Average UK Salaries

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

This table makes very interesting reading. It lists 422 jobs and the average salary for each one in 2011.
A Train Driver for example earnt on average 42.5k. A vet 33k. A member of the clergy 21.5k. A hairdresser 10k and a school crossing partrol person 3.5k.

Best paid jobs 2011: Tables of official figures for UK salaries | This is Money

 

[tedebear]

How can those at the bottom be above minimum wage? Are they comparing part time salaries with full time? I don't get it?

 

[DumLum]

Biggest suprise for me was Air Traffic Controller.

55K for pushing tin.

 

[Bad Ash]

Biggest suprise for me was Air Traffic Controller.

55K for pushing tin.

I looked into it after uni as I'd heard it was very well paid. Supposed to be a very stressful job.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

How can those at the bottom be above minimum wage? Are they comparing part time salaries with full time? I don't get it?

Not sure but can see that a dinner lady for example would only work one/one and a half hours a day for just 39 weeks of the year.

 

[gullshark]

Biggest suprise for me was Air Traffic Controller.

55K for pushing tin.

It's a very stressful job apparently, one mistake and that's a lot of people dead.

 

[Pevenseagull]

would you want ATC recruiting from the same pool as MacDonalds?

 

[Woodchip]

50 Software professionals £36,634

Pffft, I wish!!!!

 

[Peever]

FUnny how near the top things for the most part remain the same or in creased, where as thje close to the bottom you get the more things decrase from last year....guess someone has to pay for the tops increase!

 

[Albion Dan]

Lawyers £44k? Garbage. Difficult to take that list seriously im afraid. It massively underestimates some job salaries.

 

[Titanic]

Don't let my boss see that.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Biggest suprise for me was Air Traffic Controller.

55K for pushing tin.

People forget when rubbishing others jobs,their is big pressure when you are responsible for other peoples lives.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

People forget when rubbishing others jobs,their is big pressure when you are responsible for other peoples lives.

 

[chimneys]

Lawyers £44k? Garbage. Difficult to take that list seriously im afraid. It massively underestimates some job salaries.

Correct. Vets on £33k. Starting salary maybe!

Chartered surveyors/accountants £35k. Architects £37k.

Absolute tosh!!!!

Ignore! Nothing to see here!!!

 

[Skint Gull]

That list is probably skewed by a number of things, not least many people who run their own business' or are partners in a practice will only earn £6500 as a salary, for example the Architects one is a joke!

 

[jakarta]

Garbage Alert

Health professionals are 12th in the list whereas
Health Professionals are 13th

- the capital letter making the difference presumably

Physicists, geologists and meteorologists are at 31

- because as we all know their jobs are pretty much identical.....

Taxation experts at 103 - not very bloody expert then?

 

[Dandyman]

I'd love to know where their figures come from and what average is used for specific professions/trades.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Lawyers £44k? Garbage. Difficult to take that list seriously im afraid. It massively underestimates some job salaries.

I know lawyers who earn a lot less than that. And I know lawyers who earn several times that.

The same will apply to a lot of the rather vaguely worded "job titles".

 

[bristolseagull]

I know lawyers who earn a lot less than that. And I know lawyers who earn several times that.

The same will apply to a lot of the rather vaguely worded "job titles".

I'm a lawyer and sadly I fall into the former category....

 

[chimneys]

I know lawyers who earn a lot less than that.

Come on! Cant be many unless junior, really poor at their jobs or are practising well away from the south east!!