What is your job title and how much do you earn?

[worldshottestmom]

As per title. What do you do and how much do you get paid?

I'll go first; SAHM. £0 pa.

I have a degree in Psychology, but I have never done anything with it as I fell pregnant not long after graduating. But soon, ill have enough time to go back to work full time and I honestly cant wait! I just feel at this point in my life im not sure if I want to pursue a career directly related to my degree.

So, i'm asking you fellow mumsnetters what you do, so I can get a feel of whats out there with accurate salary / hourly rate reflections.

If anyone also has any advice on what other things I could do with my degree, id be very appreciative! I have heard a lot about recruitment / HR roles being fond of Psychology graduates, but job advertisements for those roles always require experience. I also graduated in 2018 which does NOT work well in my favour, but a degree is a degree and im sure it'll help with some roles (or at least I hope so lol).

Thanks!

Deputy chief executive at a council and earn £53k

Executive Assistant £34k plus 10% bonus for 30 hours, no degree.

How small can I ask?

im in a tech startup up on the leadership team earning £70k. I also have a couple of side hustles that bring in about £45k. I’d like to move my main job up to nearer £100k & reduce the others

120k MD

If you are keen to get into a HR role, then look for a HR admin role to start with and work your way up. Some places take on HR apprentices and the 2 places where I have advertised for these roles, the starting salary has been £22k, but jumped to £30k after 18 months.

HR is such a broad department (most people think it’s just about grievance and discipline - that’s actually ER - employee relations).

So, the different strands of HR:

Employee Relations
Internal comms
Talent Management
Recruitment
Early Careers
Well-being and occupational health
Learning and Development
Business Partner
Payroll
Reward and Benefits
Outreach and partnerships
Learning Designer

There are so many opportunities in HR. I have worked my way up to a senior role and earn £82k + 12% bonus. I have never worked in a role where I have been directly involved in discipline or had to know employment law. I have worked in Learning and Development, Talent, Early Careers and Outreach.

At my current organisation, we have a team of 40 in HR and only 5 of them deal with discipline, grievance and policy. I work with L and D Managers, Learning Designers, Early Careers and project co-ordinators. We have had a number of more mature people who have come in as apprentices (they wanted a career change). We have an apprentice who is currently working on the design of assessment centres for apprentices and graduates and she has a psychology degree.

£500,000 a week. Self employed scarecrow. Degree in puppeteering.

HR Manager on £65k plus bonus

Secondary school class teacher. 55k.

Airline pilot, can be fairly variable but about £110k

GP 6 sessions a week (3 days, lunch not paid) 66k

I'm a SEN school & vulnerable adults minibus driver £21k, but I only work term time. I used to be a nurse, but switched careers and love what I do!

Medical Secretary, would be 30k if I was full time.

Not enough really for the shit I have to deal with, but like most boots on the ground workers in the NHS I do my job for the love of (most of) the patients, because it certainly isn’t the pay keeping me there.

Management consultant. Work from home, flex hours and automonous in how and when I do the work - 86k
If i go back to my previous jobs in house then I can earn double but it will mean going back to the office and working harder which does not suit with the kids

2k a month foster carer, is that for 1 child?

Deputy manager in a library, 30 hours, 28K-ish.

10 years qualified educational psychologist - approx 76k. Public sector so good pension etc too. Undergrad psychology initially and had family young then went back to study for Ed psych when DC started school. Have since gained a further MRes too but it has no bearing on my earnings!

Prime minister. About £170k but good prospects for memoir on leaving office. Use of central London housing.
Only really work part-time, less stressful than you might think -- just sack others when things go wrong.

Teacher-now private tutor-around £20 for 9.5 hours per week

*20 k

It is. As are “unpaid trial days,” umbrella companies, and taking coke off the back of toilet seats.

None of which we do. So with respect, I appreciate the industry has it’s flaws, but please don’t assume we all have them.

This is my dream job! I have a BA (Hons) snd teaching qualification, what else would I need to study further? Do you like your job?

Hopping on to suggest the NHS or Civil service graduate schemes. I did one and went straight into a £47k salary aged 24. Now still in the NHS and have worked way up.

Project Management - IT industry. Private sector but lots of public sector clients. £53K a year. 37.5 hrs a week. Home based. Excellent work life balance. Fantastic company and colleagues. No qualifications other than some mediocre A levels (I’m not stupid, I couldn’t be arsed at that age!) currently doing a project management qualification - it’s nothing I don’t know, it’s more to prove I know it.

Can I ask what sector? Also in bids and in a supposedly more senior role but earning less and about to be made redundant.

Worked my way up from the bottom level - was a sales advisor in a shop when I left college before finally getting a junior office role and then moved jobs every 2-5 years. Really hard core networking, constantly applying for jobs etc. Completed quite a few courses in my spare time along the way to top up my skills. Happy to answer any other questions!