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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

OP posts:
Bertiesmum3 · 12/01/2024 21:25

42k at the moment, I’m looking at reducing my hours because I don’t need to be working the hours I’m doing!

Terfosaurus · 12/01/2024 21:25

Approx £21k. Me and 2 teens.

Edited to day that 1 teen is actually 19. So technically an adult.

BiscuitsandPuffin · 12/01/2024 21:24

FWIW even though we are the lowest income out of all DS's friends, have the oldest car on our estate and can't afford a house around here, I think on a national average we're very much above average and in professional jobs.

AhBiscuits · 12/01/2024 21:24

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

Summerisawashout · 12/01/2024 21:23

There are plenty of similar threads if you search. I don't mind sharing, household income 250k but live in London so mortgage, childcare and commute costs alone are 5k a month

BiscuitsandPuffin · 12/01/2024 21:22

60k before tax. No idea after as we have complicated tax status. It was 80k last year but we both reduced our hours because we were just working to pay childcare and had nothing left on top of that. SE England though so we can't get a mortgage on that.

midnights0 · 12/01/2024 21:22

Less than 30k. Dh is a manager on a shite wage in retail, I've had to cut my hours to 25 for personal reasons. We private rent & are paying off a lot of debt. 2 kids (DH children) half the time. We never go without. We are on the opposite spectrum of what I always see on here, but I most people I know are the same as me

RosesAndHellebores · 12/01/2024 21:22

Why?

Getthethrowonthesofa · 12/01/2024 21:21

Plenty of stats available, what do you hope to achieve by asking mumsnetters?