is 13.5k a good salary?

GrammarGirl

woody01 wrote: »

Maybe i am not in the 'real world' sometimes but i cannot imagine how earning £25K is a liveable wage let alone £13.5K.

No, I don't think you are in the real world! :rotfl:

My first graduate job two years ago started on 16k. I progressed quite quickly to 17k, then 18k and left on 19k after 18 months in the role. I'm on my second job now and earn 22k. Hopefully the progression will be just as quick, but I started my job at the height of the 'credit bubble' in 2007 and times are very different now. Wage inflation is less common and more people are willing to take lower paid jobs just to keep them in work.

To the OP, I'd say stay with your parents and really knuckle down looking for a great first job. There's nothing worse than working somewhere you hate and for 13.5k I'd resent it even more. Good luck.

brians_daughter

It depends on your outgoings! pain and simple. for example my outgoings are a minumum of £1900 pcm my mortgage is £800pcm, child care is £300pcm, household bills £600pcm then fuel etc so i couldnt even pay my mortgage on 13.5k after deductions.

But if you are living at home and paying a minimal rent etc then you should be able to live and save too.

You will find you adapt your lifestyle to what you earn.. if its £13k or £50k you will always find a way to spend/save/use it.

shell1000

i was earning 11.5k as a fresh graduate back in 1999, yeah 10 years ago but i lived with my parents and started to pay off my student loans and overdrafts. i guess you have to take the opportunities when they arise as they will aid your experience in getting another job.

i worked hard to pay my debt off and 10 years later i earn 35k a year and i now have a masters gained whilst studying part time whilst working full time! so yes searching for jobs and more are possible when you work full time.. it depends how much you want something.

My job is hard, sometimes stressful but is quite secure and so sometimes you have to make sacrifices. I would love to work in the music industry instead of engineering, but i see my friends who took that path scrimping and saving and that certainly is not the life that i want.

I guess what im trying to say is life is what you make it, but see these opportunities as stepping stones, and in light of the current economic situation any decent experience on your cv might set you apart from other job applicants.

Goodluck with whatever you choose!

ps. we ALWAYS live to our income!! im skinter than ever now!

iamana1ias

coffee_prince wrote: »

I've had this full time job offer pending for a long time, but I am kinda scared because I've never had a proper job before (recent graduate). The job seems boring and stressful and tbh I've been working out what I would have left after tax, Ni, council tax, bills and rent, and it isn't a lot.

I would've snatched this job if i wasn't already working, but atm I am working part time in a shop and that affords me with the option of sticking with this and looking for something else that is slightly more when I have time. But I hate this job at the moment, its really killing me in terms of stress.

I think 15k is a good wage to move out of my family home. I have an overdraft which I must clear off in a year, I am not sure 13k is a lot of money?



Thanks

You're very focussed on the negatives (how can a part time job in a shop be stressful? ).

10 or so years ago I worked full time and part time to support myself. I worked 65 hours a week and made about £15k a year between both jobs.

2 years later I then used that hard work and experience to get a full time job which paid around £17k per year and used the extra 25 hours a week to study. Within 10 years I had trebled my income. I didn't have a degree, but I'd shown I had willing and experience. You don't have any experience so can't command the higher salaries yet. You need to knuckle down and get some experience to be able to climb the ladder.

paulfoel

I dont reckon £13.K is great but its better than nothing.

Did you say you were a graduate?

I guess it depends on what you do and what part of the country. I'm in South Wales and I'm pretty sure the electrical eng/computer graduates get about 22K here.

If I remember correctly I got £12K 20 years in my first job.

venus_in_furs

Is the job linked to your degree? If it gives you valuable experience in the field you want to work in, i would tough it out for a while, as the job market at the moment for graduates is rubbish. I have been looking for a decent job for ages and i am just taking anything i can get at the moment. The experience you gain from that job could help you get a better job were you earn more money and be picked over the graduate with no experience who decided to wait.


If you do Maybe stay at your rents or share a flat with some people. It is possible, all my grad friends earn under 20k round where i live and they survive!

Any

What is your degree in? Does it have anything to do with job?

I am sorry, but everyone say £graduate" and expect loads of money. The reality is different. There is loads of degrees out there which give you absolutely nothing in terms of employability.

Also the OP hasn't said about having ANY experience.

Another thing to consider is personality. From what the OP said so far (I am sorry if this is going to sound to harsh) I have to say he wouldn't be my choice for new member of staff. Moan moan moan moan.....

Part time job - extremely stresfull
Looking for new job in full time role - feigning a sick days????? How about holidays?? That is what the rest of the nation do.


OP - once you have A JOB, it is much easier to go high up.

I also don't understand how job can be "boring" and "stresfull" at the same time.

Are there any jobs around? what did the recruitment agency say?? Are you being lined up for more interviews or is it quiet?

If you say this job has been lined up for while and then mention recruitment agency, I seriously doubt this position is still open. They usually interview quite a few people at once and if they don't hear, the next best person is waiting on the phone..

DCFC79

£13,500 is better salary than what i get so yes £13,500 is a good salary well im my eyes it is

freakyogre

Any wrote: »

I also don't understand how job can be "boring" and "stresfull" at the same time.

I thought the same. Surely if it's boring there's nothing for you to do (that's challenging anyway), so no need to be stressed. I hate the way being 'stressed' is thrown around by so many people these days.

woody01

GrammarGirl wrote: »

No, I don't think you are in the real world! :rotfl:

My first graduate job two years ago started on 16k. I progressed quite quickly to 17k, then 18k and left on 19k after 18 months in the role. I'm on my second job now and earn 22k. Hopefully the progression will be just as quick, but I started my job at the height of the 'credit bubble' in 2007 and times are very different now. Wage inflation is less common and more people are willing to take lower paid jobs just to keep them in work.

To the OP, I'd say stay with your parents and really knuckle down looking for a great first job. There's nothing worse than working somewhere you hate and for 13.5k I'd resent it even more. Good luck.

Or maybe i am worth paying more