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Just out of interest how old are you and how much do you get paid?
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50k at 38 in higher education.0
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23, £14,000 full time. #terrible0
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27. £45k/year + 12% pension contributions by employer.
Living in London means 50% of net salary is rent alone. Do like the job - learning loads.0 -
35 Self-employed here £67k pa at the moment in engineering0
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Civil Service (Executive Agency) so my salary, or at least the range, is known to my colleagues. Following relatively recent promotion, I'm on just shy of £38k at 31.
My current pay range extends to about £43k and it takes about 5 years to get to the top of the band, but I'd hope to be in a position to apply for any promotion opportunities before then.0 -
34 earning £73k in IT, work from home so save loads on commuting costs0
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Started work at 18 after dropping out of university...
18 years old - approx £10-12k (temping, so pay and hours varied but it was pretty much full-time)
20 - first permanent job, £15k.
22 - promotion, £18k
Now 23 and on £19.5k.Kate.0 -
Thanks for everyone's input, it's rally interesting to see the variety!
Did you expect to see a direct correlation between age and salary?
No high flying 24 year olds earning a fortune as traders on the stock exchange, or 62 year olds settled on a production line on NMW?
Really?0 -
Wow.
I'm surprised so many have seemingly answered honestly rather than slating you for daring to ask as tends to usually be the case.
I'm 29. I work 45-60 hours per week, but usually around 50 i'd say on average.
I get between £18k-£19k pa. I would've scraped over £19k this time round if i hadn't had a week of illness. As it stands i'll be approx £18.8k.
General labouring work.
I also work most Saturday's, but get Sunday's off (woo hoo). Out of 48 Saturday's i'd probably work about 35 of them at a guess.0 -
SueC it's interesting to see and ask this question cos it's so taboo
Nine_Lives agree a lot of ppl are answering which is great as its so personal. Glad ppl are not being negative about it and can just read and move onto another thread.0
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