The Official "How Much I Earn/What Job I Do" Information Thread

britboy4321 · 21 Jun 2011 at 19:30

Lucero said:
This is my current contract for 4 weeks work. Wondering what I should do with all the cash!

Time to bend over for the tax man!!!

I hope you're on flat-rate VAT. Otherwise you're flushing a few % down the toilet.

KaHn · 21 Jun 2011 at 22:00

alx said:
I may be moving up in Sep/Oct time, most likely finding out at the end of June.

Give me a shout mate, few ocukers up here now.

KaHn

Delvis · 22 Jun 2011 at 09:17

Liquid_Entity said:
this thread is depressing. I really need to re-educate myself.

Tell me about it

Seems like the last 8 years of my working life have been pointless, I'm just back to where I started!!!!

Zosimus · 22 Jun 2011 at 09:28

Age : 26-30
Salary : £20-25k
Job Sector : IT Networking (Housing / Social Landlord)
Education : 5
Hours : 37.5 + unpaid overtime / flexi

alx · 22 Jun 2011 at 10:11

KaHn said:
Give me a shout mate, few ocukers up here now.

KaHn

Will do

Yeah -Ad- is moving up there as well I believe.

alx · 5 Jul 2011 at 23:04

Ahleckz said:
Lived there for seven years, commiserations.

But if I could somehow get into the oil and gas industry (preferably in sales) then I'd be happy to move back there for the money.

Just curious, what did you dislike about it? The weather??

mcast · 5 Jul 2011 at 23:36

Andr3w said:
Man, you guys are rich

You'll find quite a few being generous with the truth, ask them to post their non shopped pay cheques and this thread would get quiet fast.

Rotty · 5 Jul 2011 at 23:40

Age: 41-50
Salary: £60,001 - £80,000
Occupation: IT
Education: Level 3
Location: Notts

Dunks · 5 Jul 2011 at 23:43

alx said:
Will do

Yeah -Ad- is moving up there as well I believe.

OcUK Aberdeen meet?

Toxic Babyface · 6 Jul 2011 at 06:56

Age: 26-30
Salary: £20-£25k
Occupation: Security (it does not even feel like a proper job)
Education: Level 2
Hours: 60+

should have tried harder when I was at school

nuttyprot · 6 Jul 2011 at 07:56

Age: 28
Salary: N/A
Job: Quit my job last week as police officer with 12 of my colleagues due to government cuts. Basically exspected us to take pay cuts we told them to get lost
Education: Level 5
Hrs per week: N/A

Mr^B · 6 Jul 2011 at 07:59

mcast said:
You'll find quite a few being generous with the truth, ask them to post their non shopped pay cheques and this thread would get quiet fast.

It depends, the salaries being quoted seem reasonable.

Don't forget some of us are quite old now, and it's not unreasonable to expect a 6 figure salary if you are good at your job and approaching your 40s...you should be sufficiently rewarded for extensive experience (for which there is no substitute).

Castiel · 6 Jul 2011 at 08:22

I'm on the cusp of a complete occupational and educational change. I will be, by the end of this year (interracial notice has been given), leaving full time commercial employment and joining the vastly underpaid world of academia.

Years of p/t study finally pays off. I'm pooing myself if I'm honest though....

alx · 6 Jul 2011 at 08:56

Dunks said:
OcUK Aberdeen meet?

Sounds like a possible plan

Delvis · 6 Jul 2011 at 09:24

This thread depresses me

MeEsH BaKkA · 6 Jul 2011 at 09:34

mcast said:
You'll find quite a few being generous with the truth, ask them to post their non shopped pay cheques and this thread would get quiet fast.

I would be quite happy to upload my P60, but I don't think that is the point of this thread.

As it has been said earlier this is a computer forum so it's reasonable to assume that there is a larger portion of educated people on here therefore you would expect higher than average wages. It's not as if 90% of people have said they have 80k+ jobs, sure some will exaggerate but who cares.

celliott · 6 Jul 2011 at 11:08

Age: 19-21
Salary : £30k-40k
Job Sector : Medical IT Specialist and self-employed hosting business
Education : 3
Hours : 42

Ahleckz · 6 Jul 2011 at 11:15

alx said:
Just curious, what did you dislike about it? The weather??

The people (miserable, gossiping, nosy, intolerable (irony much?) and just not very pleasant), the city (dirty, crampt, ugly), the lack of things to do, the fact that everyone knows everyone and their business and just the smallness of it.

Perhaps it's got something to do with hating the place you grew up, but I really dislike the place. But if I could get into the O&G sector in a sales role, I would happily move back. Go figure?

Fusion · 30 Jul 2011 at 08:42

Age: 22-25
Salary: 25k
Job: Production Engineer (Electronics manufacturing)
Education: Level 6
Hours worked: 37hrs contract, ~39 at present with OT.

p4radox · 30 Jul 2011 at 09:30

Age : 22-25
Salary : £25k - £30k
Job Sector : Electrical Engineering (Automotive design)
Education : 7
Hours : 37.5