I’ve recently got an opportunity to move to a new employer for a £11k pay rise! I’m thrilled – grew up poor and never imagined I’d earn so much.
I feel a little guilty about leaving my lovely current employer, where I’ve only been a few months. But… y’know… £11k pay rise and fully remote, so…
What’s the biggest jump you’ve ever had, either from promotions or moving jobs? Doesn’t necessarily have to be in terms of pay; it could be a big jump in responsibility too.
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Like 70k.
I didn’t spend more than before.
60k to 120k
Ironically, my very first post-uni job was my best ever paying job. This was overseas. Hard to make comparisons directly, but I essentially went from something along the lines of £50-60k down to £21.7k when I moved back. Yowch.
My last job move was 50% payrise, I went up £13k
I went from a project admin on £19k to Office Manager on £28k on an internal job move.
My pay went up by 25 percent in January last year.
And then inflation hit 20 percent.
£45k to £68k – when I went Freelance.
£25k to £39k in just under a year. Internal promotion at work. My ability to Google how to do stuff in Excel has got me a reputation as some sort of IT genius. Serious imposter syndrome, dreading the day they realise Google is available to everyone.
I always had to work through university as I barely got any student loan to live off
In my second year, I got a 20 hour Christmas temp job at about 7.20 an hour, earning around £140 a week. Then once that came to an end, I got another 25 hour warehouse job at around £8.50 an hour, about £200 a week.
Unfortunately that didn’t work out for me and about four months later I started working for my current employer on a part time contract, but whilst it was in the summer holidays, I was working full night shifts. I was told I’d be on £8.50 an hour, so I had it in my head I’d be earning about £200 part time, £300 full time.
What I hadn’t been told about was the £2.10 night shift allowance on top of that, I’d never seen such money! £400+ I was earning most full time shifts. I was just about to start my final year of university and sometimes those wages were meeting the threshold to start paying my student loan back, whilst still there
I was on 18k for 35 hours of work. I learned that my 40-hour colleague was being paid 25k. I asked if I could have 21k so our pay would be the same (proportional to our hours). They put me on 22k!
This is why it’s important to discuss pay with your colleagues. If my team-mate hadn’t said anything about his pay, I would have assumed he was on 18k (scaled to his hours) like me.
I jumped from £50k to £80k. Actually have less cash as it meant my wife could quit work. Worth it though for the kids to always have someone around.
In 1997 I was made redundant whilst earning about 21k with a 10k payout. I was only 24 so decided to go to Oz for 3 months. Spent the whole 10k.
The day I got home I had a phone call from my old boss offering for me to return in a consultant capacity on 52k.
I said yes.
I left.the NHS in the UK at £26k and got a job in Australia at 100aud which was around £50k.
God teaching is depressing. I thought my 3k increase when I moved school was a good deal!
30k to 46k to 60k in the space of 9 months… to be fair I was massively underpaid for the role I was doing and my company knew it for years. It wasn’t until I handed my notice in twice in the space of 9 months that they did something about it.
Completed my apprenticeship on £18k/yr straight into a £60k position just before I turned 21.
Increase of 52p an hour, then took a 31p an hour and 16 hours a month pay cut when I changed jobs. It’s going to be a struggle.
Job hopped this year to go from £42k to £50k. Financial management.
Edit – last year, because apparently I have already forgotten it’s 2023!
Will chuck my £600 extra a year I’m getting as of this month in the mix to balance the scales a bit.
£37k to £110k – exactly the same job (in a different company) but went from being an employee to being a contractor
Pre-May 2021 – £13k/year (part time, 20 hours p/w)
May 2021 – £28.5k (full time secondment)
February 2022 – £32k (another secondment)
April 2022 – £50k (same company, new position)
£37k increase in less than a year. Still can’t believe my luck, I love the job, too.
My jumps on promotion and/or moving jobs have been:
– £32k to £48k
– £48k to £55k
– £55k to £75k
– £75k to £95k
It definitely pays not to be too loyal
I knew my employer at the time needed me so I asked for an increase from £60k to £100k. They rejected it so I handed in my month’s notice. We settled on £95k
your regular reminder that corporate loyalty doesn’t exist and your only shooting your self in the foot waiting around for something to happen. Interview regularly, assess your value regularly.
Clicking on this thread was a mistake.