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!

Senior Project Manager £54k plus bonus

East midland

I have been in the business for about 30 years. I am fucking good at what I do. I retired last May and was head hunted in November so am re-joining the workers next week.

Not always London. My role is remote and is similar (IT (digital transformation) Change Lead £750pd) but can be anything upwards of £550 day rate depending on the sector (government, finance, tech, charity).

I applied for the admin assistant role which I got and gradually took more ‘senior’ responsibilities on and asked for a pay rise each time, which I got.

I personally don’t resource, however… we don’t.

We look at their desired job role, or if their personal statement is geared towards education or basically anything else, etc etc, and leave them alone if it’s not education.

You also had no way of knowing that we did do that when you responded and told me to stop.

I’m an HR Manager in Scotland. A teensy bit over £71k. I have no degree, worked my way up from the lower ground! But I also feel I’d be on more if I didn’t have my three children.

Admin for a family member 35k -Very PT

Civil Servant. £62k

I need to know your secret of how you got out of the motor trade? I have been in the black hole for about 17 years (3 different brands) and I need out desperately!

Director of a municipal government office. $125K US dollars

Legal auditor. FTE is £45k but I work 3 days a week.

The earning potential can be great, commission schemes are generally generous and the better you do the more you earn.

It depends on where you work, in all honesty. I started my career is a large national business, and the Regional Manager used to take cocaine in the toilets at staff events. Never saw anything in the office but the actual parties etc were full of it. My branch manager had an affair with a trainee consultant, etc.

I work for a smaller business now, very close knit and not that kind of place whatsoever.

You don’t need to come from an education background, though it has helped me. We employer recruiters from predominantly sales and customer service backgrounds, or graduates, and generally speaking employ those new to the industry and train them up.

I find it works better for us than employing people with experience, but bad habits developed in the Wolf of Wall Street esque agencies.

Really? I'm admin in a primary school. Last year I earned £21,200 and I think if I left they'd probably even chance their arm advertising it at a grade lower as that's what all schools seems to be doing in my area. The unions don't kick back and people are desperate for work so it just carries on. Eventually we'll be paying THEM to work. 😆 I'm laughing but it's disgusting really. The job is so much more involved than just answering phones and sending a few letters.

I've got A-levels and a degree (which is now useless as tech has altered a lot of stuff). I had a more senior role in my previous school but that was secondary and I wanted to switch to primary, and our financial circumstances meant that I could afford to take a paycut to work in a "nice cuddly little job" - HA! 😆

OP, I know of a few teachers with a psychology degree. Primary. They did their PGCE, did a few years of teaching, took on extra roles like SENDCO or senior leadership and earn ok money. The workload is HEAVY for the money though. Some are looking to retrain as speech and language therapists or educational psychologists.

I'm curious, how come you have never heard of a PGCE? That is REALLY unusual. And most people would just have googled.

What type of company was it? Was it easy to get the junior role?

£550 pd is low. I work in insurance and banking. Major projects - new project the business is investing circa £10m, so my rate is pretty average,

Qualified electrician who now works for the railway in electrical control. 63k basic. Around 100k with nights and OT

Commercial Partnerships - £45k plus bonus. Excellent benefits = wfh, flexible hours, private healthcare (shortly having a hysterectomy privately), business trips, great pension contributions. Small tech company (not London).

👋👋 I’m an illustrator, similar salary, also in Yorkshire!

My DH will take his annual leave during school holidays as much as possible, but mostly my lovely MIL will be carrying us through it, which I don't take for granted. My youngest starts Reception in September which makes it feel more manageable, but it will be a shock for all of us I imagine! 😬

Life administrator, flexible hours, use of 4 high power cars and six figure income and no degree.

I'd done 17 years when I left! It was summer holidays, I'd managed to get about 4 days off all summer with the kids and I thought 'I don't want to do this any more' I found a uni course, applied and somehow got onto it to start 3 weeks later. Downside was I ended up working every weekend as a dealership receptionist while I was at uni but it was a breeze compared to service.

When I finished uni I saw a grad scheme advertised for a procurement job and it's honestly a different life, still stressful but I can do things like go to the doctors, finish early for parents evening and I get 2 weeks holiday in the summer and at Christmas, and I get paid better.

Other people I know who have left the trade have become mortgage advisors, childminders, account managers. I don't know anyone who regrets leaving.

We so need that laughter emoji reinstated 🤣

As a local journalist I was earning c.£20k full time 15 years ago.
Now a schools governance clerk c. £12k, part time, term time only, WFH, which has worked well around my dd. I also worked as a school HR admin asst for a short time.
Now dd’s getting a bit older I want something more (hours and money) and have applied for loads of comms / PR / legal assistant jobs but no bites so far.
I started a Visual and Live Arts degree after college but deferred after first year and never went back.

Railway has loads of very well paid posts especially E&P.

Yes it does we have alot of ex e and p and overheads. I was a signaller when I joined the railway. Also well paid most of the higher grades are on 60-100k.a year