Salary

johny28

How much are you on?

Are you happy with what you get paid at the moment?

johny28

johny28 wrote:

How much are you on?

Are you happy with what you get paid at the moment?

Forgot to mention I'm on 40k and not happy with it.

6th

I was in the mid 40s in my last job but the company went under. 4 months out of work and a year ago went back to 36k .... finally worked myself back to my old wage so am not gonna start complaining any time soon.

hallelujah

What good is just stating figures when no-one knows years of experience or industry/role, etc? Get me?

RuggieBear

hallelujah wrote:

What good is just stating figures when no-one knows years of experience or industry/role, etc? Get me?

QFT

hermit

I am on 37k a year but I hate my job. Hopefully will have a new job in a few months which after the training period starts off at 24.5K per year - money isn't everything - I thought it was - but not any more.

johny28

RuggieBear wrote:

QFT

Hello,

What does QFT stands for?

Thanks

Tom Dunne

johny28 wrote:

Hello,

What does QFT stands for?

Thanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFT


Edit: forgot to say, I have a degree and a masters and I am paid the same as a guy I work with who has neither. :-(

Tar.Aldarion

Quoted for truth.

I'm just a student so i get 351 net a week.

seamus

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I'm just a student so i get 351 net a week.

Hey that's pretty damn good for a student. I remember living on less than €200 a week as a student.

Tar.Aldarion

I live on much less than that.
Just doing my placement for my course. A friend who works three nights a week gets 472. Mmm.

cold_filter

It was 30 euro an hour doing contracting and i could do up to 70 hours a week!

Tha contract finished now its 30K and i have a degree

connundrum

hermit wrote:

I am on 37k a year but I hate my job. Hopefully will have a new job in a few months which after the training period starts off at 24.5K per year - money isn't everything - I thought it was - but not any more.

I'm thinking of heading down that same road hermit, I don't know if I can go back to 24.5k though

Am 23, with a diploma + 1 years experience and work 2 jobs. Job 1 is 32k and job 2 is 5.5k.

The plan is within one year to be on 42k... or 24.5k

Sean12345

connundrum wrote:

I'm thinking of heading down that same road hermit, I don't know if I can go back to 24.5k though

Am 23, with a diploma + 1 years experience and work 2 jobs. Job 1 is 32k and job 2 is 5.5k.

The plan is within one year to be on 42k... or 24.5k

what are your two jobs out of interest?

Pythia

450 net a week in a temporary office job.

gary the great

hermit wrote:

I am on 37k a year but I hate my job. Hopefully will have a new job in a few months which after the training period starts off at 24.5K per year - money isn't everything - I thought it was - but not any more.

Took the words out of my mouth.
Im 23 and on 42k (i work in london), but hate the job and it makes my life hell everyday and morning.
I'll soon be handing in my notice and moving to a less paid but hopefully more enjoyable job back home.

I have learned the massive lesson that money is not everything - I thought it was.

Bulmers

60k + car,29yo, 6 yrs working exp..telecom engineer / contractor (permanent at the moment)

Kinetic^

gary the great wrote:

I have learned the massive lesson that money is not everything - I thought it was.

I recently realised the same and packed my low earning but great career potential job in. Not sure what I want to do but I know it wasn't what I was doing.

damnyanks

How tricky is it to move into the better paid areas after a few years? Basically I've turned down some jobs that pay over 30k sterling more then the one I'm taking (It makes me cry whe I think of it that way ).

By taking the job I'm also taking a big gamble as its a start up. Right now I know I can easily land the a well paid grad job with 1 of the big banks / consultancies in London but I wonder if that start to get itchy feet about people who have worked outside that industry for a few years!

digitally-yours

johny28 wrote:

Forgot to mention I'm on 40k and not happy with it.

May i ask you why your not happy with it ?
also what sector you work in ?

connundrum

Sean12345 wrote:

what are your two jobs out of interest?

Job 1 is property manager
Job 2 is doorman

If my current plan doesn't come to fruition then I might look to move into facilities management in a year - 18 months time.

johny28

digitally-yours wrote:

May i ask you why your not happy with it ?
also what sector you work in ?

Hi there,

certainly, here are the answers to your questions:

I'm in IT sector.

And I'm not happy with it because I know I could do better than this, but waiting for the right offer which seems to be lingering
Also, 40K this day of age is not that much in comparison to living cost..

Note, I'm not statisfied with what I earn but not feeling down because of it..if you know what I mean

Let me know if you think I should be happy with what I have!

Thanks

digitally-yours

johny28 wrote:

Hi there,

certainly, here are the answers to your questions:

I'm in IT sector.

And I'm not happy with it because I know I could do better than this, but waiting for the right offer which seems to be lingering
Also, 40K this day of age is not that much in comparison to living cost..

Note, I'm not statisfied with what I earn but not feeling down because of it..if you know what I mean

Let me know if you think I should be happy with what I have!

Thanks

Well in my opinion you are doing well.If you break the 35K barrier after that its all a matter of time and sooner or later the right offer will come.

I will aslo suggest when hunting Jobs consider the UK market too because on the whole sometime u get a better deal in UK for experienced people who are really serious in their career thing

How long you have been working in IT sector ?

P.S about being happy or not
I would say yes definately its not substantial but you are getting there so just be patient and wait for the moment

cmoney

Bulmers wrote:

60k + car,29yo, 6 yrs working exp..telecom engineer / contractor (permanent at the moment)

il be a graduate telecoms engineer soon enough with a masters..... is that what i can expect

have my 1st job sorted but not particularly happy with start off wage but as long as i enjoy it the wage hopefully wont bother me

McSpud

You will rarely get significant pay increase at existing company. You only get big increases when move companies.

I had pay freeze few years ago for 3 years & took me 9 months to get basic increase. When I finally moved held out for the money I wanted in the interview & got 2 increases in 6 months. After the long wait for any increase i space of 6 months I had 70%+ increase. Pay increases a bit like buses.

BTW the IT market is booming especially in software. Irish people are missing from the junior positions (not doing IT in college anymore) so it is mainly foreign nations & towards the more experienced market up to maybe a max of 60k its a employees market.

BostonB

McSpud wrote:

You will rarely get significant pay increase at existing company. You only get big increases when move companies....

Couldn't agree more.

Dunno about it booming though. Much better than it was for sure.