What salary are you on?

[alazuli]

My other thread about negotiating job offers got me thinking. I'm so terribly British I don't really know what even my friends are on. But I'm interested to find out what the average on here is and if mine fits in. So here's my salary history.

First job: £16k
Second job: £12k, left on £19k (took a pay cut for a more interesting job)
Third job: Started on £25k, leaving on £35k
New job: £38k

I'm in the media.

What's yours?

What is interesting for me is that I feel better off than I did when earning more than twice what I do now. I had to pay to park at the station, train and tube fares and clothes to look the big corporate part.

These days I ride my bike and wear much more relaxed clothes, have no childcare costs or maybe 4 miles worth of petrol to pay for depending on the weather.

Not just about the £amount IME.

Time of life perhaps too? I used to be very driven, now I like to do a good job but have other things that are much more important.

Teacher- been teaching for 10 years £36,500 approx.
Exam marking team leader- £4K approx each year

I'm at the top of my pay scale now in teaching so unless I take a responsibility that's the max I can expect to earn.

Apprentice electrician - £5.5k
Electronics technician - £12k rising to £17k
IT technical role - £20k rising to £35k
School technician - £11k
I am grateful that my dd's salary means I can work school hours and be around for my dd's in holidays. My current job is by far the most enjoyable, let down only by the poor wage.

Replace dd with dh

Gosh, reading this thread is making me want to leave the NHS even more! I'm top of band 6 so no further pay increases and fed up of the antisocial/anti-family friendly hours I do for £35K. I seem to be at work every time my school aged children are at home.

MSc educated and definitely want to move into something else (more interested in a better work-life balance but a nicer salary would be better)...

I would LOVE to work from home! Any ideas?

38k for 29 hours + bonus. Years ago it was 5k but recently the industry has been hit so last was 1.5k.

Started as a grad twenty years ago on 16.5k and left 14 years ago on 40k

Since then changed industry and went back to £10k for 2 days a week and back up to 40k. Self employed now and should be making about £40k for 2.5 days a week with total flexibility and taking most of the school hold off

£38k working 2 jobs. No work life balance whatsoever but am sole earner with DC so.

2012 - 15K
2013 - 17k
2015 - 21k
2016 - 27k (new company)

I'm a scientist, started in research, now work for a pharma company. Have good benefits but not sure how much progression will be possible. But as I don't have a degree I know how lucky I am to be doing what I'm doing. And at 24 I know I'm doing well compared to others my age.

13k for a 30 hour week working in a government department. It's not much to live on. None of us had a pay rise for 12 years, then just 1% this year.

For a few reasons I've never been able to earn much, I did the wrong degree, I don't know the right people, I don't live in the south - but even when I did I was still paid next-to-nothing.

First job 9-12k
Few jobs in between with increases, can't remember
Last job in the UK 28k (2011)
Now I'm on €30k for 32h week

Accounting (not qualified)

In-house lawyer based in the London office of a US law firm.

6 figures. Senior role but flexible because my manager is in the US and does not care know where I work so long as I deal with it.

Trainee solicitor- about £36k iirc in 2007
Qualified in 2009 on £60k
Now at 7 years PQE after various payrises c. £150k + bonus and benefits.

Magic circle hence big salaries.

I sometimes think I'd like more of a work/life balance but I'm very easily bored so the challenge suits me and it's reasonably flexible - work from home one or two days a week. I'm never truly off duty though as have to keep an eye on blackberry evenings and weekends but doesn't bother me as much as I feel it should.

If I could think of a job I'd enjoy more for less money I'd happily take it. Tbh I think solicitors are over paid when you consider our worth to society compared to say a nurse.

28hr week, financial services, basic £65k, plus bonus. I lack ambition - could earn more, can't be bothered - more to life than work.

I earn around £15'000 p/a for 20 hours per week as a nurse, non NHS.

£16K for 25hr week and a £1K bonus every Xmas..... accounts assistant.

18 - £9k - 2 years in, left & went to Uni
23 - £15k
30 - £40k
33 - £42k pro rata, 3 days a week
39 - changed work environment so salary way down to £10k, started my own company.
47 - now well established & have v flexible hours, £50k

19 - £12.5k (apprenticeship)
20 - £23k

Web developer

Not sure I can see myself doing this forever, but I want kids someday and I can kind of see it working around them.

A friend mentioned someone saying they were aiming for a £60k starting salary (law) program after uni and I just thought that I can't imagine them having a good work life balance.

First salary (20 years ago) £12k
Current salary is 6 figures

Work in financial services

It always surprises me to see the solicitors earning more than the barristers, it's just not how you'd expect it to be.

Question to both the solicitors who qualified on £60k: do you work in London?

£23k for 40 hour week.

My first job was Clerical Officer in the civil service and the annual salary was just under £2k. Current job (in the private sector) is 30 hrs/wk and £18k; when full time it was £22k. This is the highest paid job I have ever had (or indeed will ever have!).

40k plus car 5k and bonus 4K I'm an account manager

Sorry first job in the army
Second job call centre for Unilever, think call centre "can I eat sausages with my chicken tonight"

First job out of uni was a lucky break - earned around £26k pa. Rose more or less steadily from then... until...

15 years later now on £21.5pa pro rata in Lettings (most hated industry on here!). I live in a very expensive city with very low wages and I'm actually lucky to get that really. Plus it's flexible and close to home and as a lone parent I need that.

Not v likely to make much more unless I really crank life up a notch!