650,000 part-timers earn £40,000

By Press Association , Jun 14, 2012
Filed under: Career

Hundreds of thousands of part-time workers are in jobs paying at least £40,000, dispelling the belief that senior posts are only available to full-timers, according to a report.

A study by Timewise, a jobsite dedicated to part-time jobs, showed that 650,000 people - one in 10 part-timers - were on a salary of £40,000 or more.

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Research among 2,000 people found that many worked part-time because they had enough money to reduce their hours, or had to look after children.

Timewise founder Karen Mattison said: "Behind the doors of many British businesses are thousands of senior professionals, working at the top of their game, on a part-time basis, because they want to.

"People say part-time and senior can't be done, but thanks to employers who get the business benefits of hiring talented people on a part-time basis, there are now part-time finance directors, heads of communications, even part-time chief executives out there."

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valhollylee

Someone ought to tell Morrisons Supermarkets about this as they don't belive that you can be a manager and work part-time. My daughter was a department manager for them before she had her son last year on a salary of approx. £22,000 pa. However because of childcare difficulties she couldn't work on Fridays when she went back to work, though she had every other day covered. This wasn't good enough for them and they told her that if she couldn't do Fridays then she would have to lose her position. She had to start again at the bottom and now works part-time for them. It seems short-sighted to me that they have lost her skills when she could have kept her position as a job-sharer. She's not on her own, she knows several women that have had to do this but her union USDAW are not interested.

July 11 2012 at 2:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hoodieclan

The problem is "What is part time" according to the government anything over 24 hours a week is classed as full time. My wife works partime 27 hours a week but Workks and Pension class her as full time so when I tried to clain some benefit after working 30years and paying into the system £500, 000 + in tax and national insurance I am enttitled to zero .
So I ask the question what an empolyer thinks is partime is not what the goernment agrees with, very crafty I say!

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anslowcj

Less than or equal to half full-time hours is part-time I guess. Working equivalent of 4 days a week can't really count as part-time. Job seekers are allowed to work part-time up to 16 hours a week, I'd imagine that is the cut-off.

June 14 2012 at 7:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply