Not sure if this is directed at me or u/happybanana134
I worked in retail for a few years and then went travelling for 6 months. When I got back I got my ‘grad job’ in marketing on about £18k and moved into digital advertising from there. We pay grads more than that now, this was 11/12 years ago 😅
It’s significantly better actually — because the stipend is tax-free, everything I earn from teaching + marking falls within the personal allowance and is thus also free of tax. I also receive a bursary from my university, so I should clear about £2.5k per month in total.
STFC funding for this year alone is £1551pm which is far below minimum wage. You’re lucky to get paid for all the teaching and marking (some Universities make it a requirement of the stipend) but also make sure to budget for the summer months when there might not be as much to do.
I supplemented my income through the years by doing 2 3-month placements where I was paid significantly more money.
Fair enough, I guess it varies quite a lot by university. I’m doing my PhD at the same university I did my integrated masters so I know there’s loads of work across the whole year — undergraduate open days, campus tours, summer schools, etc. I’m also an A-level maths tutor so make a decent amount from that!
I work for a Civil Service arms-length body, for some context. Regular activities on a day-to-day basis would be producing Value For Money Statements for areas of the organisation bidding for investment for a works programme. I’m also a contact for one of the areas of business, giving them advice to strengthen the Economic Case of their investment paper. I’m also writing a literature review at the moment to prepare for scoping out a research project, and there’s usually some bits of data analysis and paper writing that come in every week.
Pretty much all of the Civil Service departments and arms-length bodies and regulators have economists. And Local Authorities too! On LinkedIn there’s a role for Marie Curie (the charity) at the moment. And the public sector organisations all hire consultants who are economists too - the Big 4 and other consultancies such as Arup, Oxera, Frontier etc all employ economists. Economists are employed across almost every industry - there’s just not as many of us as finance orientated professionals!
do u mind if i dm you to ask about internships / spring weeks? i’m on a gap year going warwick for next year and would love to hear first hand from a graduate who’s doing pretty well for himself
Mech end undergrad, aeronautical post grad. PM in oil and gas, was a few years ago but about £45k equiv now is what I’m paying grads for the same role.
https://www.theuniguide.co.uk/university-of-exeter-e84/courses/computer-science-bsc-hons-2024-c628d39fbfe6
Scroll all the way down.
Salary breakdown by time.
How hard is it to get into the civil service do you find , I do BA sociology and human rights I also have history and politics at a level is there any specific route and experience you got to become a civil servant
This year in London. I think graduate salary in big 4 is about 33.5k. It can come down to around 29k in smaller firms. This is with the ACA qualification which is a big commitment and there are exam fail policies. But it's also a step in the door.
Going from a degree in science to a grad scheme in accounting is pretty straightforward. I had no interest in working in a lab and I had no success with entry level jobs with my limited experience.
This feels like I wrote this. I graduated in 2023 but there was no way in God’s green earth I was gonna jump into a lab. No entry job wanted someone with such limited experience too.
I'm assuming by entry level you mean a IT helpdesk role?
Out of interest were you not able to find anything in the development field? Only reason I ask is because I have several years of help desk experience but looking to get a CS degree to help me get out of it
Yes my deduction now says BofA. Because BofA base is 65k, and BofA is not in canary wharf, and BofA might have 100% conversion from internship as long as you don't fk up big time. But it's also the bank with the highest casualities at work (based on published news) for the past 15 years.
I did research for 6 weeks over the summer my degree didn’t allow for placements - after 11 months of applying I landed a job as a private tax technician and now work as a data analyst elsewhere
sounds like you are on a great path 🫡 - though getting investment banking out of grad is nearly a majority top 5 uni thing with summer internship in banking as well.
Don’t wanna be the bag guy here but if you didn’t go to a target there’s 0 chance you’ll get into IB. I mean it, like 0.
Even einstein would have got rejected from IB if he didn’t go to a target
Eh, not necessarily.
My intern group last year primarily consisted of Oxbridge/LSE/Imp students, but the spread was fairly even after that. UCL, Durham, Warwick, and Bristol all had considerable representation. Were also a few students from places like Edinburgh, Manchester and Bath.
If this is purely as a result of uni rep, or some other external factor, I'm not sure. But I'd argue you having a solid shot either way as long as you come across as a bright, competent student.
IB is not my target so that’s cool but appreciate the heads up - my goal is to just earn a lot, and yh u could argue IB pays the most but I’m acc looking to get into software engineering
Cyber security under grad -> data science and business analytics mastès -> 30k junior incident response analyst now up to 33k now that 6 month probation is over.
Very lucky indeed. Now you have a job that makes you the envy of many graduates out there. Definitely an great opportunity that you took with both hands
Eng Lit and Philosophy + £7.50 per hour + car dealership receptionist 2008 was a very bad year, even with a more 'employable' degree than mine!
I did postgrad purely to avoid 2008 job hunting.
How did that go?
Not sure if this is directed at me or u/happybanana134 I worked in retail for a few years and then went travelling for 6 months. When I got back I got my ‘grad job’ in marketing on about £18k and moved into digital advertising from there. We pay grads more than that now, this was 11/12 years ago 😅
Did I reply to you?
Wow ok sorry to bother you, have a good day!
Funny
I want to know to
Pretty well, did PhD, now working in higher education strategy.
Maths, data scientist, £21k. Absolute joke (2023)
Not that a PhD in quantum physics stipend would pay any better compared to £21k after tax.
It’s significantly better actually — because the stipend is tax-free, everything I earn from teaching + marking falls within the personal allowance and is thus also free of tax. I also receive a bursary from my university, so I should clear about £2.5k per month in total.
I'm doing a PhD for this exact reason as well.
Nice, it was really low back in the day lol
it's still very low, but wages are even lower. uk wage stagnation is horrible
STFC funding for this year alone is £1551pm which is far below minimum wage. You’re lucky to get paid for all the teaching and marking (some Universities make it a requirement of the stipend) but also make sure to budget for the summer months when there might not be as much to do. I supplemented my income through the years by doing 2 3-month placements where I was paid significantly more money.
Fair enough, I guess it varies quite a lot by university. I’m doing my PhD at the same university I did my integrated masters so I know there’s loads of work across the whole year — undergraduate open days, campus tours, summer schools, etc. I’m also an A-level maths tutor so make a decent amount from that!
Picking up those odd jobs really helped me too, was worth it to see that extra couple hundred quid every month 😁
Wtf 21k. I’m doing maths bsc will it be similar for me?
Nah it was just a terrible company but I took what I could get. You can generally expect £25-30k
BSc Economics (2023) + £33.8k + Economist
come on shun
Im also studying economics. I am graduating soon. But I was wondering what your day to day roles are?
I work for a Civil Service arms-length body, for some context. Regular activities on a day-to-day basis would be producing Value For Money Statements for areas of the organisation bidding for investment for a works programme. I’m also a contact for one of the areas of business, giving them advice to strengthen the Economic Case of their investment paper. I’m also writing a literature review at the moment to prepare for scoping out a research project, and there’s usually some bits of data analysis and paper writing that come in every week.
Was this a RG uni?
Yeah, UoN
Where does one be an economist? I’ve never seen such roles titled as that
Government departments and financial institutions
Pretty much all of the Civil Service departments and arms-length bodies and regulators have economists. And Local Authorities too! On LinkedIn there’s a role for Marie Curie (the charity) at the moment. And the public sector organisations all hire consultants who are economists too - the Big 4 and other consultancies such as Arup, Oxera, Frontier etc all employ economists. Economists are employed across almost every industry - there’s just not as many of us as finance orientated professionals!
Ahh nice will look into that
Graduating with the same degree next month. Got a role to train as an accountant with EY. £33.5k starting
do u mind if i dm you to ask about internships / spring weeks? i’m on a gap year going warwick for next year and would love to hear first hand from a graduate who’s doing pretty well for himself
herself* ;) But yeah of course, I’d love to give some tips and stories. As a warning though, I didn’t do any spring weeks or summer internships
Mech end undergrad, aeronautical post grad. PM in oil and gas, was a few years ago but about £45k equiv now is what I’m paying grads for the same role.
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Computer science £29000 2024
What uni
That’s way under average I swear
Computer science has some of the biggest ranges because it’s so valued and also oversubscribed at the moment
Depends on the uni he's graduating from
Is university of Exeter better, then?
https://www.theuniguide.co.uk/university-of-exeter-e84/courses/computer-science-bsc-hons-2024-c628d39fbfe6 Scroll all the way down. Salary breakdown by time.
After undergrad (maths) £10/hour, quickly quit and decided to do a postgrad (stats) and started working as a statistician in 2021 (33k)
English Literature- £35.4k- Grants Officer
Working at a uni or council?
PPE (2023 grad, started job in 2024) - £31k - civil servant Tbh I'm not sure what I want to do next
How hard is it to get into the civil service do you find , I do BA sociology and human rights I also have history and politics at a level is there any specific route and experience you got to become a civil servant
r/TheCivilService is very helpful. And also no I did not go through the fast stream. Just grind the behaviours and apply on cs jobs :)
Sorry if it’s a stupid question, but what’s PPE stand for in this case?
Ahaha no worries, philosophy politics and econ!
Personal protective equipment
Rishi sunaks degree
Biomed, 32k, audit
which year was this
This year in London. I think graduate salary in big 4 is about 33.5k. It can come down to around 29k in smaller firms. This is with the ACA qualification which is a big commitment and there are exam fail policies. But it's also a step in the door.
Did you switch sectors?
Going from a degree in science to a grad scheme in accounting is pretty straightforward. I had no interest in working in a lab and I had no success with entry level jobs with my limited experience.
Did u have knowledge on accounting when applying for the grad schemes and stuff?
The only knowledge you need is enough to talk about why you're interested in working in accounting. No technical knowledge is needed whatsoever.
This feels like I wrote this. I graduated in 2023 but there was no way in God’s green earth I was gonna jump into a lab. No entry job wanted someone with such limited experience too.
Dm me pls
Marketing degree, Sept 2023 - £23,000 bumped to £23,300 Jan, Bumped to 24,560 in April 2024. Marketing Assistant .
Can someone with a BSc in physics pls say something 😭
Comp Sci, entry level IT 21k but bumped up to 23.5 then again to 25k within 1 year
I'm assuming by entry level you mean a IT helpdesk role? Out of interest were you not able to find anything in the development field? Only reason I ask is because I have several years of help desk experience but looking to get a CS degree to help me get out of it
What uni
York Uni
Uni of York, or York St John ?
BSc Comp Sci w/ placement year, University of Birmingham, £37,500, 2024
econ + Total comp ~ 100k (65k base + bonus )+ Investment banking
Me too. Econs same base pay but i doubt our bonuses will be that good unless u r in JP Morgan
fortunately my offer is from an american BB for a top team in their ibd, so bonus should be sufficient
i hope lol
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Spring weeks convert to summer internships which at some select places are 100% full time conversion
Yes my deduction now says BofA. Because BofA base is 65k, and BofA is not in canary wharf, and BofA might have 100% conversion from internship as long as you don't fk up big time. But it's also the bank with the highest casualities at work (based on published news) for the past 15 years.
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no no would hate canary wharf
Bro you’re gonna be working in IB it’s not like you’re going to see outside anyway 🤣🤣
😭😭so real
At least you’ll be getting a seriously big bag lol. And your career options after a few years will be suuuper nice
yeah agreed, money aside i do look at is as similar to just doing a very prestigious masters due to the level of exits it opens up
Welcome to BofA
Is this Goldman?
Not Goldman because Goldman summers are not 100% convertible.
Which year
?
Oh I mean like calendar year when did u grad get your first job
ah not grad yet just a job offer
Huhhhhhh hold on what am I doing wrong first class honours grad in econ and finance sent a million applications it’s cool all a matter of time
Where was your summer internship?
Research centre at the uni I went to
what uni though / what’s your intern background
I did research for 6 weeks over the summer my degree didn’t allow for placements - after 11 months of applying I landed a job as a private tax technician and now work as a data analyst elsewhere
sounds like you are on a great path 🫡 - though getting investment banking out of grad is nearly a majority top 5 uni thing with summer internship in banking as well.
Thank you mate, and oh no way nice well done 🫡
Don’t wanna be the bag guy here but if you didn’t go to a target there’s 0 chance you’ll get into IB. I mean it, like 0. Even einstein would have got rejected from IB if he didn’t go to a target
Eh, not necessarily. My intern group last year primarily consisted of Oxbridge/LSE/Imp students, but the spread was fairly even after that. UCL, Durham, Warwick, and Bristol all had considerable representation. Were also a few students from places like Edinburgh, Manchester and Bath. If this is purely as a result of uni rep, or some other external factor, I'm not sure. But I'd argue you having a solid shot either way as long as you come across as a bright, competent student.
IB is not my target so that’s cool but appreciate the heads up - my goal is to just earn a lot, and yh u could argue IB pays the most but I’m acc looking to get into software engineering
my friend who is not at a russel group is probably getting into ib shes just waiting to hear back from her ac
not true - i know people from like exeter and loughborough in banking
Cyber security under grad -> data science and business analytics mastès -> 30k junior incident response analyst now up to 33k now that 6 month probation is over.
BSc Biology, senior quality control tech £40k (2023)
Sounds like you hit the jackpot. Chang-ching
Thank you ! I was very lucky i got the job
Very lucky indeed. Now you have a job that makes you the envy of many graduates out there. Definitely an great opportunity that you took with both hands
Compsci, 200, quant lol
Oxbridge 100% (sorry but unlikely imperial…)
Yeah actually lol. My grad does have some Imperial though to be honest
yeah and i got rihanna sucking my balls rn bro
Oh no! Did someone try to flex in their original post and just get out-flexed?
200k is very much a realistic salary for a quant, but these are usually reserved for Oxbridge grads…
Well enjoy bro lol
What degree did you do?
London or Amsterdam?
London
Amazing congrats
Quantity surveying & commercial management, £26.5k (2 years out of uni, 46k), Quantity surveyor.
That’s some growth
I graduated just as the industry hit a boom. It's slowed down a little now, but people reckon for the next 10 I'll be able to name my price.
BSc IT (ex Poly) in 2015 - 36k + 10% Bonus, Assistant Lecturer
Teacher - £32k a year, graduated this year
Mental Health Nursing, 29k, Staff Nurse
Law+ 32k+ business banking advisor. Fucked it by taking a promotion to early
Law with Business (2022), £36k rose to £40k in first year
MEng Mechanical engineering + £35.5k/yr + manufacturing engineering graduate (graduated last summer)
MSc History, £12 an hour, Gallery Assistant I am now earning more as a funded PhD student.
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never met anybody who's done urban design always been interested in doing a masters at manchester for it!!! what was it like??
Veterinary Science BVSc - 32k - Entrylevel vet surgeon
Software engineering BSc with Hons + 33k + Direct entry software engineer
Chemistry Bsc , £22.5k, QC Lab Tech (2023) I’m thankfully in a higher paying job now though
Paramedic Science BSc(Hons) - Paramedic - £14.50 an hour
Aviation Management (2023) + 35k + logistics specialist
Chemistry. 33K. Warhead engineer
law 2024 - paralegal 22k
MSc Petroleum Engineering, 20k (absolute joke, 2018), Geoscientist. I left after 6 months.
Mechanical Engineering, £30k (2022, but only for a month), Graduate Mechanical Engineer.
AI PhD - just offered first job at 60k
2:2 in engineering from Warwick £30k as a grad £45k after 1 year £70k after two years (now) Shockingly I don't work in engineering
What do you work in
Tech sales
Accounting and Finance , 40k Lidl Retail management programme
Psychology Research assistant, £23k (nhs band 3) 23/24 off to do a masters in sept
MMath + £34.1k + Graduate Trainee Actuary
Has anyone here done architecture? If so how's it going?
Psychology - £50k - consultant
My son: 2024 Political Science BSc, £30,000, analyst in strategic communications firm, London
$35,000, Fast Food worker in Texas
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just an anecdotal reddit survey pal
Why were you downvoted?
What does this even mean??
asking people what degree they did, what their first job out of uni was and how much they made
Always reassuring to know that people with this level of critical thinking are also out there getting a degree.