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!

You can always try The Apprentice.

Hi OP. I don't earn that. The person I know that does earns about £150k, 1 GCSE (btw) and has worked for the same (bastard) company for 15 years. He sells event stuff.

I have a friend who owns a graphic design co, and another who owns a nursing home chain (lots to be made by scrimping on the care of the elderly)

As far as I can see to earn huge amounts, aside from medics, you have to be morally bankrupt, especially to be a banker.

Solicitor - not in London. Have plateaued since having children 4 years ago. Is not a job with much work life balance in my experience. am just about on 100k now working full time which often means post 8pm sometimes post midnight and occasional weekends.

Am now 34 and
12 years qualified. I work for a big firm where excellent academics and experience are required and your time is expected. I didn't get paid this for a long time though - my first law job out of uni paid
12k - in 1999. I was on 40k by 2004 and pretty near to my current salary since 2008.

Hth

Hulababy - yes a headteacher will earn approx 100k in the state system, senior teachers are not far off. Private and international schools in excess of this + other benefits eg flat, flights to country of residence, free tuition for kids etc. Hth

Have to say that I know no teachers earning anywhere near £100k, not even senior teachers. The pay grade for the vast majority is much much lower.

Independent schools vary I agree, although many are only slightly above the main payscale when I looked.

A buddy of mine is head of a big dept at the BBC and is on about that. A rival channel offered £50k more but she wouldn't budge! Must be nice.

Sales Account Directors at my old company were on about £100k including a big bonus which they always got. It's a big brands company a bit like P&G. They were not particularly well educated just good at building relationships with customers and doing copious amounts of corporate butt licking when appropriate.

when I was a lawyer in the City, I earned that. I don't anymore as I'm not in the city and work for a charity. Oh well. it wasn't worth it imo as I never saw the children and was at clients' beck and call and the partners were horrible too. and I had to wear sheer tights and court shoes.

JobServe

Over 300 contract jobs posted in the last 24 hours that pay above £100K

Sorry, jobs posted in London

I can relate to that BeattieBow

I know a few, all who work in financial services (but then, most of the people I know work in financial services), all with 10+ years experience in very demanding roles (e.g. one guy who earns way above £100k but is in a different country every week meeting clients). Another is now CEO, originally trained as lawyer, graduated with 1st from Oxbridge and then worked as lawyer, then moved into finance.

So, lots of years of hard graft, seniority and some brilliance. Easy.

Hi I work in Retail as a Head of Buying and Merchandising and I earn over £100k, add to that a pension, a free Audi and free petrol (including non work travel) £300 a month of free clothes, 55% discount on other purchases etc.

I've been doing this for 16 years, started on £11k and worked my arse off. On average I do a 12 hour day. I leave the office to put ds to bed and then work for a few hours in the evening, answering mail etc. I can count on my hand the number of lunch hours I have taken in the last year. i live in Switzerland - if you have an IT or Banking specialism consider moving here for the tax benefits 8% in some Kantons.

At present my DH is SAHD, although last year he also worked as a Head of IT on slightly less salary than me. It's easier whilst he is home as I travel extensively across Europe and the US whilst we an a new retail system.

It's not as simple as retraining unfortunately, it only happens overnight for few. Most people have slogged to get here.

As far as I can see to earn huge amounts, aside from medics, you have to be morally bankrupt

really posie, you need to get out more.

remember that the newspapers play fast and loose with "average" salaries
the average (mean) salary is around £26,000 - but that is skewed by those earning megabucks as the lowest salary is zero and the highest is million
the half population (median) salary is around £18,000 - ie half the workforce earn less than £18,000
and only 1% of taxpayers earn enough to pay 50% tax

Oh and it's not much fun hanging around airports for flights to hideous meetings, however an ipad and mumsnet are a godsend.

DH is a software engineer for a well-known IT company. It's not a typical salary though for software engineers - I know many others who are on less than half that. DH is frighteningly intelligent, an Ivy League postgrad and most of his colleagues on similar salaries are either from Oxbridge or other top international universities.

It's quite a laid-back occupation though compared to jobs paying similar salaries - he can choose his working hours, gets time off when he wants (doesn't have to work around tight deadlines) and gets an amazing range of perks.

Other people I know in that salary range were lawyers or bankers. I think those jobs come with much more pressure and killer hours though.

My DH basic salary is exactly 100k and his bonus last year was 32k and he is an I.T manager in an investment bank in the city. Excellent money but boy does he earn it . 60 plus hours a week in the office and blackberry going of 24/7. Blood pressure through the roof and drinks like a fish to get through the week.

Name changed.

City solicitor - but I'm on maternity leave and salary will sink now....if I go back. need p/t rather than 80 hour weeks, but liable to be refused

DH is a company doctor in the City and earns £350k + bonus - he goes into companies at the request of its bank or (rarely) management, and turns around failing businesses. He's busy at the moment. It's challenging, complex work with horrendous hours and constant overseas travel at the drop of a hat. He loves it though and he often saves jobs [proud emoticon]

To retrain as a City lawyer will take about 6yrs plus min of 3 more to get to £100k, assuming relevant A levels etc. That's compressed law degree or conversion, plus LPC equivalent, plus 2 years training contract plus 3 years of being beasted if you can land a top City job.

Advertising Sales. Easy for some, if you've got the edge and know your game.

Even with a £35k basic. Commission is where the money can be made.

Not me I hasten to ad. I farking HATE sales with a passion.

TheReal Examples of non-morally bankrupt?

Head Teacher salaries are between 43k and 105k, but you have to be a head in a huge school to get the latter kind of money. Most are somewhere in the middle.

I don't earn over 100k, but people I know who do...

• Some kind of Grand High Poo-Bah in the Home Office
• Finance director
• HR Director
• Marketing Director
• Uber Technology Geek of the Higest Order
• Owner of Company

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I am a director within finance in a blue chip company and earn over £100k

I have a degree and two post grad qualifications and a fairly stressful job (not 9 to 5)

It was also impossible to work part time when I came back to work

Just to weigh in on teaching, not all private schools pay more than state. I earn less to teach and work in boarding 24/7 in a private boarding school than I would if I taught in a day state school. I love it but yes, I'm slightly bitter! (And no, it's nowhere near 100k and never, ever will be!)

TalkinPeace2

Are those figures current?

OP

I notice you mention 'retraining'. Take care as some occupations require a very long education and training commitment.