How much do you earn?

[Beatrix]

Yes! It’s the younger devs who are the worst I’ve found. They don’t realise that the salaries plateau when you get higher up the chain! However I did have one guy (mid 30s) tell me that £75,000 per year was not anywhere near an appropriate living wage in the North of England. Fully serious as well. I had to take a minute but ended up making a comment to him about how he should think about going to visit a foodbank to see people who really struggle. He reported me to my manager but she agreed

What a naive person, I hope they never go into management. You never know what costs people have on the other side but £75k is huge.

This is why I'm pro having open salaries or at least banding that's visible (like in the public sector), so that everyone is are aware of the range of salaries of the people they work with. Maybe people would give the office admin a bit more respect if they knew they earned a 1/4 of what they earn. I work in finance so I see the full payroll and it really puts things in perspective, and I think it's why this thread is so popular!

 

[bunnyboo]

I got a raise since the last time I posted here! I still work in tech, on the product design side of things.

I now get €42,000 (plus a yearly bonus in December). I wanted more in my salary negotiation but the "budget just isn't there", so I used that as leverage to renegotiate my contract in terms of working from home. I used to have to get 2 buses (one way) to commute into the office, and it was always stressful as fuck (not to mention expensive!). I now got sign off that if we do return to the office, I can remain at home for a minimum of 4 out of 5 days.

 

[AlanBanan]

Aesthetician and professional makeup artist (not one of those orange face and overdrawn eyebrows self taught girls, I took multiple courses in makeup artistry, skincare and cosmetics) I earn around 40-50 thousand a year depending how busy I am. But ever since the lip filler business has been booming I sometimes make a bit more.

edit: I don’t do lip filling as I don’t have a nursing degree (Anyone can do it technically but we don’t want any medical liabilities) , it’s just that my job gets more customers due to offering lip fillers.

Also, why in the world are nurses only earning 1800 a month that’s disgraceful. They should be earning much more than that considering the amount of training and hours they put into their jobs. Disgusting.

 

[Hobbitsies]

I thought uni was free in Scotland?

It is sort of. So my 1,800 yearly tuition was free so the actual education was free but we get SAAS loans to cover living costs. They are paid back at a low rate out of your pay check and after a few decades, they get written off if you haven’t paid them. So they are more like another tax!

 

[judsmum]

Haha, I think I'd be really good on a phone sex line as I have a filthy mind!!

So do I but i get the giggles and that’d be me done for the night!

 

[Largeandincharge]

Bloody hell!
deffo in the wrong job haha I take home £980, for 35 hours per week haha

 

[Peggy5]

This thread is such an interesting read!! I really wish we were all more open about money and it wasn’t such a taboo subject.

I’m currently a stay at home mum, so I get paid fuck all my partner earns £50k+ and we have a nice comfortable lifestyle, but will be much better once I return to work, we don’t have as much opportunity to put money into savings like we used to.

 

[Loiterer]

It's disgraceful that our TDs make €95k a year, and those with such important jobs to society (i.e. childcare workers, nurses etc) are paid pittance. It honestly makes my blood boil.

Totally agree - like the preschool practitioner Above and other nursery staff etc - we trust these people with our pride and joy probably for the first time of them being left without us, they teach them so much and are so important to us all - but they earn so little it’s just not fair - makes you think how do they retain good staff hopefully it’s just because they love their jobs.
Thankyou to all you do - I would have doubted before I had to leave my preschooler and now I fully appreciate x

 

[Lynseyp]

What do you sell ? Was thinking of giving this a go at one point but wouldn't know where to start

I sell on ebay, basically anything- I've mainly sold shoes, clothes, ornaments even my car was sold on ebay (luckily it was a cash buyer and it didnt go through paypal so avoided extra charges).
Declutter as much as you can, my kids sold their clothes which no longer fitted them and anything they sold they kept and put money towards new clothes. My daughter did this and has made £100, shes 13 years old so she was really pleased with the extra cash.
Slight downside with Ebay is you do get alot of time wasters and i find ebay does side with the buyers and not the sellers - had a customer who bought a lovely brand new dress off me, she had defaced it and accused me (after 12 days of receiving my parcel) of ruining the item. She clearly wanted it for an event and didnt want to keep it so she had a new outfit for free - ebay sided with her i was fuming.

 

[Jane100]

I’m so shocked I had no idea so many people would be earning 50k+ a year! That sounds amazing money! I always thought my 24k salary as a nurse was fairly decent

 

[auntylil]

Absolutely loving this thread, thanks to the original poster who started it! It's SO interesting seeing what people earn!
Self employed here - 62, North Yorkshire
I do freelance work for an agency who specialise in employing people who are housebound for whatever reason, especially disabled (although I'm neither housebound or disabled). That earns me between £600-£1000 per month.
Matched betting - despite the negative comments on here, it IS profitable and you CAN do it free. If you join something like Profit Accumulator obviously there is a monthly fee (it's around £20/month) but you're paying for their tools and expertise! But as I said you can do it free using online tools. Been doing this since 2014. What I earn depends on how many hours I put into it but anywhere from £150 upwards a month and that's after doing it for several years, I used to make around £400/month on a regular basis.
Had months where I've hit on very lucky with some of the casino offers (you don't - or shouldn't - do these until you are VERY experienced with matched betting itself - MB is risk free apart from when you make a mistake as you are NOT gambling). One month I took out £1400 from one casino offer - those months don't happen very often for me lol (but I know people who are very lucky in that respect). Oh and ALL matched betting income is tax free because tax has already been paid up front on gambling sites, bingo, casinos etc etc.
I also do Ebay selling but not as much as I used to, due to lack of time. You can do re-selling and earn good money from it, without any capital investment.
I do other things online, mostly affiliate marketing, and this is something I'm looking to grow over the coming year. You don't have to be a con artist or "influencer" (shit term if you ask me as they influence me to do jack shit or the exact opposite of what they do! lol) - you can place ads anywhere you like and have people buying from those. (If you're interested, take a look at Clickbank and their tutorials as a starting point!) Last month's earnings from Amazon affiliate programme and other ones I'm a member of amounted to just under £400. That's why I want to ramp it up - if you can get it to work successfully it's the easiest earnings ever if you ask me!
So yeah, not bad money considering I stay at home, no travel expenses, no office politics shit to deal with, no nasty boss, I do what I want when I want! I LOVE my job and I never used to be able to say that.xx

 

[Scvee13]

I'm 33 live in Scotland and top band 6 nurse in mental health, I work 32 hours a week and take home just over £1800 a month. Loved reading about the SAHM and how supportive their partners are, my husband earns £450 a day and I wouldn't see a penny of that. He's all for earning my own money, causes many many arguments in the household.

Wow how do you live with someone like that?

 

[Flossy2019]

Not enough

 

[CityFarmer]

Support worker for autistic adults. 14k a year, 35 hours weekly and after pension I take home £1100. I have 3 children and also receive benefits, so I get £800 a month but only because one child has autism.
Doesn’t include child benefit. That is £48 per week.

Why does nobody ever want to say how much they earn, even on anonymous forums
So let’s do it... what’s your job, how much do you earn annually?

I’ll start.
I work in adult entertainment, on webcams. I haven’t been doing it a full year but I earn on average £2,000 a month

Can you be old and fat to do your job? Asking for me

 

[Emlo]

26 year old ED junior doctor in South East: work part-time ~36 hrs a week shift work, earn around £1800 a month post tax/student loan (£68K in student loans last time I checked )

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

I’m mid 30s and I work for a small charity near London, I’m a manager with a team of 8 and I earn £28700. My sector isn’t exactly known for paying well (charity, after all), but I am woefully underpaid. I knew I was taking a little bit of a pay cut when I started (I had managed to claw my way to £30k in a previous role after taking out a grievance pointing out that, based on job descriptions and what my job was actually like, I should have been in the oau grade above mine earning £38k, so they raised my salary £2k, despite the fact that my budgets delivered an annual surplus of several hundred thousand pounds a year. I left very swiftly and was glad to leave a big corporate organisation behind me). I like my work but I’m a bit done with the place I’m working at for various reasons- no progression, no strategic thinking, slightly hap-hazard ways of working (sometimes it’s like being at work with every single Hugh Grant character from all his films, well meaning but foppish and awkward), and I’ve been looking to relocate to cheaper areas and when I realised I could earn more in a cleaner, nicer, cheaper part of the country then that all but sealed my fate and I’ve been applying for anything relevant that crops up. I’m really, really bored of de-valuing myself career wise. I’ll almost certainly never be a high earner. I’ve given myself burn out at work on 3 occasions and it’s affected my coping abilities. I don’t think I could handle the pressure of being really high up in my industry. I think I’d rather earn the best I can at this level and enjoy a gentle and comfortable life instead.

 

[Homesweethomesweethome]

IT administrator, 22k a year. Low income for my role but I WFH so can be on hand for school runs etc. Would love to do something more fulfilling but my husband has a demanding career and for me the kids come first. Maybe when the youngest hits teen years I could retrain. Always wanted to be a paramedic.

 

[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]

I'm a senior HR consultant, based in London. I'm 35 and I earn close to £60k, excluding quarterly bonuses.

Chuffed to bits about my salary, as 5 years ago I was on £26k!

No kids, and apart from our mortgage we don't have any significant expenses (like a car), so feel like I should be extremely comfortable. However, I stupidly ran up £11k debt on my credit card, for which I have nothing to show for (see Debt thread), so I'm sticking to an extremely strict budget until I pay it off.

 

[bunnyboo]

I work in tech, I'm on the product design side of things.

I make €40k a year. It's well below industry average but I'm just grateful to be in work. A year ago, I was on the dole with no hope.. getting more depressed as time went by. I also had about 20 different interviews before landing my current role. Tech companies can be ruthless. It's brutal out there.

 

[reha]

£21,000 year basic salary plus £3,500 on top for working shifts and weekends (1 in every six) - forensic scientist in the Midlands.

Honestly it’s not nearly enough for the work that we do and that is pretty much the max that I will ever get in this job, barring small pay increases each year, which is pants considering I capped out this salary in January 2016.

Add to that the fact that I’m fully trained, I am experienced in the job and I train people and I am seriously considering looking for another job with better wages!

ETA: my take home is just under £1600 per month when I factor in pension/tax/buying annual leave.