1. Home
  2. Life Events
  3. Working Life
Working life

Financial planning for your working life

Your best earning years. Is the money keeping up?


Most people earn more in their 30s and 40s than at any other time. Few have a plan that reflects it. Your earnings deserve a plan.

Book a call

Top 100Financial Advisors 2025

4.4 Excellent on Trustpilot

Laptop open on desk with glasses, coffee and notepad.
Working life

What is financial planning for your working life?

Where long-term wealth is built or missed.

Whether you're just starting out or hitting your peak earning years, the decisions you make now compound for decades. A pay rise unplanned. A pension never reviewed. Small decisions. Long consequences.

Know where you stand

Most people have a rough idea of what they earn. Few know what they're worth. We start by getting the full picture.

Make your income work

A pay rise is an opportunity. So is a bonus, a promotion, or a new employer. We help you make sure the money does something useful before it disappears.

Build for what's next

First home. School fees. Early retirement. Whatever comes next, the time to plan for it is before you need it.

Your pension isn't looking after itself

Many people auto-enrolled and never looked again. We'll tell you whether what's going in is enough, and whether it's invested in the right place for you.

Protection you probably haven't thought about

If you couldn't work tomorrow, how long would your savings last? Income protection, life cover, critical illness. Your working years are when these matter most.

Man asleep on train.

The moments that matter.

A promotion that doubled the salary and the commute. A bonus in a current account, six months on. A pension from 2015. Never opened. Might be worth something.

What these have in common isn't wealth. It's the sense that things have moved faster than the plan.

Book a call
Man carries bike down steps.

The working years are when the gap opens

Most people think their finances are broadly under control. Most people haven't checked.

Only 9% of UK adults paid for financial advice last year. The other 91% have no plan, or one they built themselves and haven't looked at since.

That gap doesn't announce itself. It shows up at 58, when you find out whether you can stop working. By then, some options are closed.

Woman sits on chair writing in notepad.

Whole of market. No tied products. Advice that starts with you.


We work with people at every stage of their working life. Early career, when the habits matter more than the amounts. Mid-career, when income is growing and decisions are getting more complex. Later career, when stopping work starts to feel real.

We've been doing this in Sussex, Surrey and Kent since 1993. We know the questions before you ask them.

You know what living well looks like.

We'll show you the numbers to get there.

Women running on the beach with surfboard.

Making work optional

Not at 67. Earlier than that, if the plan is right. If you're in your thirties now, earlier retirement is still achievable. The window is open. A plan started today has time to get you there.

The home and the pension

Not one or the other. Most people in their thirties feel like they have to choose between saving for a house and saving for retirement. Usually it's not either-or. We’ll show you how to do both without short-changing either.

Financial independence

The financial independence you haven't named yet. Some want to go part-time at 50. Some want to start a business. Some want time with their parents before it's too late. A plan built around your life beats a generic retirement target.

FAQs

The working life questions we answer every day

From First Call to Clear Plan

Three steps. That's all there is.

Talk to us

Talk to us

One call. No obligation. Tell us where you are and what you want. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.

See the plan

See the plan

A clear financial plan built around your life. Not the same plan we gave the last person. Yours.

Get on with living

Get on with living

We handle the complexity. You get on with the reason you started saving in the first place.

The right pension advice starts with the right conversation.

Tell us a little about yourself. One of our advisors will be in touch within one working day.

30 minutes, by phone or online.

No pitch. No pressure. No paperwork.

A real person, within one working day.

Top 100Financial Advisors 2025

Book a call

Submit the form and pick a time that works for you.

Independent financial planners across the South East

Worthing office

Worthing

Phone: 01903 259200

Guildbourne House, Chatsworth Road,Worthing, West Sussex BN11 1LY
Directions
Horsham office

Horsham

Phone: 01403 242324

Ridgeland House, 15 Carfax, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 1DYL
Directions
Brighton office

Brighton

Phone: 01273 328907

Park Gate, 161-163 Preston Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 6AU
Directions
Chichester office

Godalming

Phone: 01483 427366

Ground Floor, Unit 3, Godalming Business Centre, Woolsack Way, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1XW
Directions
Haywards Heath office

Haywards Heath

Phone: 01444 405160

Commerce House, 21 Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 3TP
Directions
Sevenoaks office

Sevenoaks

Phone: 01959 565187

Dibgate Farm, Chevening Road, Sundridge, Sevenoaks TN14 6AB
Directions
Uckfield office

Uckfield

Phone: 01825 766130

Suite H, Kennet House, Office Village, River Way, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1SL
Directions
Business
Contact us
  • Business

Pembroke

  • About Pembroke
  • How we work
  • Meet the team
  • Careers & vacancies
  • Contact us
  • Portal login
  • Cookie policy

Life stages

  • Unexpected events
  • Planning for retirement
  • Planning a family
  • Working life
  • Passing on wealth
  • Retirement

Personal services

  • Financial planning
  • Mortgage advice
  • Pensions
  • Pensions on Divorce
  • Protection
  • Savings and Investments
  • Tax Planning
  • Long-Term Care Planning
  • Contact us

    • Worthing Office: 01903 259200
    • Horsham Office: 01403 242324
    • Brighton Office: 01273 328907
    • Godalming Office: 01483 427366
    • Haywards Heath Office: 01444 405160
    • Sevenoaks Office: 01959 565187
    • Uckfield Office: 01825 766130

    Live Well Newsletter

    Sign up for the latest industry news & information.

    Connect

    Social media

    © 2026 Pembroke Financial PlanningPembroke and Pembroke Financial Planning are trading names of Pembroke Financial Planning Limited, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). FCA no. 228341. Registered in England, Company no. 02518721. Registered Office, 5th Floor Park Gate, 161-163 Preston Road, Brighton, England, BN1 6AU
    • Privacy Policy
    • Legal disclaimer
    • Cookie policy
    What would you like to discuss? (select all that apply)