(Just reding the despondent threads about redundancies etc,) Meaning what qualifications that are linked/required for your work.
Me, 26K & none. (I'm a qualified motor mechanic who's now a prison officer.)
What else could I do to make 26K without any NVQ's etc? & be reasonably secure. (pension included!)
£36k
degree and PGCE
age:30
I was working in IT and only had Scottish Higher Grade (e.g. high school). I was making more than double your £26k. You might not call it secure any more though - I left as part of a round of redundancies.
£35K
degree Electronic Eng.
You could be a bus driver or tube driver, £30K plus. The bus you don't have to drive that well, brake hard and accelerate hard and generally make a crap journey for your passengers. Tube driver, operate a dead mans lever, free travel, cheap food and be able to sleep in while your trade union leader holds the general public to ransom on your behalf.
Well I would have been on £500,000 a week but my agents couldn't agree any terms with a team called Manchester City I think. So I'm staying in Italy instead.
I'm amazed anyone is replying to this thread!
Why its such a taboo subject to talk about your salary?
Nosey ****er....
I'm open about my income with those I know if they're interested and are open with me! I have an MSc which was a waste of time from a financial perspective.
djglover - MemberWhy its such a taboo subject to talk about your salary?
Weird one eh?
Spot on.
Lets show them poor buggers who may have just been made redundant how much they now DONT earn.
Spot on.
i earn cock-all and have cock-all qualifications, bit of correlation somewhere methinks!
[i]I have an MSc which was a waste of time from a financial perspective. [/i]
As was mine but it was a laugh going back to Uni again 5 years after getting my degree.
Now on embaressing low levels of money but its fairly secure and I quite enjoy it plus the hours are few.
Its an interesting thread, like djglover i don't see why people are so touchy about it.
Hons Degree in Civil & Transport Engineering (grad in 2000)
Left the UK last year on 29k, now working in canada on $81k which with the current exchange rate = 46k, nice, still skint all the time though.
I got a chemistry BSc last june, but can't find any work! (made more difficult due to the fact I refuse to work in any form of lab) So decided to just save (working in a pub) and sod off to oz for a year instead 🙂 - might have to sell the bike though 🙁
Oh and FWIW, A couple of A levels and 55K
Degree in Chemistry, work in a bike shop, earn a shit load less than any of the figures above. Much happier than when I was working in the oil industry though.
B Eng, M Eng, ACA
More than £60k, less than £80k.
ooohhh i reckon £70k 😉More than £60k, less than £80k.
Between 3 and 5 shillings aday..... depending on how many shoes i shine 😕
20 GCSEs,
4 A-levels,
4 Microsoft certifications,
£0k
2 BAs 😉 - 17 grand a year but I don't work full time. I also really like my job and life generally at the mo'. 😀
I have I think 11 GCSEs, 3 A-levels, and am an undergrad and fully expect to leave uni and not find a job because there won't be any left.
Think I might have to do another degree and just live off student loans until things look better...
£39K
HND Electronic Eng.
But I do almost sod all electronics these days, just manage a department of very random engineers keeping the NW supplied with flour!
Thankfully our business is not one that is impacted much by times of boom or bust.
rolfharris - MemberI have I think 11 GCSEs, 3 A-levels, and am an undergrad and fully expect to leave uni and not find a job because there won't be any left.
Think I might have to do another degree and just live off student loans until things look better...
I'm thinking of a couple of years of college too...
Was on high 20s until I got made redundant (Woohoo, someone contributed who has been made redundant I hear you all cry!), so now I'm on £60.50 a week!
BEng Degree, 4 years experience relevant to my industry since leaving uni, and a few other relevant qualifications. Looking at the jobs about currently similar to what I was doing, I'd say I was underpaid as most seem to be above £30k, so that's what I'm aiming for next. Though of course I'll just be happy to get some money coming in sooner rather than later if time drags on.
I run my own business, so as far as the tax man is concerned, I "earned" £9k last year. I have to make my own lunch as well....
Oh, sorry, 10 O-levels
Mind your own funkin business...
Actually, I've honestly no idea whatsoever. 'Ample' would probably be my best guess.
Snigle
:o)
[b]simondbarnes[/b]
hey Simon! I thought you'd not bothered rejoining the forum when I'd seen nothing from you, but now I've checked your list of topics I see our posts are almost entirely discontiguous :o)
nickc - MemberI run my own business, so as far as the tax man is concerned, I "earned" £9k last year. I have to make my own lunch as well....
Sounds like you better employ someone to make your lunches every day, Salary of ooooh, I don't know, about £9k would sound about right! 😉
Seriously though, is there a lower limit when you're self employed, which if you pay yourself below that amount then they'll automatically investigate? Otherwise shouldn't you ultimately aim to pay yourself Zero? Or am I missing the point?
don't really want to discuss wage specifics but I get paid quite a nice amount. It's not the highest quoted here but I feel quite reasonably paid for what I do and the trade I work in.
qualifications...hmmm, not sure how many actually got me where I am but...
10 O levels
2 A/O levels
3 A levels
HND Electronic Engineering
CISSP
JNCIA FW
currently studying for my CEH
HND Business & Finance.
IT Business Analyst in Aus - salary in line with what you'd find on Seek.com.au
As a business owner i am expected to pay myself a market salary for my occupation ... which I do although to be fair if i was in the market its les than 50% of what I would expect ! I do pay tax on the rest, just 10% less tax than what I should be paying. But it adds up. Total amount *thinks* roughly 4 times what i would get on the open market 🙂
BSc Computer Science and electrical Engineering plus some industry quals.
£16k, no qualifications, but i get to sit about and read newspapers all day and drink cups of tea/coffee/milk all day, and hardly ever work
I am on zero per annum (redundant) and I have a BSc (hons) 2.1 in environmental science. Also have 5 years lab experience. Any welsh employers out there?
I left High School when i was 16 with a handful of O-grades back in 1989, dunno what they are though? - never had a job interview in my life as everyone i've worked for has either known me or i've been recommended to them, other qualifications i've gathered up over the years in chronological order include motor vehicle mechanic, very handy as every cheap car i have owned has never been to a garage to get serviced/repaired saving me a fortune. Hnd Mechanical Engineering/CNC, again very handy, also sat night school for Hnd Electronic/Electrical Engineering at the same time as Mech Eng, never had to employ a sparky and can figure out how to repair pretty much anything that breaks down. I've also worked for various mates over the years who are plumbers/builders/sparky's etc so can bumble away with competence without having to pay for "expert advice". I managed a mates pub/hotel/restaurant for 2years whilst he was detained at "Her Majestys Pleasure" - bloody good fun but 2years in that line of work was enough.
Currently working as a chocolatier for a friends company, i got asked if i could help out one weekend and i'm still there 3yrs later (dunno how i wandered into this one?) for 15k/yr but job very secure,good laugh and can make up my own hrs to suit me so i'm quite happy.................if i could have left school earlier than 16 to work i would've jumped at the chance as school bored me shitless, prob didn't help going to 7 primary schools/4 high schools as my folks moved around looking for work.
Not motivated by money in the slightest, it comes....it goes.
mboy - Im same as nick.
The amount you pay yourself from your company is a fine balancing act of personal tax allowances, dividend taxation, and your childrens innate ability to absorb cash. Anything left over may or may not be left in the company. Given that nickc employs other people (which I dont) he has the responsibility of thinking about outgoings if income slows - so leaving some cash in the company is probably a good idea. I on the other hand can be more cavalier and run the company account at a bare minimum 🙂
As for Quals etc: MA, MSc, Professional Member of the RICS.
Income? Enough for me and my family not to be wanting even if I only want to work 2 or 3 days a week.
35k for a 35 hours a week! With O/T another 20k possible! Left school in 91 an joined British rail, got 5 GCSE grade D in Maths english and science, plus a couple of E's in french and german! Still on the railway 17 and a half year later and a signalman for network rail!
My salary is around £90 a week, though I have shares in a company that's doing quite well.
B Eng Mech Eng Hons (Design)- 2/2 Huddersfield
BA, MA (although everyone else in my dept. have PhDs). £38k.
(Although thanks to a personal credit crunch called 'my ex-wife' the banks see most of it, in fact my interest payments are what are keeping them going. Still, two have just been paid off and the 'biggies' will be gone by this time next year. Yes!)
[i]My salary is around £90 a week[/i]
that much?
I'm a Registered Nurse in NZ (in paediatrics/obstetrics) I earn $60,000 a year plus penals (Five weeks holiday). I work six 12hour shifts a fortnight which is 8 hours short of full time and I look after my kids six days in every 14. nursing gets a bad rep some of the time but I've worked and travelled all over the world with it, and fortunately I don't have to (or haven't had to thus far) worry about redundancies that many others do
that much?
That's the maximum you can earn, and get your stamp paid for you, without incurring tax.
Actually, it looks like £116 now or something. It's the basic personal allowance.
I think I earn the same 🙂 Certainly looks like that in my bank account after the Missus has "sorted out the tax". 🙂
34 years old. BEng (Hons) 2:1 Mech Eng and I'm not earning anywhere near what my qualifications suggest I should. I made a couple of poor decissions about who to work for when I left uni and it seems I don't have the "experience" that should accompany my years.
Still, if I run out of loo roll, I can always use my degree.
Im assuming some of the people oh here take dividends. 😉
Ive got only 4 GCSEs with decent results and the rest are pish a couple of collage courses under my belt and a year at Uni doing Commerce. I am now back at college (work funded) doing a CILT course.
Earn nearly £27k pretty stable job.
[i]couple of collage courses under my belt[/i]
education Blue Peter stylee?
🙂
Did a degree in geography and environmental something MSc.
On about £60k overall now but spend 101% of my earnings every month!
You get 35k for being a signalman!? Blimey - no wonder the trains cost so much. No offence like. 😛
I only have A levels, did waste 3 years at uni playing at being a drunken bum. Now work in the engineering dept at the local water authority repairing and relaying sewers. Basic wage is over £20k but its taken a while to work up to this as I started here in the call centre 3 years ago after 4 years in the banking industry. Now 28, and although I don't earn that much, I have a secure job, with good benefits, and good future prospects.
BSc, MSc, and various professional letters which mean **** all in the real world. Earn enough for what I want. As with sdb, was earning lots more but much happier now.
Stoner. All Im missing is the badge!
Seriously though, is there a lower limit when you're self employed, which if you pay yourself below that amount then they'll automatically investigate? Otherwise shouldn't you ultimately aim to pay yourself Zero? Or am I missing the point?
It's quite normal practice for company directors to pay themselves a minimum wage (as Brant said) and take a director's dividend. That way you only pay corporation tax at 21% rather than income tax.
...however, it's not all roses as now if you receive the bulk of your income as share dividend you have to pay a certain amount of tax in advance, not arrears. All a nice little one-off boost to Gordon's coffers this year...
Same as Bruneep, £30,877.
Sod all qualifications, but pretty secure for the long term, unless people stop having fires!
BSc Chemistry
Currently earning £60.50/week down from about £450/week a month ago. 🙁
self employed
turnover between 30 and 35K
I pay tax on about 22K of that normally
10 GCSE's, 4 A levels and a completed but not certified HND
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to be honest qualifications mean nothing, i'm far more educated than most people in my industry but thats doesn't make me any better at it
my wife has a PHD, 2 Masters and a Degree but earns middle management kind of money at a university
i should say though that i only work about 180 days a year and am doing exactly what i wanted to do when i was at school 🙂
Well contractors could put down a realistic income if they really wanted to.... I was on between £500 and £550 a day when I did that. If you ignore IR35, which I guess peoples still do, then you end up with more than someone earning the equivalent salary.
I left school in 1973 with a handful of CSE's (that's what they had in the olden days before GCSE's :-)). Along the way I've done a few more qualifications including an HNC in Mechatronics, and now I'm on somewhere between £40k & £60k a year., but more importantly the mortgage is paid off and the kids are grown up (but not all have them have left home YET).
I might form a company which my employer pays in order for me to come in to work...
7 GCSEs (A, B, 5Cs)
4 A levels (A, C, D, C)
2.1 BA in Education (plus whatever made me a qualified primary school teacher)
MSc in IT
Now teaching A level ICT and on the lowest point on the higher pay scale, so getting something like £32k a year. I failed GCSE IT and had to resit my A levels to get enough to go to uni 🙂
Blimey - 9 GCSEs, 4 A lvls, 6 years at uni to get a BVetMed. Work silly hours for less than a lot of people on here.
Things have improved a bit since I started locum work but even so.
Still, I enjoy my job, which is something not many people can say :o)
My accountant gives me £33,600.00 out of my business, so I guess about 45K. But I get my cars, phone etc covered as well. Though up until a year ago I was on a lot lot less whilst I built the business up. Just got an investor on board and we're going for it. So I could be back to earning a big fat zero in six months.
No qualifications, might have some CSE's. though you probably guessed that from my posts.
I'm in a similar position to Onzadog.....
Did Mech Eng with Aeronautics at uni, then got a job doing engineering in a completely unrelated area (industrial inkjet)....then moved to another job still in inkjet.
Didn't make the best job decisions looking back, but they seemed OK at the time. Am now redundant and finding that the majority of vacancies aren't particularly interested in someone with my experience/skills.
Am currently making it clear to agencies etc. that I am keen to move away from inkjet and get a wider range of experiences. Also determined in my next job to do as many training courses etc. as possible. I'm quite tempted to do an OU Electronics degree or something too.
Degree, post-grad professional exams, 2 years on-job training. I earn lots, work rather harder than I would like and do not greatly enjoy my work. A good friend who has just been made redundant from my firm on a decent package is seeing it as a brilliant opportunity to get out and do something completely different.
Chins up people.
🙂
BSc in Applied Biochemistry, which I why I now work as a Release Manager at a software company. I've been here a while now, which is why I get the big bucks... about £40k.
Mind you, I was earning more in 2000 when I was contracting, but then the market fell out of testing. Which is why I ended up working as a highways inspector for a year. I really quite enjoyed that job.
13 GCEs, 4 A levels, 2 S levels, BSc Hons in Maths - used to be around 60K+ a year but gave it up for a career change. Current year probably around 25K (disposable income), next year who knows...
3 o levels and an HNC in Fabrication/ welding .Above 40% tax bracket as a shiftworker in oil industry (onshore)
26 years old, HNC Instrumentation, NVQ3 Instrument Maintenance, £47,500, very safe staff job, can't complain.
I've got a BA and am working hard on getting a PhD. Before I started the PhD I used to earn £35,000 doing a programming job, and not have to work very hard. Now, I've worked really quite hard for 3 years, and got myself a job lined up for when I submit, paying £26,000. I have a crazy pension though, and it's jolly fun stuff that I work on, to be honest it feels a bit cheeky that people will pay me to do it.
Joe
8 GCSE (I failed woodwork)
3 A-Levels
BA (Hons)
BCU 1*
High thirties plus generous pension and package.
Somewhat ironically, I originally wanted to be a teacher, but back when I wanted to be a teacher they were paid **** all so I decided against it. Looks like I could still retrain and not take a particularly massive salary drop.
Only flicked through this tread but given the salary figures some of you appear to be earning I hope most of you are at the the 'top of your game'. Otherwise, its no wonder things in this country cost so F***ing much.
Me - £453.00 pcm
I'm on £34k - Senior Software Engineer (11 years experience).
Working partly from home and partly in Rosyth (across the Forth from Edinburgh). I have a Computer Science Bsc Hons and 6 Highers. I'm 33.
Degree, post-grad professional exams, 2 years on-job training. I earn lots, work rather harder than I would like and do not greatly enjoy my work.
Same as BD, except for the money bit - there's a significant cash downside to being a lawyer outside London. Namely, about 50% on average. And the job security and hours are as sh*t as everywhere else. I regularly wonder how on earth I have allowed myself to get into this position.
[i]Only flicked through this tread but given the salary figures some of you appear to be earning I hope most of you are at the the 'top of your game'. Otherwise, its no wonder things in this country cost so F***ing much.[/i]
Hear, hear.
Mind you, I'd have had 4 A-levels if it wasn't for you 😉
what would be more interresting is 'how much do you earn and what bike(s) do you own?'
Degree in Economics (maths, physics and bionics 😉 ) after going back to uni in my mid 20's. Earn just under £40k from employment. Plus some more as a fat cat landlord.