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Hi.
Just wondering how other people feel about salary and what your opinion would be to what mine should be. Details of experience below…..
9 years professional practice experience Working closely with clients to help them understand their accounts and businesses better preparing VAT returns, Management accounts and year end accounts. Supervision experience.
AAT qualified (6 years)
Acca qualified (recently)I have also worked in industry for 2 years.
Please honest opinions of what my salary should be???
Working in Manchester.
HI,
even if I cannot help (since I work in Italy) I suggest you to consider Robert Half’s analysis/statistics in this respect, it can give you an overall idea.. (but I don’t think they distinguish between acca qualified or not).
Regards
MarvinI’m AAT qualified, ACCA PQ, in S/E England. 15 years accounting experience although not all of it counted for much
Last salary £33K – currently unemployed! (last job was for Blockbuster video at their head office and we all know what happened to them..)
If you;re ACCA qualified as well you’d earn more than me on a level playing field – AAT is a respected qualification but it doesn’t pay as well. Working in the Northwest would bring it down though. Perhaps same level? If you were in the south you’d probably get £37K-£45K with recent ACCA qual, more after time….
Thanks for your opinion.
I am currently on 26k after a £750 payrise for becoming qualified. (Yep your probably pulling the same face i did… i thought they were having me on at first nut no).
I expected at least 28k when i become qualified so as you can imagine this was a smack in the face.
I feel undervalued and to me this says we really dont care about you 🙁
I’m on 22k, with Aat full membership, and studying p level acca, have 8 years experience although stuck doing mainly sales ledger so not using the skills I have, feeling unappreciated and don’t get study support only day off for exams!
Think I need to look for a new job, but hard when also studying for exams to take on a new job as well,The problem you;re all going to have right now is just down to the economy – I havent had ‘permanent’ work since January 2012, I’ve bounced along between contracts – mostly cleaning up firms accounting systems, producing year end accounts, doing system re-implementations etc
Mostly paying between 28 and 33k – the first one I got after leaving my perm job in 2012 was paying 30k and that was before I finished my AAT course
Since 2012 the number of jobs available has massively increased and salaries have gone upwards as well but its still a bit sparse, and the main problem I’ve faced – which has effectively prevented me getting decent perm work – is that perm jobs paying over 30k are jumped on by fully-qualified accountants who’ve been made redundant elsewhere
The job market is STRONGLY seasonal – January is dead time – i spent most of it having long lie-ins, playing Spelltower on my tablet PC, polishing the old Volvo and worrying about the December exam results. February is improving fast, My experience from 2012 and 2013 is that the best time to be looking for work is between March & October. The very peak is probably mid June.
So hang in there for now – and consider if you have any friends in the south you can flat-share with, louibee….
You may find when you resign that they make you an offer you cant refuse – but this isnt the time of year to try that trick unless you already have a better offer.
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are you guys kidding me – 8 years experience on 22k?! is that 8 years of ‘relevant’ experience or does it include stuff thats not really valuable?
i have 14 months of ‘relevant’ experience for ACCA, and coming up to 3 years total experience. just become ACCA affiliate in february on 48k in london.
Ah yes, but you are in London so you can expect more money. I have 5 years experience but only in payables 🙁 I am doing my ‘F’ papers and on 22k. I also get 1 day off per week for study leave and all courses/revision paid for. This alone makes it worthwhile staying. They also fully covered my AAT tuition. I live in the Midlands
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22k for (essentially) a training contract where you get time off and stuff paid for makes sense. but 26k for fully qualified and 9 years experience is literal madness. i used to work in the midlands in a non-relevant role for 20k which sounds about fair
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