in no way reflective of the job they do.

And I can see from my brother who probably earns £100k+ the commitment, and impact on his family is huge. I would never want that, essentially I'm not driven enough.

Management isn't for me because I like working with the patients rather than making the shit decisions about budgets and stuff.

Hi Essential - it is a bit out of date but I wanted to give an idea of the proportions, and this was the tidiest table I could find. Bear in mind there hasn't been much earnings growth in the past few years. Broadly speaking, if you're earning over about £120k now you're in the top 1% salary earners. Note that salaries aren't quite the same as income!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8151355.stm

OP you might find this interesting:
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2067258/Best-paid-jobs-2011-Tables-official-figures-UK-salaries.html

Have I mentioned you are all my favourite ?

I see; good answer. I don't think I'd be very good at that part either.

My brother earns in excess of 200K but he's a banker and works basically around the clock so it's like having two full-time jobs really...To do that I think you need not just the will but also some kind of superhuman physiology that allows you to forgo sleep, exercise, human interaction, nourishing food, sunlight etc.

dh and i both earn over £100k and between us earn between £750k and £1m depending on bonuses. I started off on £16k and was working for 10 years before I earned over £100k. We both work in the financial services sector. 15/16 hour days were the norm on the way "up" but now easier to manage my week although the blackberry is never far away. (I did get a call from work while in labour and dh told them very nicely to sod off when they insisted on speaking to me ). With both of us having demanding jobs what we find is that at different times one of us needs to take a backseat in our career, and, now we are parents our dcs are front and centre of everything. There always seems to be an assumption on these threads that anyone earning over £100k must never ever see their children and my response is always that of the 21 meals my kids have a week, they only eat 6 without me. We do have a lot of help at home so that we can have quality time with the kids.

Freelance designer on a day rate that is pretty much industry maximum in the specialism. Last financial year I took 20 days leave and earned pre-desuctions pretty close to 6 figures, but not quite.

The arse about it is that I can only ever earn my day rate X number of days in the year. My business is not scalable until I find a way to clone myself

I'm a SAHM (I've never really worked properly since I got married). My husband is in the Forces. His take-home salary is c £70k but when you add in the non-contributory final-salary pension (which he will qualify for in 2.5 yrs, at the age of 40) and the various allowances, and tax-free bounties earned on ops, it equates to around the £100k mark.

He's educated to post-graduate level (from a "good" university) and it's taken him twelve years to get to the level he's at now, with 17 years left to serve.

However, there are significant risks to the job and it's not the most family-friendly career in the world!

Name anyone , any profession milly that earns over £300k that is morally on the right side..... Hasn't stepped on or mistreated people on the way up or exploited anyone.

My brother, Posie.

I think some Council Chief Executives are now earning close to the £250k mark.

And what does he do?

I know people running their own businesses who make over 100k in salary, dividends etc. And GPs/surgeons.

A few lawyers as well. Sadly despite my Oxbridge degree, years of hard work and being bloody good at my job I don't even earn half that. Law is often about fitting in/being in the right place at the right time, which I never managed to do and am course am not bitter about it at all

My BIL makes that much or more.

When he was fifteen he started working at a shop that made big machines for grinding things. (Shingles, trees, agricultural waste, etc) It turned out he had a real knack for designing the things as well. He's never gone to school for it or worked any where else, he can just tell how things work and invent them in his head.

I have excellent academic qualifications and as a Uni lecturer regualy work 60hrs+ a week, and although no-one dies on my watch, I supervise PhD students as well as teaching under-and post-grads, so do have responsibilites.
I am also a single-parent and have been for over ten years.
My salary through is less than a third of the £100K headline figure here.

I don't begruge anyone their money but if it was just hard work and academic prowess then I'd be on a damn site more money than I am, and maybe able to afford luxuries like a proper holiday.

I am shocked that there are so many people on the site with such high incomes, and are prepared to tell the rest of us what they earn ... I hope you know how very lucky you are (some of us working equally stupid and demanding hours struggle to pay the bills!). I hope that you take the American stance on philanthropy and reguarly support charitable organisations.

*must check with my accountant wtf a de suc tion is

HipHop what do your clients do?

You can run your own business and not be morally bankrupt because you choose exactly how to operate.