The lowest and highest paying jobs of 2023 revealed and you don’t always need a degree – is yours on the list?
TO earn a bumper pay packet your best bet is becoming a top boss, official statistics show – but you don’t always need a degree.
The UK’s highest paid full-time earners are chief executives and senior officials, raking in an average salary of £113,577.
Directors working in IT are raking in an average annual salary of £91,810, making it the second bast paid job.
That’s according to annual data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
We spoke to Lisa Ventura, 49, who didn’t go to University and earns £60,000 a year in the tech sector.
Marketing, sales and advertising directors were the third best paid, earning an average of £87,050.
Mum-of-two Rhea Freeman, 39, works in this industry and brings in £60,000 a year.
She went straight from school to work and learned the skills needed for free online.
The results were broadly similar to last year with bosses making up the majority of well paid workers.
Train and tram drivers were found to be among the top 10 highest paying positions.
The Sun previously spoke to mum-of-three Jane Fentaman, 42, who earns £54,000 a year as a tube driver with no degree.
At the other end of the scale, bar staff were the lowest paid getting an average £7,928 a year.
The next worst paid job is care escorts earning a typical £9,397.
In this job carers travel with elderly or disabled people to help them get to appointments.
Elementary services occupations with a salary of £9,707 were the next lowest and include jobs like ticket collectors and hotel guest assistants.
Also among the lower end of the salary spectrum are coffee shop workers, cooks and retail sales assistants.
Many of the best paid jobs often require specialist qualifications.
However, in some roles you might find you can start at the bottom and work your way to the top.
For instance the boss of M&S started as a shelf stacker on £3.80 an hour and never went to university but worked his way up and now earns £800,000 a year.
The National Living Wage is the minimum wage for those over 23, and workers must legally be paid at least £10.42 an hour.
The National Minimum Wage (NMW) is the minimum pay per hour for workers under the age of 23.
Those aged 21-22 must earn at least £10.18 an hour and for 18 to 20-year-olds, the minimum wage is £7.49 an hour.
The chancellor this week announced that the National Living Wage hourly rate will rise to £11.44 next April – and will apply to over-21s, rather than just over-23s.
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