--- title: Jobs and what people earn — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Jobs and what people earn», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Most grown-ups get their money by working: they swap their time and skills for pay, either by the hour or as a yearly salary. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / Jobs and what people earn # Jobs and what people earn Lesson 29 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/0/) — Most grown-ups get their money by working: they swap their time and skills for pay, either by the hour or as a yearly salary. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/1/) — Picture Ella's dad, a bus driver on about £15 an hour: a full week of 40 hours earns 40 × £15 = £600 before tax, and that pays for the family's rent, food and bills. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/2/) — Pay varies hugely: a carer may get about £11 an hour, a plumber may charge £60 an hour, a teacher was reported to earn about £30,000 to £40,000 a year in England, and a top footballer can earn a million or more. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/3/) — A law called the minimum wage sets the least a boss may pay per hour, so nobody is paid next to nothing for a full day's work. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/4/) — Fame jobs look easy on screen, but most YouTubers earn almost nothing, while ordinary jobs like driving, caring and building keep the country running. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/5/) — A salary is yearly pay; an hourly rate is pay for each hour worked; a career is the work someone does over their life. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/6/) — It was reported that teachers in England earn about £30,000 to £40,000 a year, while a top-league footballer can earn £1 million a year or more. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/7/) — Full-time work is about 35 to 40 hours a week; at £15 an hour, 40 hours earns 40 × £15 = £600. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/8/) — A skilled trade is a job needing special training with your hands, like plumbing; at £60 an hour, 10 hours of jobs bring in £600 in a day before costs. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/10/) — The minimum wage is the lowest pay per hour allowed by law; at roughly £12 an hour, as reported, 8 hours earns 8 × £12 = £96. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/11/) — YouTubers earn from ads on their videos; 1,000 views might earn about £1, so most earn little or nothing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/12/) — Some high-paying jobs need long hours: £60,000 a year is £5,000 a month, because £60,000 ÷ 12 = £5,000, but it can mean late evenings at work. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/13/) — Work-life balance means having time both for work and for family. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/14/) — Jobs change over time; coal miners once worked 6 days of 10 hours, which is 60 hours a week, and many mines have since closed. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/15/) — People with more responsibility, like a head teacher, usually earn more; a head teacher might earn about £70,000, twice a teacher's £35,000. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/16/) — Teenagers can have small part-time jobs from a certain age, often 13 or more, with rules; 6 hours at £8 is £48 for a Saturday. - ← previous: [What a bank does with your money and why banks lend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/28-what-a-bank-does-with-your-money/) - next →: [Why some jobs pay more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)