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Prothet_of_Doom

Engineer. Freelance via ltd company. Charge the going rate for a Chartered Engineer working freelance in Aerospace. Pay myself £24800 in salary and dividend.

Figure decided at because if you take off what my mortgage used to cost, off the last Permanent p60 when I had a proper job, which shows as £36K in 2008-2009, it works out about even. I haven't given myself a payrise in 4 years. Things are starting to get tight.

Malkin157

33 years old

Data Manager for a large secondary school with sixth form.

Earn: £33,000


I absolutely love my job. Every single day is brilliant.

I guess the one down side is that every school tends to have only one person doing the data so you are a bit of an island. However it is great when you get to network with other data managers - every school works differently.

Going to add I also love MS Excel, what a beautiful thing that spreadsheet software is. If you can't envisage what a data manager does in a school, then I have started a blog:

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Recommend this career to anyone. Happy to help anyone with any questions about how to get into it, or if teachers etc like my brand of data analysis.

spock007

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

Engineer. Freelance via ltd company. Charge the going rate for a Chartered Engineer working freelance in Aerospace. Pay myself £24800 in salary and dividend.

Figure decided at because if you take off what my mortgage used to cost, off the last Permanent p60 when I had a proper job, which shows as £36K in 2008-2009, it works out about even. I haven't given myself a payrise in 4 years. Things are starting to get tight.

Chartered aerospace engineer on less than £50k (assuming you're over 30)...!?!?

Black_Dynamite

I have an interview tomorrow to become a Web Developer on £28,000. Hopefully it happens as its a £5,000 wage bump and it is a stones throw from my home

wavygravy60

I'm 47 and work in the fresh produce industry, we supply veg to big supermarkets.
Career earnings on age basis:-

21 - £6500
23 - £11500 (moved company)
25 - £20,000 (big promotion)
30 - £28,000
32 - £31,000 (moved company)
39 - £36,000 (moved company)
47 - £44,000

No bonus, no final salary scheme (went years ago), 32 days hols

In my industry, we don't have unions to pay bargain for us (thank goodness), or scale points and grades to claw our way up. The only way to get what you think you are worth is to move to a company who are prepared to pay. Looking at my pay I was way better off aged 25 than I am now...but I'm not complaining.

charleybear

19 Retail op
£100 - £200 depending on my hours

spock007

Any engineers here who quit to go into marketing/sales/management /other industry?

late_bloomer

28 - I work from home developing and selling own software products online so earnings fluctuate. So far this year it's been - £51,609.

Self employed so no pension or any other perks.

John_Pierpoint

spock007 wrote: »

Any engineers here who quit to go into marketing/sales/management /other industry?

I think you need to define what you mean by "engineer".
A bloke who tinkers with exhibits at our local steam fair site probably calls himself an engineer.

spock007

Like one of the other posters on this thread I saw, I design integrated circuits at the nanometre scale for all sorts of applications. You? And I agree, no recognition in the UK. Salaries for engineers seem to be dwindling in most countries now, though. It really looks true in taht if you want dosh, go into law/finance/IT consulting/oil & gas/accountancy etc.