Which graduates are most likely to make 50k+ in their careers?

As someone from the midlands and living in London... 700k is chump change here, but my god is it worth being in the centre of the universe rather than some village in butt-**** nowhere.

(Also 700k gets you a decent 5 bed in warwickshire, you need 1m+ to get a mansion around leamington/warwick and closer to 1.5m in stratford. not sure about the rest of the midlands, but I guess for 700k you'd get a whole building in a ****hole like coventry - this is all subjective as to what you think a mansion is obviously...)

As someone from the midlands and living in London... 700k is chump change here, but my god is it worth being in the centre of the universe rather than some village in butt-**** nowhere.

(Also 700k gets you a decent 5 bed in warwickshire, you need 1m+ to get a mansion around leamington/warwick and closer to 1.5m in stratford. not sure about the rest of the midlands, but I guess for 700k you'd get a whole building in a ****hole like coventry - this is all subjective as to what you think a mansion is obviously...)

As a graduate hiring manager now earning over 50k, I can tell you that ultimately depends more on the uni than the degree subject. A first from an old poly in any subject is never going to be worth as much as even a 2:2 from a Red brick/RG uni. Don't even try to kid yourselves.

Yes it helps if you don't try & reply to these threads when you are working and end up taking off the 10k twice! My comparison should have been somebody with 40k (going to 30k taxable) v 100k.
One should also remember that almost everybody earning over 50k will start with a student loan paying off at 9% whereas the majority of non graduates earn less than 40k.

To be strictly honest I think you can get a negative tax rate if you have enough children but most don't.

Having said that I don't agree with the concept that its not worth working hard and aiming for a well paid job. Most well paid jobs are intellectually interesting; you have to slog when you are young but when you are older you have more control and the freedom to do what you want whether buying your house or hobbies or holiday.

They'll be around 35 years old at least by the time they're a consultant(FYI pay scale for NHS consultants is 75-100k and private work is limited by the amount of NHS work they do). A dentist could be 24 earning 60k, after 2 years they can do an implantology course which is a part time 3 year degree, after that they can pretty much do 100% private work 100K+ is easily attainable at this point without even owning your own practice.
When you factor all things together (aka training time, working hours etc) dentistry is a lot more lucrative than medicine.

You make it sound like its so easy for a dentist to be earning 100k. If becoming a private dentist was as easy as u say it was, all the dentists in the country would be doing 100% private work. The demand for private dentistry in the UK is incredibly small. Every post which opens up for a dentist to work in a private practise is met with fierce competition with the 60 other dentists in the area who want to go private. This is why the bulk of dentists do NHS work and supplement with private. Dentists aren't stupid to have the opportunity of going 100% private and yet choose to labour away in the NHS for less. You have to be VERY good to be able to convince private practises to let you join them which means having a proven track record over many years (prob age 37-45)

The average income for dentist working 40 hours a week from NHS and private work is around 65k (full report source: http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB11473)
This is what MOST dentists will be earning and if there was worthwhile ways to be earning 100k then i assure you, every dentist would be doing it to earn the much. Going 100% private is possible, but dont expect to waltz ur way into fitting veneers for celebrities without atleast 18-20 years under ur belt

And ur comment on doctors is also incomplete. GPs earn very similar if not more than many dentists. I know one GP who recently completed his training who locums 9-5 mon-friday in london and took home £130k last year (before tax) and he takes over a month off in holidays!

Haha. No one mentioned the obvious: Politicians.

Investment Banker/Engineer/Doctor= Slog for hours on end to make 50k a year

Politicians= Pretend to do something on TV for 10 mins to make 66k a year.(74k a year after april 2015)

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

Where else can you get paid to screw up the lives of others??

Haha. No one mentioned the obvious: Politicians.

Investment Banker/Engineer/Doctor= Slog for hours on end to make 50k a year

Politicians= Pretend to do something on TV for 10 mins to make 66k a year.(74k a year after april 2015)

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

Where else can you get paid to screw up the lives of others??

There's a difference between being a politician and being an MP.. The latter is much harder to become. Also if you're implying that studying politics is the best way to break 50k you couldn't be more wrong


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For the sake of argument, I'm talking about anyone who holds political appointments(MP,MEP,MSP etc).

Also studying a degree in politics≠ being a politician(most politicians study things unrelated to politics in uni).

Yeah but those are such hard positions to get into, you shouldve come to this thread and said if you want to make over 50k then just become the ceo of a ftse 100 company.

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You're seriously comparing the two?
First of all, CEO is a title, not a job. A politician does a specific job('serve' the constituency).
I'm pretty sure being CEO of an FTSE 100 company is harder. To become a person with a political appointment, you need to be able to sweet talk. If you have the gift of the gab, I'm sure becoming an MP wouldn't be anywhere near as hard as being a CEO of an FTSE 100 company.

You're seriously comparing the two?
First of all, CEO is a title, not a job. A politician does a specific job('serve' the constituency).
I'm pretty sure being CEO of an FTSE 100 company is harder. To become a person with a political appointment, you need to be able to sweet talk. If you have the gift of the gab, I'm sure becoming an MP wouldn't be anywhere near as hard as being a CEO of an FTSE 100 company.

CEO is a pretty specific job...

Similarly an MP is a title.

I got a 2:2 in film and tv studies from Brunel.

What do you think I can earn realistically, seeing as I have had no work experience yet since graduating 4 years ago?

I was ridiculing how ridiculous I found your suggestion to become an MP because you made it sound so easy

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Both statements are technically true.
MP is a title(or MEP), just like 'Sir' or 'Baron'.

Politicians(anyone holding political office, not just MPs) speak on behalf of the people. Their purpose is to try and fulfill the interests of the public.

All CEOs share one thing in common, they are the leaders of the companies(which is specific in a sense). Put it this way, CEOs of financial firms do things that CEOs of engineering firms may not.