What jobs do people have that pay £200k+?

[Diamondpearl123]

I am thinking about making a career change to earn more (aiming for £200k +) but would like to understand what types of roles I should aim for and whether they are realistic for me. Grateful to understand people’s experiences and hopefully start a good discussion. Some questions below. Thank you

• What is your job?
• What is your salary?
• How many years into your career are you?
• What are the key qualifications/experience for the role?
• What hours do you work?

You need to be realistic, very few jobs offer that kind of money and retraining isn't doable these days, people don't want freshly trained people, they should want very high levels of experience for that kind of money, you would maybe be talking CEO of a huge nationwide organisation to get that kind of salary!

I'd say anyone earning £200k a year has probably been working hard in that field since they became an adult or even earlier. You're talking about a CEO of a multinational corporation or the Director of a Civil Service Department. However, fwiw:

• What is your job? I'm a Project Support Officer
• What is your salary? £46k
• How many years into your career are you? New to this role but in my organisation for 6 years.
• What are the key qualifications/experience for the role? Experience of managing large projects, working with internal and external stakeholders, communicating in writing with a wide range of people. I haven't met anyone doing this role without at least a degree level qualification although the subjects vary.
• What hours do you work? 37 hours a week flexibly. Core hours 10-3.

I'm sorry to be an arse, but I'm on £55k and teaching is just fine, and I might do an hour or so after school on average most days. Some days more, some days I decompress for about 20 mins in my chair and then leave. But I've been at the same school for over a decade, teaching in primary in the same three year groups and we've done a lot of work on our curriculum so it's actually quite relaxing now. And we've finally adopted a sensible marking policy. Also use Chat GTP for everything- and Chalkie is ace. Also Outer London UPS which helps. At no point in your career should you be working 60/70 hours. The kids don't appreciate it and the your colleages probably think it's odd. If you've never used AI, look at it after half term. It's ace.
I'd rather be doing this job with all the holiday, making a genuine postive contribution to society than earning £200k in some of the high stress, short holiday, zero positive contribution to society jobs mentioned in this post. But each to their own of couse.

Big tech sales. Always on, available 24/7 because if you’re off, your competition takes the lead. Basic £150k with OTE of £300k which you should earn, else your job is in jeopardy as you obviously haven’t made your number.

It's a hellish job while you get experience. Property developer - yes. None of the back breaking work and potential for much better money for far less effort. Pay someone else to do the hard physical work and reap the rewards.

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Banking - frontline roles - Investment Banking, Sakes&Trading and virtually all MDs

Lawyers

Consulting senior directors or partners , firm dependant

Technology sales teams - Directors and higher

You could also look at senior tech roles like Architects and alike where 200k all-in packages can be found.

I'm a GP, I don't earn that much as I'm salaried, but the partners I work for earn do. They have a dispensary and a pharmacy and are quite entrepreneurial.

The other people I know earning that much all have their own businesses. At least two of those were software engineers who spotted a niche, and built it into businesses. And they both made millions very quickly.

I'm the AI person taking the jobs I'm afraid but it does pay well.

In my experience, once you get to a certain level LTIPS/RSU’s or profit share kick in and £200k is just the start. I think people are often naive about how much some people get as their full comp. No arguing over 2 or 3% pay rise, just how many shares they get given. 200k salary and 400k shares is pretty common. I know plenty earning 7 figures.

Asking questions helps you gain knowledge

Bankers wouldn’t get out of bed for 200k. There were over 1000 million pound bankers in London 15 years ago.

Yeah, but I earn nowhere near that much and the reason i have to work so many hours is because my subject is Englidh. It's the worst!

I don't think so.
I'm one of those in this salary bracket and was happy to offer my perspective, but also to learn from other posters. I don't know much about careers in other sectors and this thread has been educative. I don't see why it couldn't be a useful guide to those who want to give direction to their ambition.

just to think outside the box here.. there are lots of live streamers/tiktokers earning above 200k for their “jobs”. Chelsey Harwood from Liverpool gets anywhere from £1,000-£3,000 per live stream (she streams daily). DG Decor makes probably around the same. There is more than one way to skin a cat is my point. You don’t have to have a huge list of qualifications or years in a business to create something profitable. One tiktoker made £53,000 on one live stream battle a couple of weeks ago!

A CEO of a huge nationwide organisation - would not get out of bed for £200k.

Run a small profitable company well and £200k is very achievable with the right shareholders

With respect, we've got 17 pages (and counting) of people in this salary bracket describing their careers, and very few are CEOs of huge national companies.

If you are career minded then surely you should be aiming to progress in a field you either have experience in or actually enjoy.

Setting an arbituary £200k a year target seems like a recipe burnout and unhappiness.

If you do not have a burning desire to work in X or Y field then aiming to become less materialistic sounds a lot more sensible.

Pals from uni are partners at Magic circle law firms and earn over £1mill per year at age 40ish. But the competition is about as stiff as it gets and they don’t have much of a life!

Many people in banking…

Me too. Is it worth it?

This does make me wonder how truthful some of these posts are!! My dh (Director level of a global company) is on about 200k all in but also thankfully has a great lifestyle (no long hours, flexible - he isn’t money motivated so has never pushed for big promotions etc) and I gave up work when we had kids. I consider us to be very privileged, grateful and lucky (nice holidays, never worry about the cost of eating out, theatre etc, not a huge house but big enough and the mortgage paid off), we have a great life and live in a very affluent area. But here are so many saying they earn £300k+ or even £900k!! Is that likely considering the relatively small audience for mumsnet forums?! How do they have the time to be on here?! 😂 I can imagine it’s making some on here feel pretty crap when actually they are doing really well. Hats off to anyone working their arses off but make sure you look after yourselves!

so many people saying you have to be a CEO of a multi national organisation to earn this! Absolutely not true! They earn far far more than this - please just google before you spout crap on this thread!

Wow. This post says a lot.