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 was always taught it's not how much you earn but how much you spend. My family earn a tenth of this per annum but have managed to save and pay off mortgage before we were 40. Our outgoings are practically nothing compared to my friend who earns 100k in a successful business. When we compared our very different income and out goings. My family had the highest disposable income. We own everyrhing we have and have never had credit or debt apart from mortgage. Wheras my friend has a substantial amount to pay off. My income includes benefits such as free prescriptions, health checks, council tax reduction, Tax credit/ working tax credit.

Actuary

Only a minority can get over £100k.

There is no secret:
Hard work
Long hours
Always go the extra mile
Learn from others

Would help if you are doing the right thing at the right time.

I've just joined the club having recently been promoted to director level within a boutique consulting firm operating in a specific public sector area.

It's been a long slog back to this level for me having left a big 6 consulting firm about a year after DC2 was born - he turns 7 next week.

My brother is a geologist working for a mining company in Australia... It was his first job out of University and he earns about 100k. He does have to work in the outback, three hours away from the nearest big city by plane and live in a compound with mostly other (bearded/tattooed) men surrounded by wildlife and weather that want to him dead...but as retraining goes, a UG degree in geology and willingness to work in hostile environments seem to be a fast route to 100k

I earned quite a bit writing a series of textbooks that have become popular but that's not a regular salary. In my day to day job I am a lowly paid educational professional. Love it though (and not at all looking back ruefully at own career decisions...).

Not me but DH is a senior Vice President in a large Investment Bank. He has been working in that sector 18 years and took years of 12 hour days and working bank holidays/Saturdays as required to get to his level. Good luck with retraining for that then!

I dont think it counts saying what one's dh earns frankly. Unless the OP is a man married to a mumsnetter such replies are not helpful, just a boast "oh my husband works hard and earns so and so, shame you can't...."

Much more relevant if a working mum earns what OP mentions.

Reading squilby 's reply made me laugh. Nothing has changed at the school gates for centuries if women are still defined by what their husbands earn.

Lol! Hardly how I define myself! I don't earn anything like £100 but the OP wanted to know what professions came with £100k salaries so I answered it based on my knowledge, which is through H. It's not like I started a post saying hey look at me H warms lots of £ aren't I wonderful!

Ypu are less of a funny person and more twat if you think I am defined by my H income!

Looking back through this lots if people have posted about friends/family members and what they do but I need to ridiculed? Fuck right off! Christ chip much?

Anyway as this is on the 'threads I'm on' I had some further thoughts OP, none of which are earth shattering but here goes:

Its good to retrain. Uses your mind and helps with organisational skills, boosts your c/v so go for it. If your first degree wasn't any use do a different one. Or go for a professional qualification.
At the same time get back into the work environment ie time keeping, team working etc by volunteering/interning.
Once you fulfill 50% of the jd and have a recent reference apply for jobs.

Totally but totally ignore the put-downs of stay-at-home-mums like squilby happy to be married to high earning men, and happy to put down women who want to achieve, but who don't earn as much as their husbands because they haven't had the brains or the courage or put in the hours to do so. It is a tough and competitive world out there and there are few short cuts but that doesnt mean you shouldnt do it. It doesnt mean that you should think the only way is to marry a rich man like squilby did.

I have to agree with others,many many women define themselves by how much their DH earns!

And very silly it makes them look as well. I try and avoid those women especially when they look down on working mums!

squilby the problem isn't so much that you posted about your DH but your throwaway 'good luck training for that then', clearly meaning the exact opposite.

I don't think squilby was putting down working mums.

Saying SAHPs with high earning spouses don't earn as much as their husbands because they haven't had the brains or the courage or put in the hours to do so. is

How on earth could a SAHP hope to match their partner's salary if they are looking after DC at home? Staying at home rarely = a large income.

Anyway maybe they have equal or better brains/are more courageous/have put in just as many hours but their earning potential is otherwise limited, perhaps because of maternity leave, perhaps because of the huge cost of childcare, perhaps because of discrimination.

IMO we should stop criticising SAHPs/WOHPs and focus on lobbying for good flexible affordable childcare for everyone so that it is worth SAHPs working if they would like to.

Since I am also working full time in a stressful professional role I am a far cry from a stay at home mum putting down working parents.

'My throw away comment' as you put it was more about how to get the THE level required in banking to earn that money and not specifically my H. I would have thought that was obvious, but I I'll assume funny person you need some extra help with reading comprehension.......

Oh and I have been with my H a long, long time. He was no where near this level when we got married so your well off the Mark with the assumption I have based my whole marriage and family around money.

IT Consultant
I do not have a degree. I have worked my way up. My first job in the UK was as a temp dictaphone typist 17 years ago.

Executive Head teacher of 5 schools (actually officially I am a company director as they are academies)

The OP was asking what professions can earn 100K, and since women can work in any profession, what a woman's husband is earning is relevant as the OP may want to consider retraining to do that profession, so any profession anyone is in is surely relevant not just a woman.

IT for a large investment bank. I'm quite good at it.

Why is squiby getting all the shit?!

I don't earn 100K as I only work about 3 days per week. But pro rata my income works out at just over 100K.

I am a registered practitioner psychologist (educational) and run a small private practice, working in state schools and independent schools and private clients (families). I also do some pro bono work and a bit of free consultancy for various organisations. I could easily expand and take on commissioned work and other associate psychologists as there is lots of work out there and I turn down more than I take up. That's what I'll do in a few years time but at the moment I am happy working part time and enjoy the flexibility (but not the extra admin) that running my own practice brings. It takes a long time to qualify but I enjoy the work and it is very rewarding. I didn't think much about earning potential and flexible working options when I opted for the training at 26, but on reflection I am very lucky to be able to carry on with my career in a rewarding but not too stressful way while raising young children, which other careers do not always allow.

This thread is both amazing and (honestly) a bit depressing. You're all fantastic and I have the utmost respect for you having such great careers!

I've moved into a junior role in PR recently from a badly paid but skilled creative profession on the basis that 1) it would make use of my skills 2) I wouldn't need to retrain and 3) that the earning potential is good.

Anyone here in the meeja/marketing/PR etc and a high earner?

I used to earn in this region, was a chief buyer for a well known retail establishment. Lots of luck and some hard work. I wanted to work less and be at home more so went into teaching.