Those who make £100K+ a year, what do you do?

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Leader_Bee@reddit

My brother is a chartered engineer in the oil industry

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Software development. My title is Senior Software Engineer at a huge, international company that everybody knows and nobody would expect to have software engineers. A little over £90k salary, around £115k with bonus. I'm a very lucky boy.

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MightyDevOps@reddit

Thats not much compared to the US salaries + stock , they are fucking you over

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implicit_return@reddit

It's also not much compared to a Premier League midfielder, but I don't have to run up and down a field for 90 minutes.

Corporations fucking over their employees is literally the basis of our economic model. If they didn't pay me less than the value I create then it wouldn't be capitasm. But given that hellscape as context, I am very happy with my decision to earn less than I could elsewhere in return for a great work/life balance and a big discount on products that I enjoy.

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Front_Scholar9757@reddit

Thats amazing! Is it usual to have a bonus larger than your salary?

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implicit_return@reddit

£115 with bonus, as in total of both!

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NoCold3997@reddit

I'm retired ..im sure they'll be a witch hunt soon or major downvoting.. I swear these questions just bring out the worse in people.

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gander8622@reddit

Retired on £100k a year? Blooming 'eck. Sounds lovely.

I for one congratulate you on getting to that position.

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NoCold3997@reddit

I'm 57 now ..retired a few years ago ..but thank you.

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secretlysliving@reddit

Freelance social media manager

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hornyanonuk@reddit

Would love to know how you get into that

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secretlysliving@reddit

I studied marketing (not essential though), then worked for a company doing their marketing and realised I preferred social media.

I started by reaching out to business owners I already knew and offered to manage their socials.

Once I had results and knew I was good, I started to charge more and be more selective with clients.

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TheRebelPercy@reddit

Lots of overtime on the railway.

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FinanceMan110@reddit

Accountant and own a used car dealership with my brother.

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Prize-Phrase-7042@reddit

Airline pilot.

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Velo_Rapide@reddit

Jealous. Should have challenged myself with this career path...

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BeersAndGym@reddit

Same

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ijasonwaterfalls@reddit

Finance - equity research

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Ottazrule@reddit

Finance systems consultancy (Oracle EBS)

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dpk-s89@reddit

Why does it still look like something from the 1990s?

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UniquePotato@reddit

Being aesthetically pleasing isn’t a priority

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dpk-s89@reddit

I have to use it most days and its horrible to look at 😢

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SeniorPea8614@reddit

It probably is

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skum448@reddit

Database engineering and solution architect at trading house.

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virgin0109@reddit

Doctor

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Severus_1987@reddit

Management consultant

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getoutmywayatonce@reddit

My grandad was on around 100k a year via his pension towards the end because of the it being index linked so adjusted for inflation. He was an NHS surgeon, but that much as a pension still feels hard to wrap my head around in today’s money lol.

I’m a brokie myself but anyone I personally know on or above that figure today in the UK has been somewhere in the finance sphere, law (magic circle), or tech.

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Separate_Storage_532@reddit

Buy low, sell high (began in finance).

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cgknight1@reddit

Education consultancy work.

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adequatemum@reddit

I'm interested to know what this entails

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HELMET_OF_CECH@reddit

A professional thief then.

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ExpressGreen@reddit

Are you able go to go into more detail about what you do?

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purplepatch@reddit

Doctor

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jc456_@reddit

YouTube stuff

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

Not me but wife runs a livery yard, is a moderately successful event rider and sells horses that she’s worked with. I don’t work ….. unless you class ‘mooching off the successful wife’ as work in which case Im a CEO

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Fluffy_Ad2274@reddit

Do you actually not work? Or are you an unpaid driver, handyman, groom etc etc?

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

No I don’t work. I mean obviously when she’s out eventing, busy, Im bored etc I’ll happily pop down to sort her other horses out but yeh I’ve not worked since 2020.

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hotchy1@reddit

Living the dream. Congrats haha.

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CalicoDesertOasis@reddit

Ah yes I’ve been CEO of mooching off my husband for a while now. We should have a conference!

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Fantastic_Tomorrow53@reddit

Real estate - property development

Development management

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Awkward-Warning-9238@reddit

Sell water

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billy_tables@reddit

Software engineering

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Tundur@reddit

Same, but I had to go overseas to hit 100k without needing a very senior position.

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Zealousideal_Low1287@reddit

To where? The US? Or?

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Various_Good_6964@reddit

Appropriate name little billy

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squeekypengin@reddit

Working my way towards the 100k a year goal within the next 5 years. I hope to own my own business in driving instruction

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ooh_bit_of_bush@reddit

I also don't earn £100k a year but I chose not to answer because I'm not a gimp, as OP wasn't looking for people who don't.

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CrossCityLine@reddit

!dick

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Dapper_Otters@reddit

Pahaha, perfect response.

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squeekypengin@reddit

Haha wow so touchy 😅 I know plenty multi car instructors who earn over 100k. Even got trained by one. So I added a personal touch chill out man 😅

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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

A top level comment (one that is not a reply) should be a good faith and genuine attempt to answer the question

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Remote-Pool7787@reddit

That’s nice. But you’re currently working 2 jobs because 1 won’t pay. Don’t think that’s exactly what OP is looking for mate

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squeekypengin@reddit

Down to 1 job now and on 45k a year, I’ve managed to sort out a lot in a short time. Now im currently researching Everythinf to set up a multi vehicle driving school. It is what OP is looking for because I know plenty multi car instructor earning over 100k. He asked for jobs that bring that in and I answered with a personal touch. Sorry that thats bothered you so much to leave a patronising comment 😅

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Scarred_fish@reddit

Grow table hens.

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SkynBonce@reddit

What their Dad tells them to do i imagine.

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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

A top level comment (one that is not a reply) should be a good faith and genuine attempt to answer the question

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CalicoDesertOasis@reddit

Between my salaried job and my self employed work I make over 100k and my dad had nothing to do with it.

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uneasy-chicken@reddit

Head of something at a plc

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dlystyr@reddit

Cyber / Information Security - Finance

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BLightyear67@reddit

MD of a travel business

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xerojupiter@reddit

Sustainability. Who knew?

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HighNimpact@reddit

Solicitor

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humunculus43@reddit

Insurance

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Muted_Jello_7628@reddit

Industrial Cleaning company director

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Familiar-Adeptness25@reddit

Tech investment banking

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AF_II@reddit

Director of X (middle management) UN organisation (more than that would be doxxing my household).

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Jazzlike-Plate-4616@reddit

Too late, look behind you

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MissionFig5582@reddit

Technical Sales Support in Fintech. Works out about 100k.

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Willeth@reddit

Make £83k a year and get made redundant just before the end of the tax year.

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WhyToHide@reddit

Sorry to hear this - best of luck, hopefully you'll land a new job very soon.

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Willeth@reddit

Oh, I already have, this was a year ago. Thanks.

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0olon_Colluphid@reddit

Lol - almost the same story here! Was an academic manager in in a university - nice pay off for twenty plus years service and then my pension lump sum on top pushed me massively over six figures. Sadly I now have to live on that until I can find a job in this market...

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Weekly_Mammoth6926@reddit

Sorry to hear this, but it doesn’t answer the question does it.

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stampmanf12020@reddit

MD of a music company.

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ProfPMJ-123@reddit

I’m an engineer (well, a Head Of Engineering).

About 30 years experience.

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Bastrato@reddit

I work in construction management (not on site) as a day job, develop properties on the side, do the odd barrow job making stairs.

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WGSMA@reddit

I’m a Senior manager for a large company’s finance department. I oversee many teams dealing with banking, cash management, financial statements, compliance with regulatory requirements ect.

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ok-awesome@reddit

Hitman

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Various_Good_6964@reddit

Mostly just pretend like I know what I'm talking about

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not_microwave_safe@reddit

I think that’s adulthood in a nutshell.

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N-F-F-C@reddit

Top 5% is on less than 100k

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zylema@reddit

Software Engineer

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Beabettame@reddit

Project manager

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MGBGTLE@reddit

Oil and Gas, subsea installation and maintenance

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HistoryDisastrous493@reddit

Business intelligence consultant in the public sector

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No-Dinner-3715@reddit

Project Director - Construction

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Nervous_Difficulty_6@reddit

Hi Project Director, I’m a QS 👍

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Comprehensive_Cut437@reddit

Solicitor

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QSBW97@reddit

Personally, I'm not in that bracket, but I know a few people who are. They're all high up in construction, operations manager, contract director, project directors, etc. In my experiance your job will result in you knowing more people who earn "X" I know more people earning above 50k than people below it at this point, etc

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Street-Frame1575@reddit

Sales

Trading

Management

Compliance

Quant

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