Thanks MissRibena,
I am in Galway, where unfortunately your buck does not go far....It certainly does sound like our jobs are similar, I also update our website from time to time, and deal with all the contracts etc. I also do financial forecasting, cashflow, budgets etc. to the management team. There is only approx 20 people working in the company. Also, I am more or less my own boss, as in, I am the only person doing the administration, it is a software company. I am the very same as you, I have no desire to gain an accounting qualification either as I'd rather not be 'stuck' doing accounts forever. I much prefer the other areas of work - payroll, hr side of things, website stuff.
So two things come to mind from this:
1. perhaps the fact that I do not have a business degree is what is keeping my salary down?
2. It is not a multinational - I have it in my head that these may pay more??
The last thing is that when I look at jobs advertised for 'accounts assistant' or 'accounts administrator', the salary stated is almost always less than 25k.....should I be looking more at PA roles, or even senior PA roles do you think?
I think 40k is lucky (fair play to you!), but it is very encouraging to know that there are at least some people out there on that money. At the moment, I feel like I am never going to get more than 30k no matter what I do in administration.
Can I ask you how long you are in your current job, and how much experience you had before starting? Also, what was the job advertised as?
thanks so much, sorry for hijacking this topic, just felt I had to warn the original poster!