So, since the first job that was part of your career, what % payrise are you at now. Eg, if you started on 10k and are now on 15k, that's 50% increase.

Don't count jobs that weren't your career, so no summer work at McDonalds, etc...

I won't select my option until some other people have voted, and voting is anonymous, so don't worry about giving things away.

started work 40 years ago at 16 got £20 a week thats £1040 per year so even at the minimum wage now of £5-05 say 40 hours at £5-05 = £10504 that would take me way past your 200+% :D

yeah, didn't take that into account.

Plus the raw % is meaningless without knowing the time period.
Oh well, more thought before posting next time. Might ask a mod to delete this and then try again....

Mine's 120% in 3.5 years, which I'm quite pleased with.

When I joined the civil service I was paid £6700 and that was 7 years ago, my salary has gone up 300% since then :)

167% in 5... sweet! :clap:
Although I didn't start on that much - first job from uni and all. :) I'm still thankful for every penny of course!

Originally posted by Cyclone

Don't count jobs that weren't your career, so no summer work at McDonalds, etc...


#I was working as a waitress at a cocktail bar...
then I decided to get a career.

It may not be very catchy, but it's a great incentive :smile:

Well, I started at the bottom and have worked my little pink bum off trying to get to the top!

(Not anywhere near there yet)

Some impressive numbers there. Mine's only 78% in 5 years. I'm more than happy though, what's inflation been running at for the last 5 years, around 2%.
2% compounded over 5 years is 10.4%, so that leaves me with 64% real term increase in salary.

I calculate that if I can maintain this rate until I retire, i'll be very rich by the time i'm too old to enjoy it fully :suspect:

When I moved to London my pay trippled, then when I moved back to Sheffield it halved, now it's at a point where I can get to the end of the month and still have £20 in the bank, which is all i really need. Money can't make you happy.

I started work on a YTS in 1986 on about £65/week and am still in the same career, so you can understand why my increase is 756%! :o

This is far too complicated for me to work out. Because I have worked at the same company for approx 13 years, but 6 years ago I got a large increment for giving up my company car.

Well, my hourly rate has risen from
£2.50 an hour in 1985 to £25.00 an hour in 2005

which is about 1000%

however it now means I work 1/10th of the hours for about the same.

I get really depressed about this. Mine's 10% in 4 years. Although I did work in Cambridge when I started out, and salaries are higher there. I then got up to 21% higher about 18 months ago, but took a pay cut when I took this job, mainly because it was my first job on a Sheffield salary, and because I was willing to take a cut for the experience that was promised. Unfortunately the job hasn't turned out to be what was described to me at interview, so now I am just bitter that I took the pay cut!

Actually on Saturday I was stopped int own by a market researcher looking to interview single women aged 25 - 34 who were earning more than £50k - I'd love to see how many she actually managed to find in a day!

In five years, I went from earning 10,000 per year, to 50,000. I gave up my career, for a life away from stress. I now earn a few pounds when oportunities arise, and that's all I need. You can keep your 50,000 - I'm far happier now than I was in England :)

Originally posted by banesmabes
I get really depressed about this. Mine's 10% in 4 years. Although I did work in Cambridge when I started out, and salaries are higher there. I then got up to 21% higher about 18 months ago, but took a pay cut when I took this job, mainly because it was my first job on a Sheffield salary, and because I was willing to take a cut for the experience that was promised. Unfortunately the job hasn't turned out to be what was described to me at interview, so now I am just bitter that I took the pay cut!

Actually on Saturday I was stopped int own by a market researcher looking to interview single women aged 25 - 34 who were earning more than £50k - I'd love to see how many she actually managed to find in a day!

lol, not many i'd have thought. Might have had better look in kings cross.

Money can't make you happy, almost worth a thread on it's own.
Having more of it certainly cheers me up, and not having enough of it can certainly make you unhappy... So whilst it's no guarantee of happiness, it's easier to be happy when you've won the lottery than when your mortgage has just been forclosed on you.

Originally posted by Cyclone
Having more of it certainly cheers me up, and not having enough of it can certainly make you unhappy...

True, but what I don't get is people who earn enough to live on comfortably, but still feel the urge to earn more and more, working 7 days a week etc, why ?

I would rather do one day less work a week than have the equivalent pay rise.

Originally posted by nick2
True, but what I don't get is people who earn enough to live on comfortably, but still feel the urge to earn more and more, working 7 days a week etc, why ?

I would rather do one day less work a week than have the equivalent pay rise.

yeah I don't get that either.

I bought extra days holiday in my flex package, so i actually take home slightly less but get 30 days hols.
I'll loose that by changing to this new job, but instead I get to go home every night.

For the next few weeks though i'm putting in a lot of hours, but that's because the work is needed right now, and the overtime will be paid for, which is how I motivate myself to do it.
I think it'll pay for something fancy for myself at xmas.

Originally posted by Cyclone
lol, not many i'd have thought. Might have had better look in kings cross.

Money can't make you happy, almost worth a thread on it's own.
Having more of it certainly cheers me up, and not having enough of it can certainly make you unhappy... So whilst it's no guarantee of happiness, it's easier to be happy when you've won the lottery than when your mortgage has just been forclosed on you.

This is very true. I'm not particularly money oriented - hence why I was as prepared to take a salary cut as I was. As long as I have enough to live on then I'm happy. I can't stand to see greed with regards to salary. I have a counterpart who earns the same as me, but who lives at home with her parents, doesn't contribute anything towards board, bills or food, and whose husband also owns and runs two businesses. And all she does all day is complain about how she needs to get paid more! When I ask her exactly why she needs more money when she doesn't actually need it for anything she can't answer.

Basic pay increased by 21% over 6 years, which works out at about 3.2% per year. Having extra responsibility now that when I started, my final pay today is 55% more than my basic when I started.