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To ask your yearly household income?

209 replies

Sfuandtired · 12/01/2024 21:20

Feel free to say I am being unreasonable and tell me to mind my own business, it’s a genuine question though, I’m interested in finding out if the wealth divide really is as big as it’s portrayed in the media and/or if I’m losing touch with reality.
I’ll start, ours is 60k after tax, 2 working adults and 2 children and I’d consider us to be in the average range. TIA

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Crispedia · 12/01/2024 22:55

The wealth divide is between the super rich and the rest of us.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 12/01/2024 22:52

WithACatLikeTread · 12/01/2024 22:49

I read that as satire.

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If it was, then I apologise.

I'm fine with people earning lots, it's tax dodgers I take issue with.

Daffodilapidated · 12/01/2024 22:51

About £120k a year - one employed adult and one self employed. I also recieved £190k over a couple of years from a couple of private sources. Would not get this every year.

MrsTwatInAHat · 12/01/2024 22:51

Single parent and earn about 40K gross so 30 after tax, plus maintenance and child benefit that add a few K a year. I'm lucky to have a fairly manageable mortgage, but the cost of living increases have made things much tighter.

I do think there's a massive divide. Of course its a range not just two ends of a scale, but loads of jobs pay minimum wage and that means about £20K a year. While lots earn more than 10x that and that's not even the proper rolling in it rich. It's not good for social cohesion, health, mental health or education.

WithACatLikeTread · 12/01/2024 22:49

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 12/01/2024 22:47

Meanwhile, hospital waiting lists grow, schools are full of asbestos and RAAC, and people are going hungry.

Are you proud of yourselves?

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I read that as satire.

Thislife1 · 12/01/2024 22:49

350k gross in London joint incomes. Both work full time, in our 40s, two children with another on way. Both work full time, WFH 2-3 days a week.

StampOnTheGround · 12/01/2024 22:49

About 75k (2 adults - DH full time and I work 3 days, and 1 toddler), in the midlands.

Greycatclub · 12/01/2024 22:48

Around £180k (both earn about the same). South East (Hampshire)

C8H10N4O2 · 12/01/2024 22:48

it’s a genuine question though, I’m interested in finding out if the wealth divide really is as big as it’s portrayed in the media

Couple of options if its a genuine question:

a) look at the granular stats freely available from the ONS, collected from a range of verified sources

b) as self selected set of anonymous posters on the internet who may or may not be inventing answers

Gosh its a stumper, which would anyone use to get genuine answers?

catelynjane · 12/01/2024 22:48

About 60k. We're both self-employed though so it varies each year.

No DC and we live in the north west.

BurbageBrook · 12/01/2024 22:47

80k before tax, I earn slightly over 40k and DH earns slightly below.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 12/01/2024 22:47

Flandango · 12/01/2024 22:39

Err, not 100% sure. About £10-15m. Don't pay much tax as we channel it through the Cayman Islands

Meanwhile, hospital waiting lists grow, schools are full of asbestos and RAAC, and people are going hungry.

Are you proud of yourselves?

WinterMarchesOn · 12/01/2024 22:46

Alwayswonderedwhy · 12/01/2024 22:36

We're in the poorest 1% apparently. £65k, three kids, mortgage £790 per month.

Don’t be silly. Someone working full time on national minimum wage earns £18,900. How could you possible be in the lowest 1% of earners while that is the case?

LadyKenya · 12/01/2024 22:44

glossypeach · 12/01/2024 22:31

Disabled single parent on benefits! Can’t work due to my disability and it makes me feel awful looking at peoples income on here, especially when people say ‘I only earn 50k’.

Don't be downhearted because you are not able to work. Living with a disability is hard enough, without comparing yourself to others, who are able to work. Society places too much value on how much a person is capable of earning.

idontlikealdi · 12/01/2024 22:44

210

But you'll get everyone on here saying anyone over 20 is fabricating.

WithACatLikeTread · 12/01/2024 22:43

Alwayswonderedwhy · 12/01/2024 22:36

We're in the poorest 1% apparently. £65k, three kids, mortgage £790 per month.

I doubt it.

maddiemookins16mum · 12/01/2024 22:41

AhBiscuits · 12/01/2024 21:24

People will just make shit up, it's completely meaningless.

This.

Flandango · 12/01/2024 22:39

Err, not 100% sure. About £10-15m. Don't pay much tax as we channel it through the Cayman Islands

User6464242 · 12/01/2024 22:39

DH (doctor/surgeon with his own clinic) makes about 1.4million a year and I think about 30% ends up his own after all costs are deducted. I make about 80K pre tax and 45K post, also self employed.

Obviously being MN, people will assume all high earners are lying fantasists because they think that rich people are so rare they can't possibly be spending their time on random online forums. Truth is, high earners are not that rare at all especially middle-aged people who have had decades to establish a career (core demographic here).

We don't live the "Instagram" lifestyle that people may assume you do in this bracket. We both drive cars that are over 10 yrs old. Our home is in a luxury new build but not big for 3 (900sqft). Our only splurges are holidays and private school for DD. We have split accounts and I pay for my own clothes/consumables and DH sends me 1K a month for household stuff like groceries, bills etc. I honestly don't know what he does with the rest of the money...usually invests all the excess back into his business.

Alwayswonderedwhy · 12/01/2024 22:36

We're in the poorest 1% apparently. £65k, three kids, mortgage £790 per month.

WhereGlasses · 12/01/2024 22:36

£70k gross, single parent to two kids. Feel like I'm constantly budgeting as large mortgage and bills. Two parents of £35k each would be much better off as two personal allowances and they'd get child benefit.

But such is life.

Dustybear · 12/01/2024 22:36

Jobseeking · 12/01/2024 22:29

Yours is the lifestyle I dream of

what do you do for work? I can’t see a reality where I’ll earn that much so please inspire me

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Can I add to that..do you accept begging letters? Asking for an old granny struggling to get by on £10k a year 😊

Ibizafun · 12/01/2024 22:36

800k last year earned by dh alone. He's just showed me his tax bill..

EC22 · 12/01/2024 22:35

73k
2 adults 4 children.
live month to month no savings lots of debt