£35k is low, tbh. £40+ easily achievable for 3rd line. Or contracting.. a few of my friends are on £400+ per day for 3rd line admin.
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And I probably pay half what he does in rent for an identical place...What is your point, exactly?
What I posted is pretty much ****-on for this area.
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PS: My first IT job paid £10k (plus £8/day bonus if every call was under 7 minutes AND my 'wrap' time for the whole day was under 30 minutes...) and that was 8am-6pm mon-fri and 9-5 sat.
Must be the lowest paid job ive ever heard of for the hours, even waitrose or tesco pay more than that for stacking shelves. Depends on the area totally rendering the question very hard to answer. Round here i would expect a minimum of £25k for a job like that.
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The real question is, why on earth would you want a job in IT support? 
Ten hours a day dealing with the stroppy and the clueless... soul destroying.
Ten hours a day dealing with the stroppy and the clueless... soul destroying.
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I got (er...get) paid 28k for my job as Network Manager. Moving to another job as Senior Engineer without any people management responsibilities for a K less.
My technicians got paid from 9k up to 15k depending on experience.
Guess what they are doing when I leave? Giving my job (people management) to somebody with no people management experience (and people skills, he was one of my Techs) and replacing the server side part of my job with somebody on 13K. SharePoint 2003 experince required. They are having a laugh!
So, to answer the OP in the East Midlands at least anywhere from 8-9k all the way up to the mid twenties depending on knowledge and experience.
35K in London is like, what, 20K here? Forget that. I'd go to London for no less than £50K.
My technicians got paid from 9k up to 15k depending on experience.
Guess what they are doing when I leave? Giving my job (people management) to somebody with no people management experience (and people skills, he was one of my Techs) and replacing the server side part of my job with somebody on 13K. SharePoint 2003 experince required. They are having a laugh!
So, to answer the OP in the East Midlands at least anywhere from 8-9k all the way up to the mid twenties depending on knowledge and experience.
35K in London is like, what, 20K here? Forget that. I'd go to London for no less than £50K.
Put it this way, the turnover of staff there is so high that even now (four or five years on), I still meet people everywhere who have 'done their time' there. I was one of a group of 30 new starters...six months later when I had left, there were two others left.
In fact, of the people in this office (five at the moment), three have worked there at some point in the past...Two when I was there and one of them was actually on my team.
But it was six months of solid experience and it was enough of a base for me to make a big jump in both skill, responsibility, role and salary.
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In all honesty I'd disagree. The kind of experience we had is in essence totally useless and if anything hinders you. I was having more more joy just going in as a grad with a 2.1 in a random arts subject.....as soon as I'd mention 24Help / Convergys employers (in the NE who knew the companies reputations) would shudder!
Aye - I got offered, then told the funds were allocated elsewhere, an £11p/h 3month initial job with the NHS. Would have lapped that one up. FInish my current one on 21st of this month
The lower end of that scale sounds about right.
But ut depends on employers. I've seen retail manager's jobs for 11K!! Not worth getting out of bed for that, seriously underpaid.
I wouldn't get out of bed for less than £18k now I think
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Oh come on guys. Lets say you lost your job and needed to pay the Mortgage or lose the house, you'd both work for less than you said you wouldn't!
Anyway, my wife gets around 14.5K and she is very, very happy at that. Good employers and her highest paid job ever.
Greed! Pah
Depends how you mention them; I was referring to T4H earlier.
Nowadays I very blunty tell interviewers the truth; it was my first IT job, I took it to get six months' experience, it was a typical cattle market of a call centre and it was bloody hard work. Most interviewers laugh and say they know what I mean.
The Microsoft stuff was great; good bunch of people, six months of work then six months letting my ass grow big. Pay was average though.
Where you at now?
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How could you be very very happy on 14.5k?
I assume as part of a joint income..
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Eh?
How could you be happy on 50k? 100k 200k?
That's a stupid question.
She has very good employers who pay her for hours she doesn't work and 80% of her income is free to go on living the life of luxury.
What next? People in Terrace houses can't be happy?
I was quite happy when I was a van driver many years ago on 13k. I got to see most of the uk and had a good time.
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EDIT: my mate earns around 14k, has his own house, lives on his own, enjoys numerous hobbies and is as happy as a pig in poo.