If you earn around £50k how many unpaid hours extra do you put it?

[SnarkyBag]

Just trying to decide what’s just part of settling into a new role and getting to grips verses what’s reasonable long term. I’m giving it til the new year to settle but right now I’m finding I’m putting at least an extra day each week to keep on top of things.

there’s definitely a learning curve so I’m seeing some of it as professional development but longer term it’s not sustainable and to be honest I’m not really a work for free kind of person (well not for £50k a year anyway!)

obviously I know some professions such as teachers will be working crazy ridiculous hours (which I think is so wrong and insane and a culture that needs to come to an end by the way) but generally speaking how much are people working for free because of unrealistic work loads?

I do the hours im paid for (35hrs) and that's it. I make sure my work is done so I've learnt over many yrs to work smart and get proficient at using applications like word, excel etc. So I get my work done faster.

47k pro rata....I work my hours flexibly....I never worked a single hour more ....ever

I work fixed hours now and I clock off on the dot of 5pm. But for the previous 30 years I have had a professional job and no, they did not pay to get set hours. All my contracts have specifically said at times you will be expected to work more. And as well as the contract allowing for it, it would have been career suicide to routinely leave the building at 5pm.

To OP, I was earning about £50k in my late 20s, when I was fairly newly professionally qualified and didn’t have staff to manage, I was looking to establish myself professionally, I would have worked about 9 or 10 hours a day.

And me