How Much Do You Earn? #2

[JOHN1967]

I get 25 days annual leave a year. I have to use them as its contractual. Parking isn't their problem, especially as the managers have kept their spaces. I have requested a day off in two months time and as a few others are off I can't have it. Its a special event, not just a day at home. They don't care, just see a list of people all requesting the same day and I'm on the bottom of the list. I now have to miss my family event, or its a disciplinary. They have given me no option to leave.

While I can sympathize with your situation, at least you have a job. You could always take a sickie.

 

[Rxt156]

I know! I think it's strange that I don't want to, because there's not really any good reason for it, other than it just makes me uncomfortable.

I think it's one of those things a lot of us are raised with, so it's hard to shake.

Is it high or low is that the problem

 

[bxiley]

Teacher £36000 no extra responsibilities and I’d like to keep it that way

Can I ask what you teach and for how long?

 

[Lazarus]

Quick q - are civil servants required to be in the office say 2/3 days a week?

The ongoing saga in my life is that I don’t really like wfh and so considering a career change but have no clue what! I worked in a Govt QUANGO for a year after uni and was considering civil service at that time but ended up in tax.

It differs between departments. I’ve just moved to a new department earlier this year. Previous role was home based so I didn’t go to the office for 2 1/2 years. New role requires 40% of the working week to be office based though this is about to change, most likely to be 20%.

 

[NannyOgg]

Thank you!

Hi @NannyOgg!

So, I work for an investment company which has institutional and retail clients. We run hedge funds and equity funds. I write thought leadership pieces, market updates and educational pieces for clients. What my team can't do (because of FCA regs) is write about the funds themselves. We do have a fund reporting team who write about our products (fact sheets etc) but it's a separate part of the business and their content isn't published on social media like investing writing content is. If we mention a fund, it can be deemed an 'incitement to buy' or words to that effect, and it's prohibited under market rules, so we have to keep our content very top level e.g. this is the right time to invest in European stocks because xx, these are the benefits of investing in Chinese equities etc.

Working with fund managers can be challenging, and trying to make sure that I can get the right content (and enough content) out of them isn't always easy. I do write stuff, but they're the experts so they have to play ball too. Being good with difficult people is the most required skill, I would say! A lot of fund managers just want to immerse themselves in their Bloomberg screens and have very little to do with ma

Hi @NannyOgg!

So, I work for an investment company which has institutional and retail clients. We run hedge funds and equity funds. I write thought leadership pieces, market updates and educational pieces for clients. What my team can't do (because of FCA regs) is write about the funds themselves. We do have a fund reporting team who write about our products (fact sheets etc) but it's a separate part of the business and their content isn't published on social media like investing writing content is. If we mention a fund, it can be deemed an 'incitement to buy' or words to that effect, and it's prohibited under market rules, so we have to keep our content very top level e.g. this is the right time to invest in European stocks because xx, these are the benefits of investing in Chinese equities etc.

Working with fund managers can be challenging, and trying to make sure that I can get the right content (and enough content) out of them isn't always easy. I do write stuff, but they're the experts so they have to play ball too. Being good with difficult people is the most required skill, I would say! A lot of fund managers just want to immerse themselves in their Bloomberg screens and have very little to do with marketing!!

Thank you for the explanation. I’ve been in the City for longer than I like to think about, but haven’t worked alongside any teams that have done your type of role. I thought of this function as three areas (1) specific fund reporting as Factsheet + commentary directly from the fund manager, (2) research (e.g. macro or market reports from the in house team) and (3) sales/marketing led by account managers/relationship teams.

But of course, there is also the marketing and content which isn’t account-specific, which i hadn’t clocked! Thanks for clarifying.

 

[UnderThePalmTree]

I earn £24,232pcm for working 24 hours per week. Job is pretty boring but easy so I feel well paid given the flexibility I have to work around childcare. My husband is self employed in an incredibly niche role so I won't say what and earns anything from £400 a week on a bad week up to £2k a week working 3 days a week. We are very fortunate but I am concerned his industry is likely to be effected by the increasing prices, so his earnings might drop considerably come April, at which point he will look to get work elsewhere if it becomes unsustainable.

Is this for real?

 

[Heyholetsgo]

Been given the opportunity to go from Marketing Manager to Operations Manager within our company. Hmmm

Are you going to go for it? Sounds good to me.

 

[quinzel]

Civil servant 28k

 

[Somerset girl]

My Husband is looking for a career change. We can't afford for him to go back to university or not have a full time job and he doesn't want to do a degree. He doesn't have a degree. His experience is mainly in customer service and property database management. What are some careers that might suit him where he doesn't need a degree and could potentially train in the job that has decent pay and career progression. He's currently on around average age.

He doesn't want to do sales. He's very quick minded and good at handling a lot of information at once and can flick between tasks easily.

Maybe an analyst role? He might have to do a trainee type post but the NHS are always looking for decent business intelligence people and it sounds like he might be able to pick it up?

 

[Sabbie]

My lil nephew is a train driver in SE London. I am so curious about his wage. He qualified maybe 4 years ago. He's 29 now.

 

[BettyCrockerr]

Im a civil servant and my salary is £52,000 a year

 

[LifeOfMog]

27 year old on 40k, about to have our first child and unfortunately being a woman in the construction industry means I am about to go down to SMP - absolutely stressed about everything I can't lie, any advice on earning a little extra while on maternity leave?
I will add, we are extremely lucky we both earn a very decent wage for our age group, but we bought our first renovation property a year ago so all savings have been rinsed

 

[Happy35]

Same. I’m on the frontline where it’s very target driven and stressful. I feel like I’ve been in a permanent state of burnout since the pandemic.

Yes I work on the frontline too

 

[zcfthc5]

I have returned 2 years later to update! I still earn around 43k as a Civil Servant but now another 32k from blogging.

Hi, I’m on the same rate in civil service. Do you have any tips for how to approach second jobs? The form is v open to how someone inputs the info, are there any traps to avoid? I don’t know what they are trying to check that I’m not doing

(I’m hoping to do some freelance researching on the side, maybe some tiktok affiliate link stuff, and maybe test out the financial domination thing cos an old [gay] colleague said I’d be good at it lol)

 

[YahBasic]

We got 9.8% this year which brings us in line with inflation.

 

[Onetwothreemore]

Work in social care for a charity, management role, 18.5 hours a week around school hours £1900 every 4 weeks and can work from home if wanted

Probably similar to nhs band 7 responsibilities plus oncall (just answering the phone for any crisis) for a week every 8 weeks.

I believe it to be well paid for the sector and I wouldn’t be able to get a band 7 role in nhs as only educated to degree level.

 

[LifeOfMog]

Look into IT project management within the sector.
It’s good money and usually very flexible working.

See I love IT, and have a friend who works as a technician for start ups and he's smashing it - also works from home full time lucky bugger lol, but I'm worried I'll have to start on an extremely low wage again
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Would some form of management be an option? My brother in law is within the construction world and aside from trips to their sites is predominantly based from home.

If you don't hate your industry then I'd stay in it as the earning potential for you is huge. You'd struggle to not take a step back in wages.

I'll definitely consider it - I don't really see myself as the management type but I will have a look !! Thank you x

 

[JOHN1967]

I don’t know every time it varies but it’s not uncommon if I had made £10K in one month.
I’m a $trippa

Are you taxed on that, or is it cash in hand (or other places)

 

[Homebird44]

Sorry if you feel picked apart, I only said I disagree as I know plenty of people earning in excess of that. Granted, most own their own companies.

Apart from footballers, the only role I could think of earning that would be a banker. Those guys earn huge amounts.

 

[StrawberryBanana90]

£25k in admin (which I had to beg to increase from £21k after two years on the job). Now my role has morphed into an office manager role and I have someone working under me...yet no pay rise office based with no option of remote.