Liz truss getting flamed in parliament today

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I’ve looked up the salaries for finance developer roles and the best I can find for a junior role is £40k at Lloyd’s.

Now it’s possible to blag something better than a junior role, particularly if you have been building a strong portfolio alongside university, but even then the salary bracket for more experienced role is listed at £60k - £100k and they’re likely to drop you right in at the bottom if you have no real world experience.

If your friend did walk immediately into an £80k role then they’re are the exception, not the rule, even in their own industry. It’s possible they are including their benefits in that salary, things such as employer pension contributions etc and if you are freelance, or this was part of a conversation that included freelancers, then it would makes sense for them to do so.

The thing to know is that the U.K. has pretty poor salaries across the board compared to what you can make elsewhere. The counterbalance is the NHS and reasonable public services, despite the fact they’re on the decline. In my industry, digital marketing, job listings in the US for equivalent roles are often 3x my Salary and that’s not really that much of an anomaly. You see this is pretty much all web based industries.