Salary help

Hi again
I am very interested to know the average salary of an AAT studier (technician level) & the average salary of an AAT qualified employee.
I look on the back of the AAT magazine and I am shocked to see some of the job vacancies and what they are offering. For example I saw one for £16,000 for AAT technician studier?
You can work in McDonalds for more than that!
Is there anywhere I can look to find out?
Confused of Surrey!
I am very interested to know the average salary of an AAT studier (technician level) & the average salary of an AAT qualified employee.
I look on the back of the AAT magazine and I am shocked to see some of the job vacancies and what they are offering. For example I saw one for £16,000 for AAT technician studier?
You can work in McDonalds for more than that!
Is there anywhere I can look to find out?
Confused of Surrey!
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I am also confused here, but for opposite reasons!
Basically what i get paid atm, is tuppence, and a complete joke?
And thats why i am thinking this is my time to break free, between studying years yes?
But what salary should i look at now im AAT qualified?
I live in a small town in NorthWest, but would commute to manchester?
well I have been at this company since I finished my A-Levels (3 years and 27 days to be precise!)
When I first started and done foundation my salary was £14,000
Onto intermediate £17,500
Onto technician £20,000
These exclude the yearly bonus which is not a lot (£500 ave)
I work in Surrey by the way, 12 miles from London (I know that location comes into it when it comes to salary varainces).
Does that salary seem fair?
Obviously the firm pay for all my college fees, books etc and give me fully paid study leave.
If you work out your college fees etc, then you can easily add another £1K to your salary. And a £6K rise in two years is not to be sniffed at!
I'd say roughly you'd want close to 20k when qualified, going to mid 20's as experience and responsibility of job are both significant.
Then looking at 30k+ with high experience / repsonsibility. And higher when chartered, location etc.
Not saying I'm right but thats the feeling I get.
I first started AAT back in 2003, once i passed my salary didn't go up it stuck at 12.5k, i since have moved about a couple of times and settled in my current job, the deal with my employer is as i go on day release because the college is a fair drive away for two nights a week.... that i give up 18 days holiday spread over the academc year, i pay for my books, reg fees and exam fees, after passing my intermediate my salary went up by the rate of inflation from 17k to 17.5k which in the north midlands is a really good salary to be on at my level and to say i'm bored out of my brain all day everyday wasting my well earned qualifications on sitting buying junk off ebay as i have nothing else to do!! I am looking to move after Technician level and go somewhere i will be more appreciated and understood! I do think it depends on the company as to what you get paid as the average round here is about 15k when ive looked about at the job websites!
Area also plays its part!!!!
I'm on about 17.5k plus bonuses and a very good study package but company policy is a 2% payrise each year regardless of qualifications so the only way to make a bit is to go for a promotion but the position has to become available!
However the study package is too good not to consider when I think about upping sticks.....will wait till after I pass DFS in Dec then I'll be qualified and I can see what awaits me on the open market!!!
If anybody else earns around my salary, I can guess how you feel when you read all the other figures being quoted. To cheer you up though (and me when I feel hard-done by), for the first 18 months of my AAT I earned up to £6,500 - if anybody can get lower than that I will be surprised. (My current salary is due to changing employers; I doubt I'd be on much above £8k even now had I stayed where I was!)
They consitently claim that an AAT qualified in the midlands/west midlands will be on £22/23k+, & yet they advertise jobs at that level for ACCA & CIMA part-qualified & qualified.
Or compare what plumbers, joiners etc can earn. Seems they are more in demand than chartered accountants...
I live in St Albans too, small world
I earn £25k and just have MAC to complete after failing it in the last sitting. I don't get any kind of study support though so is costing me a small fortune to go to college!
Hi, I live in Blackburn in Lancashire. I was working as an accounts assistant for 8 years (without any accounts qualifications). Started studying AAT about 3 years ago so I could find a better job. Did homestudy as was working, am married and with 1 young child at that time (now have 2 kids). Changed jobs last October (after maternity leave). I am now Management Accountant on £25750 p/a. Just passed Technicial level so hoping I will get an increase but now sure how much
To be honest, I think this is shocking after the studying we have done. (Work do pay for college fees but AAT membership and all our books have to be paid for by oursleves). The amount of responsibility we have I think this is a poor pay out, especially as an Accountancy Assistant, you are basically an an accountant for a school!
I do really like my job but compared with other people's comments on salaries, it just makes me think...why are we paid so little!!?
Also at the council, you don't just get promoted with qualifications, you have to wait for a position to become available and apply for it and have interviews along with other candidates from the public. In some case, some people have great qualifications but do not progress as there is no jobs available!
Laura
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Most AP Jobs in London start at about £20k
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Curious how someone doing a job which should earn 30-35k, would be doing AAT? Either none accounts, or borderig on chartered salary?
Hello
I live in the North West and I currently earn £18k as a credit controller. I fell into doing the AAT whilst being a credit controller/accounts assistant. Ideally it's not what I want to do but the money is good for what I do. I want to be able to do book-keeping and drafting accounts etc but my salary drop would drop if I gained a junior position. Money isn't everything and job satisfaction comes high on my list but you have to be realistic over salary too. My other problem is that I want to work park time and there just doesn't seem to be any decent paying part-time positions. The other drawback is the lack of experience! It's a viscious circle.
Also your salary will increase with experience.
There's some info on salaries here:
http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Degree=AAT/Salary
http://salarysurvey.hays.com/salary-survey/18/3/3/127/
ACA training thrown in.
?? I've worked there for 18 months and didn't have intermediate/or any finance qualifications and started on 27K... but did have good finance experience.
From what my boss said after I started I interviewed well and they liked my can do attitude. They were looking for a part qualified candidate, I was on a years contract but got made permenant 6 months ago with a 2K rise.
I don't think it's all down to qualifications, but location, attitude and being at the right place and the right time!
Although reading this thread there does seem to be quite a gap in earnings tho...