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Just out of interest how old are you and how much do you get paid?

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  • saker75
    saker75 Posts: 363 Forumite
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    50k at 38 in higher education.
  • mkknrtn
    mkknrtn Posts: 40 Forumite
    23, £14,000 full time. #terrible
  • ohit
    ohit Posts: 371 Forumite
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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.
  • Carlos77
    Carlos77 Posts: 154 Forumite
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    35 Self-employed here £67k pa at the moment in engineering
  • de_g.
    de_g. Posts: 121 Forumite
    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.
  • 34 earning £73k in IT, work from home so save loads on commuting costs
  • Katexx
    Katexx Posts: 189 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    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.
  • SueC_2
    SueC_2 Posts: 1,673 Forumite
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    mayling03 wrote: »
    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?
  • Nine_Lives
    Nine_Lives Posts: 3,031 Forumite
    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.
  • ironlady2022
    ironlady2022 Posts: 1,574 Forumite
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    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.
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