To ask your yearly household income?

£48k . That's me and grown DD combined. Both work in admin. No dependants except two cats.

Clearly some answers are bullshit, but I don’t understand why you take issue with high earners, some folks earn little, some medium, some a lot, and I’d expect to see a range,

although for the life of me I can’t work out why folks are posting their income just as a random asked.

I hate these threads. Nobody ever comes out of it feeling good.And I don’t believe all the high salaries on here are genuine for a second, or if they are then I feel sorry for the posters who get their kicks swanking about how wealthy they are on mumsnet.

£42600. Nurse. Lone parent (zero maintenance). Two children age 12 and 15.

I'm sorry but 350k yearly income is rich in London. I don't know anyone who makes that much. I live in London. It's ridiculous to say otherwise.

@Maicon that looks interesting! Once I’m back from Mat leave I’ll arrange some experience and see where it takes me ☺️ Thank you once again!

I know very well income of £350k is not rich level in London. Taxes being one reason and also very high costs in areas where you can feel safer. See house prices and services. If you want to send kids to private schools is about £30k per child.

The real divide is between multi millionaires, billionaires and the rest.

90k - both working, husband full time and myself 4 days a week.

we have 1 son who is 3. We have been lucky to not have to pay extortionate child care fees as we have parents who can help while we work. We sent him to nursery 3 days a week from the age of 2 but we now no longer have to pay that as he is entitled to government funded hours.

We are comfortable and quite well off for our area (N.W)

@AnaMRT If you're interested in midwifery and once you get some experience (also ask about free trainings on the regulations around clinical trials and get certified in "good clinical practice") go for companies like this:

https://www.momincubators.com/

One of my friends runs their clinical trial department.

That's Numberwang!

70k per year pensions.

@Maicon amazing! Thanks so much I really appreciate you taking the time. I will look into getting some experience before I apply for any jobs. I know a wonderful clinical research midwife so I’ll speak to her about it and if I can (shadow/help) her on my days off as well. The consultants in my Trust are wonderful so I’ll speak to them too! Thank you once again!

@AnaMRT You'll be fine if you have a degree. All you need now is some experience. If you struggle to find a job that will take you on straight away speak to the medical students or PhD students about their research projects and see if they need some help. Let it be known to the consultants that you'd be willing to help with consenting patients for trials etc. I work with people who have degrees in physics, English, art etc. It honestly doesn't matter. A degree + experience + the right personality is what you need.

Seems a little intrusive ! Surely people will just say random things anyway.

I find these figures misleading. We earn the least of all the parents we know.

@Maicon thanks so much! Will definitely do some research into this. I do have (an unrelated) degree from a good university in London. Was looking into possibly doing a degree apprenticeship in OT or Speech and Language Therapy as that would be rewarding but I also need to consider my big family and hopefully eventually getting on the ladder. Thanks once again for all the information!

Around 90k pretax from both working full time. Side hustle varies (we reinvest a lot) last year we took 9k out. We are the lowest paid amongst our friends and live about as far north as you can get before Scotland. Housing is cheap so we don't struggle and we renovate so don't have a massive mortgage for the house size.

Just do a search and you'll see there's a thread on this subject approximately once a month. I suspect they're also often started by journalists.

What’s his specialty?

That's quite interesting, it says I'm better off than 65% of the population. Doesn't feel like it mind you but I suppose if I didn't have debts and bills and just a mortgage and council tax I'd actually have quite a bit of money.

What do you do @Blindsided12?

If you hate it you can probably seague.

@AnaMRT look for 'clinical research coordinator' 'clinical research assistant'. Both will be entry level positions but most will require some sort of uni degree. Next step up is 'clinical research associate' and the money starts to go up quickly from there. You can work in medical devices or pharma if you want the leap to industry. You need to be able to flexibly work with lots of big ego consultants. Lots and lots of Health Care workers transition to clinical research for the same reasons as you. Good luck!

I’ll look into that! Thank you so much for the tip @Maicon I’m not a nurse but I work with midwives and doctors. I want to progress and do further study but it’s so disheartening as the salaries are so small compared to the cost of living in London. Would love to be able to own a home one day as we’ve been saving for years but the prices are ridiculous in London. Seeing the blood sweat and tears the midwives endure and just the sheer amount of stress compared to the pay is very disheartening. However there is a lot of job satisfaction as it’s lovely to be able to make a difference to people in their time of need. I’m thinking ahead and my body won’t be able to handle the 12 hr shifts for the next 40 years so will definitely looking to clinical research. Thanks once again!

@AnaMRT are you a nurse? If so look into clinical research. Once you transition to industry in a clinical research role the money easily doubles and it's generally flexible and from home.

I’m not sure many people get out of their tax bill. I’ve just paid mine and it was £50k.
It stings for a moment then I give my head a violent wobble. I’d happily pay more tax if the government targeted me. However I know plenty of private schools are taking action against the anticipated VAT on fees. People don’t like paying lots of tax.