How Much Do You Earn? #2

[EverthingGlitters]

Love this thread, so interesting to see all the different jobs and what people earn.

i earn £17900 a year and work 18 hours a week lecturing, my husband earns £110000 a year. I was very lucky not to have to work for nearly 7 years while the kids were little, just recently gone back to work part time

 

[Sloth]

62k - work in operations management

 

[Pleb123]

£65k HR Business Partner

 

[SmokeySapphires]

£65k HR Business Partner

Can I be nosey and ask where in the country? (Or just north/south/east/ big city or small town?) Relative of mine does that and I've always wondered what he earns haha

 

[Pleb123]

Yorkshire, but I think that’s top end as I’ve been in HR a long time. You see some HRBP roles advertised from £40k so it’s a wide range

Can I be nosey and ask where in the country? (Or just north/south/east/ big city or small town?) Relative of mine does that and I've always wondered what he earns haha

 

[ems1982]

Sorry to jump on this thread but does any one here work as a Project Manager? What is the pay like?

I don’t work as one but work in the IT industry and they earn 70k +. One I know is on well over £100k.

 

[ems1982]

That's interesting! Thank you so much. I'm thinking of re-training but the qualification is over £1000 to get. But it sounds like the pay off is worth it!

Is it prince 2 or agile? Both are really useful / agile probably more for IT I would say x

 

[xxheidiandparisxx]

I work an average paid customer service job but work a lot of overtime which is freely available and paid well (usually double time, I beleive time and a half is more common). So I work a lot of extra hours and come out with double what my salary should be.

I’m happy that I choose my own earnings to an extent,in that I have control over how much extra I make when I want or need it for kids Christmas presents, school holidays etc etc. but I do put a lot of extra shifts in. Although I like to make a point of it not

taking over my life in that if I am working but a friend asks me to make plans or similar, I won’t turn that down to work.

But I do also worry I won’t be able to work these hours forever and where that would leave me in the future as it’s obviously not my actual salary and could be stopped at any point. Also if we had another baby I doubt I could commit to the hours.

mainly just wondering if anyone else is in similar position or what are peoples thoughts?

 

[Avenged7Fold]

I gave up a well paid office job in 2018 to become a carer. I earned around £25K in my office job
I started on about £8.50 an hour as a carer. I’ve worked in a care home, as a home carer and a support worker. I’m now a one to one support worker for a young man with very complex needs ((tube fed, deaf, partially sighted and other disabilities) I’m paid £12 an hour now because of the complexity of his care. Boils me blood when we are classed as unskilled workers !

 

[BettyCrockerr]

I gave up a well paid office job in 2018 to become a carer. I earned around £25K in my office job
I started on about £8.50 an hour as a carer. I’ve worked in a care home, as a home carer and a support worker. I’m now a one to one support worker for a young man with very complex needs ((tube fed, deaf, partially sighted and other disabilities) I’m paid £12 an hour now because of the complexity of his care. Boils me blood when we are classed as unskilled workers !

Would you consider training to be a RGN? Better pay and you’d get that recognition? I could never do your job - hats off to you for doing it but like you say, you get paid a pittance and there’s no recognition for the essential services that you provide. It’s terrible.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Would you consider training to be a RGN? Better pay and you’d get that recognition? I could never do your job - hats off to you for doing it but like you say, you get paid a pittance and there’s no recognition for the essential services that you provide. It’s terrible.

I was a nurse for 13 years but gave up when my husband got a new job and our shifts clashed. I never went back. I did look in to return to nursing courses but I’m too old to jump through those hoops now

 

[BettyCrockerr]

I was a nurse for 13 years but gave up when my husband got a job and our shifts clashed. I never went back. I did look in to return to nursing courses but I’m too old to jump through those hoops now

Ah ok! So what made you leave the office job?? (Sorry I’m just curious as to what was appealing about becoming a carer?)

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Ah ok! So what made you leave the office job?? (Sorry I’m just curious as to what was appealing about becoming a carer?)

My Mum passed away in hospital from Alzheimer’s. She was in a cottage hospital with lots of old people with dementia. They kept coming to her side ward door and asking me to take them to the toilet/help them get dressed/get them in to bed. I realised that’s what has been missing in my life and got a job in a care home and handed in my notice. It’s hard but it brings me more joy than keyboard bashing in a stockbrokers

 

[quinzel]

Civil servant 28k

 

[Flowergirl14]

I gave up a well paid office job in 2018 to become a carer. I earned around £25K in my office job
I started on about £8.50 an hour as a carer. I’ve worked in a care home, as a home carer and a support worker. I’m now a one to one support worker for a young man with very complex needs ((tube fed, deaf, partially sighted and other disabilities) I’m paid £12 an hour now because of the complexity of his care. Boils me blood when we are classed as unskilled workers !

Sounds like you are doing an amazing job. Well done! But I know it doesn't help pay the rocketing bills atm...

 

[Caffeine Fiend]

Civil servant. Work 0.59 of a full time equivalent salary is about £13k for that. Woefully underpaid for the job I do but the option for promotion is mostly people management which I dont want to do. Its too flexible with my children but I am getting to a point now where I need to decide what I want to do with the rest of my life.

My partner is on a decent salary and I hate that I earn so little and feel like I contribute nothing. Its stress Im putting on myself though definitely not from them.

Ive been in the CS for such a long time now I feel like I have no transferable skills I also feel too old to study but only in my early 30s. I also dont have a clue what I want to do or what Id be good at. Sucks.

 

[ems1982]

I was looking at doing Prince 2. I'm thinking more the pharmaceutical industry as that's my background currently but I'm not sure really which industry would be a good transition for me

I did prince 2 - it’s really good, there is foundation and practitioner. Maybe check some job ads for the type of project management jobs you would be interested in and see if they ask for prince 2 or agile in the job descriptions. I have been on a lot of tech projects now (I’m a business analyst) and one was prince 2 but most have been agile. I have no experience of pharma so am unsure what they generally use x

 

[FannyAdams29]

I was looking at doing Prince 2. I'm thinking more the pharmaceutical industry as that's my background currently but I'm not sure really which industry would be a good transition for me

I work for a healthcare company and I’m pretty sure we commit Prince 2 qualified project managers in our tenders/contracts. They are paid handsomely as decent ones are hard to come by.

 

[Mrspowell]

Sounds like you are doing an amazing job. Well done! But I know it doesn't help pay the rocketing bills atm...

Try joining a hospital bank to top up. I am a HCA in the nhs working bank and a weekend night shift pays me £230 for one night x

 

[teddy19]

Try joining a hospital bank to top up. I am a HCA in the nhs working bank and a weekend night shift pays me £230 for one night x

How do you go about becoming a HCA? I work for a building society currently but looking for a change and something more flexible! Do you need health and social qualifications or anything?