Curiosity

[lnr]

A friend of mine recently wondered why they weren't earning 30K in programming, when it seemed like most of their friends were. So I'm curious as to what various people on my friends-list do. If you're not currently working but have done in the past feel free to fill this in with your most recent job in mind. If you don't want to reveal who you are, or if you don't have a livejournal, I'd still be interested in answers as comments instead.

NB Salary in UK pounds please, sorry for not making that clear in the question.

[Poll #256200]

Comments

[sparrowsion]

teachers are earning >40k

I passed my father's final salary (as Head of Sixth Form and Examinations Secretary) several years ago.

"too much" is an interesting question -- I think I'm paid about right by industry standards (particuarly as I haven't actually had a rise for over three years), but I also think that those industry standards pay programmers too much.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

In 1996 I worked for Oxfordshire County Council Education Department, primarily as a secretary but also updating teachers' pay records for pension purposes. (Special DfEE database that no one else could apparently understand even though I thought it was easypeasy.)

The average salary of a teacher then was about 5K more than I was being paid as a non-graduate secretary (and I was temp-to-perm, originally paid through a temping agency, so what I was worth to the department was about 40% more than I was paid). The majority of teachers were on about 2K more than I was. This is just before all the 'incentives' started (a friend now gets an extra 2Kpa for being an IT specialist - she teaches five-year-olds who don't care a whit about IT but never mind).

I once wanted to go into teaching. Never again after working there.