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!

What areas of the country are the high earners in? North? South? East? West? I can imagine location has a bearing on opportunities?

Well exactly sardine. I could go down my DC's class lists and say what the other parents all do.

I know someone just got a job earning around this amount.

He is an IT consultant but it's taken 10years of experience and hours of study and exams to reach this. He earnt about 20k to start.

I should imagine London and the South East will have ahigher proportion of high earners...but it doesn't go as far of course.

I'm bullshitting myself then...

And i can basically guarantee that my line manager, director and her manager earn more than me....so I am bullshitting about them too!

Hysterical.

Moot point for me though as I live in Switzerland. So we are bottom earners here!

Jobs such as hospital porter are socially vital, literally involve life and death, but get very low wage. Futures trader which can annihilate a national economy - mega bucks.
I do think thatdoctors who practice pointless 'cosmetic' surgery like breast enlargement, designer vaginas etc which play on and perpetuate women's insecurity when their skills could be so much better used are lacking ethical judgement
That's the general kind of area I mean

Actually I'll do the class list for the OP.

Architect, lawyer, banker, lawyer, stock broker, lawyer, accountant, something in medical sales, lawyer, interior designer, lawyer, accountant, banker, lawyer, venture capitalist, property developer, banker, cosmetic dentist, owns some sort of insurance comapany, shrink...these are the ones I know anyway.

talkinpeace2 - I can't be bothered to do the maths from the weekly income chart (with not enough labels) in that report, but someone pasted numbers higher up the thread which suggest there are ~400,000 people in the UK who earn £100k or more, which sounds about right to me.

I don't think the friends and acquaintances of a handful on MNers add up to that sort of number.

DH is a GP.
So five years medical school followed by years of hospital jobs working 100 plus hours,followed by year of GP registrarship.
He is equity partner.

So in summary

Morally bankrupt:

• futures traders
• cosmetic surgeons who do breast enhancements

There are many other roles that command salaries of £100k+ ...

I know someone who is a senior manager in a cigarette company...is that morally repugnant?

What about DH's friend who owns an online gambling site?

Yes wordfactory and they all operate in a moral vacuum it seems...

not in uk, so salary in euro (and taxed to high heaven!), but I am university professor and I earn 100k (just about) before tax. I am unusual in that I was in permanent full-time employment before I was 30 and I got promoted early and fast; most of my peers were nearly 40 before they got a salaried job. So you are talking about 15+ years of education/training and maybe 25 years earning - but university salaries in the UK are lower

Solicitor in the city.

Magic Circle solicitors earn £100K at about 6 years qualified, I think.

No secrets - excellent academics; strong CV with interests, positions of responsibility, good work experience etc; willingness to work hard and long hours; aptitude for a certain area of the law.

Reality TV celebrity :(

I didn't go into the profession for the money - far from it!

I have absolutely no problem with people being super rich if they do good things with their spare cash
bling tat is not included in my criteria
I also believe in risk and reward : and sadly at the top of the heap there have been too many rewards for failure in the past few years
that and the level of inequality has risen steadily over the last 30 years (on the IFS report I linked to, see the Gini coefficient chart)

and yes, I accept that Mumsnet is deeply unrepresentative of the population as a whole so chances are a good proportion of the wealthy are known to posters

I absolutely disagree with the poster who was talking about being 'morally bankrupt'.

I have worked incredibly hard to get where I am right now, and yes, I do employ people who are on a much lower wage than me, but I can't afford to pay them all the same as me.

It might sound selfish to an outsider, but I have worked essentially all of my working life to build up my company, by myself, so I feel I have a right to reap whatever benefits I wish from that.

As a company, we are highly involved in numerous charities, holding events, sponsoring various people, etc. I make sure that my employees are happy, and that the workplace is a nice one for everyone.

So, sorry, but I am certainly not morally bankrupt.

Why futures traders and not spot??

Architect?

£100,000pa?

Where is the " rolling hysterically on the floor in disbelief " smiley when you really need it?

I earn nothing like half that sum and I don't know of any who do - other than a very few, well-known 'superstars'.

I would also say that there are almost no 100k jobs that don't involve very long hours, a great deal of responsibility, a high degree of complexity, and a very long period of training/education and/or experience. This isn't to comment on the moral value of one thing over another, simply to say something about how the market values particular skills.

Successful author, also make music (electro) but on the downside get about 3hours sleep a night, drink more coffee than is safe, and have put everything on the line and then lost it (a couple of times) And can't remember what my husband looks like. wordfactory my best mate works for a cig company i call her the "death dealer!"

I would imagine most medical consultants and GP partners earn this and more,tbh,and I know a few!!

I was magic circle HappyAsEyeAm and I earned just over £100k at 3 years' qualified as I got close to the maximum bonus. Anyone 6 years' PQE in a magic would be earning well over £100k I would think - the bonus levels increase massively after 4 years' PQE (to 'unlimited' at my former firm).