The next result from our survey highlighted the relationship between the respondents and pensions. 59 per cent said they did not have a personal pension. The diagram below shows this visually:

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One of our most interesting results from our personal finance survey is about income insurance. Of the 37 respondents, 94.4 per cent said they do not have income insurance. The difference between those who do and those who don’t is shown in the image below:

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The second result from our survey about finance for PRs has revealed that 46 per cent of PRs think the industry pays well. As you can see from the diagram below, this was the majority. We had 37 responses from PRs via Twitter, who completed the questionnaire using Surveymonkey.

16.2 per cent said they did not think PR was a well paid profession. 43 per cent chose the ‘Other’ option. This allowed them to write down a few words to explain their answer to the question.

Results included PRs saying:

At first it is quite low, but this rises very quickly, making it a very well paid profession.

Better than private sector, depends on level too, less financial benefits such as pensions etc seem typical

You have to work hard, but if you play it right you can make good money.

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