THIS job could earn Brits without any qualifications up to £94,000 a year.
Equity Traders are raking in huge amounts of cash despite never going to university – but there’s a catch.
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The role involves the buying and selling of company shares on the equity market
They are usually doing this with their clients’ money to help them reach their financial goals.
The national average salary for a Equity Trader is £94,536 – and you don’t need a degree.
However, you do need to get approval from the FCA and CISI in order to start work.
Brits hoping to switch to this career will need to obtain a CISI Capital Markets certification.
Do do this a university degree is not needed, but you will need to study in order to pass an ethics test.
Equity Traders aren’t the only profession raking in cash without having gone to university.
Scrum masters, for example, are earning upwards of £62,000 a year.
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A scrum master acts as a project manager for IT and tech development.
There are courses you can take to train in being a scrum master, but there’s no strict path into the job.
Commercial pilots, ethical hackers and air traffic controllers are also among the jobs paying around £60,000 a year.
And while a degree isn’t needed for most of these jobs, there may be other requirements.
For example, you don’t need to study at university to become a commercial pilot, but you’ll usually need five GCSEs including English, Science, and Maths.
With the cost of a university education adding up to £57,000 on average, it could pay to pursue one of the high-paying careers that avoid taking on student loan debts and studying costs.
The average wage in the UK in the last tax year was around £33,000.
The national living wage in the UK, which is the minimum for those aged over 23, is rising to £10.42 next month.
