Try telling your wife it's not about the money, Templar, and then when she's stopped shouting at you try going to your bank manager and apply for a mortgage on a property "down-south" with a 15K salary coming in...you would probably still hear him laughing as you sat back down at your desk the following Monday.
Ops donkeys have always been over-worked and under paid. I was on 15K, 15 years ago in Gatwick and had to take a part-time job driving a taxi just to survive and I didn't even have kids to support at that point in my life.
Do what I did and get out while you still can. I'm now a doorman in a pub/nightclub and getting more job satisfaction now than I did from 19 years in Ops and Dispatch and a damn sight less stress...I even get to hit people now which I never could before though I wanted to on many an occasion.
Whooaahh