Degrees that lead to jobs that pay starting salaries of 35k+

levels.fyi has a few examples for the UK.

but it's easy enough to extrapolate if you use a few rough approximations. generally the offers (for e3, e4 and e5) I've seen have been governed by a ~25-30% reduction in equivalent cost of labour vs the US with the current exchange rate.

so an e6 making an expected ~$450-550k in the US would translate to: 450*.7-.75*~.7 to 550*.7-.75*~.7 -> £220 to £290k

re: difficulty.. that is the same with literally every path a high potential kid wants to go down. being at the top of a field or attempting to go into a very competitive field (med/dent) is hard.

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Better off just looking into other ways to make money in your free time, mate. Matched betting, Forex or Crypto trading, stock marketing, stuff like that. It can prove to be very lucrative if you've got good cashflow to start up with - a lot of folks end up cutting their work hours or even quitting work completely if they get good at one of these and make a lot of cash from them. I only work 16 hours a week myself and the rest of my money I make up from dabbling in these sorts of things and I'm doing pretty well for myself.

The salaries on this website seem so much higher than anything i've seen before. None of them are anything like what i'm seeing on glassdoor for example. Any idea why?

I have been at events where experts in graduate employment statistics have explained these roles to be less than 0.01% of grads go into these type of earnings.

They don't even make up 3-5% of "graduate" opportunities and plenty of graduates dont even get into graduate level employment. Add in the unemployment rates too....

or you could be the best zoologist making $200k+ at a top us university..

forget money, figure out where you want to fit in the economy. pointless looking at finance if it's not something that interests you, ditto any other job.

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What’re you doing at the moment?

Programming.

From my research banks like JP and GS give starting salaries of 45k where you can hope to make 10k in bonuses. Making 50k in London is like making 35k where I live. When I consider rent, travel, tax I'll have 1k I can save a month. I can save more now and have a better lifestyle. My hours atm are 60-80 hour weeks with £8-12 an hour. Banking hours are even crazier. Say I do 100 hour weeks for 55k a year that's only £10.58 an hour. Ha. Barely makes London's living wage.

Downsides of my job are that no scale for progression and it might not be sustainable years down the line.

not to poo poo the idea completely but I think you should also consider the raft of benefits and security that come with a permanent contract of employment

You should do a degree because you're interested in the subject, not because you want to make some money in the future. Employers will only be offering high salaries to those passionate for their subject of which they have a degree in anyway. It's quite toxic how you value something only by the money it generates.

If you join the Army as an Officer, starting pay during training is around £30k and then increases to £40k+ when you reach Captain, which is about 3-4 years into your career.

Majors make around £52k. May seem like a long time but get to the higher ranks and you'll be easily making £100k+

Which OP already has. I already have this also, my wages working 16 hours a week covers my living costs. Making a lot of money often inevitably comes with some degree of instability, just depends on whether you're willing and in the position to take a risk in going with investing and trading as a full-time job.

I saved £200-£300 a month when only earning £17.5k, if you're only managing to save £1k a month from a £35k salary then you are doing something seriously wrong.