Does anyone here have an ‘average’ job with an average wage?

@JudgeBread

And I tend to find it quite obvious which are the bullshitters and which aren't. The more smug they sound, the more likely they're chatting shit.

Go on then, how do you tell someone who's lying about having a salary over £100k? And how can you prove it, given that you don't know any of them IRL? Genuinely curious. There are tons of people posting on here who earn £100k plus. How do you spot a wrong' un?

I didn't say everyone was lying, I said a lot of them.

And I tend to find it quite obvious which are the bullshitters and which aren't. The more smug they sound, the more likely they're chatting shit.

Also if you really don't know what might motivate people to lie on the internet I don't know what to tell you. You can't have been online very long lmao. Half the fucking posts on here are fake.

This isn't an anti feminist or anti woman thing either so don't try and make it one, I'd say the same thing if it was a forum full of men bragging about their big titted wives and massive dicks salaries. This website just happens to be mostly women.

Yup. I work 32 hours a week (from home) for 26.5k plus a monthly discretionary bonus so probably end up with about 28-28.5 a year. No career progression where I am at all, although I am in the process of applying for uni as I aim to change career and become a midwife (still not great money but at least somewhat better and something I actually want to do). Husband is on 50k which I thought was really good, but when I see some of the salary figures thrown about on mn I am in awe! We have a 3 bed semi detached house, wouldn’t have been able to buy without inheritance money for the deposit. So a pretty modest lifestyle but I still count our blessings as we do currently have money leftover each month for fun (this will change if I do go to uni!)

I work in a professional job in a respected supposedly well paid field and earn next to minimum wage..

Us! Dh works in a nursery for m.w., I would have been on 33k this year but was made redundant, now on 28.5. Both of us have degrees, and further qualifications. Honestly we felt rich when we went over £50k combined, which i often see on here isn't much for one person!

I think we are pretty fortunate but certainly not super well off. I earn £65k with about 30k in bonus - but get taxed super heavily. DH is on £65k. I’m off with stage 4 cancer right now and on SSP, so really feeling it. If I had to give up work we’d really struggle.

Stressful local government job, administration but I manage people and processes plus data. I earn £45k and feel pretty well off
Husband was made redundant and changed sectors. Now works in child protection field and earns about £27k

Most of the £100k earners on Mumsnet spend an inordinate amount of time on here for people in such high paid roles. That is assuming it's not one person with a load of socks or a load of made up bollocks.

Nor is a minimum wage job. UK average is around £37k so actually £50k is as close to average as a minimum wage salary is.

I have a professional job - fairly stressful but am on about 40k as a graduate. I think I know a few people on 100k but they are not the norm in my circle

Hope this makes you feel abit better OP, there are many more of us than you think

I work in a school on 29k, my husband earns around 50k. We have some investments that pay about £500 a month. We earn less than a lot of our friends but have lower bills and are able to enjoy an abroad holiday each year, with some extra treats! We feel very fortunate to be in the position we are, though compared to many of the posters on here we’re practically poor!!

Online retail, a sliver above minimum wage which definitely isn’t enough for the unsociable hours I work

You’re both doing well to have secure jobs and to be on top of debt. Presume your jobs will be contributing to your pensions too so you’re in a better position than you think you are.

Hoping home ownership happens one day for you. Could you have a longer term plan of transferring jobs to a cheaper area so home ownership may not be such a leap?

Me, I was made redundant from a job that had an excellent package but the whole corporate life sucked the life and joy out of me.

I took the money and ran, now I work 30 hours a week in a supermarket. Never been happier…

I'm band 3 NHS admin, just over 30k. OH is on around 28k (carpet sales) but he does get bonuses. We don't live together yet though.

Earning minimum wage isn’t an average job on an average salary, though. Only about 10% of workers are on the NLW.

My husband and I both work full-time. I earn £32,000 and he earns £25,000. No kids. We have a 3 bedroom house in a very cheap town but in a nice part of it, quiet estate, no trouble, and good public transport. We have one car, very little debt, and our mortgage is less than £400 per month.

I feel that we definitely earn below average but probably have an above average lifestyle compared to people who have kids/live in more expensive areas. We go on holiday several times a year and can afford to go out to eat or to the pub when we wish

I would never have been able to buy a house without my parents gifting me the deposit so I feel very privileged and realise the average person doesn't get as much help.

Yes I earn about 30k full time but now work part time. My job is administrative and very much peaks and troughs. Other half is an engineer and makes a bit more than me but not masses. I am waiting to retrain as a nurse though as my heart really isn't in dead end admin jobs. My daughter has a health condition so waiting for her to be a wee bit older and more resilient before jumping into full time education

Are you happy @gummybearrr ? That’s what matters really. Everyone is different. My life is quite chaotic and our income is not stable in the sense it’s the same every month, but we (me and DH) are both self employed which suits our personalities and priorities. So it’s a question of what you seek in life really for me and each to their own! X

Oh, I’m an average earner. My DH is not. He’s one of the six figure earners that don’t exist. But our kids are not in private school, they’ve never been skiing and aren’t 6ft2.

I think I win (or not).
DP works in a school (term time only) as a technician, so earns around £20k, take home a month around £1500 as he pays into pension etc.

I am disabled so we claim UC top up, I get the work element and PIP too. Which brings our monthly income to £2,800. That includes child benefit for our son.
We wouldn’t cope on any less. It’s a real struggle. We own our house and pay mortgage, so not eligible for housing benefit. We live in the North so living costs slightly cheaper.

There may well be some fantasists on here... but why does everyone assume that anyone who claims to earn six figures is automatically lying?

I know 100k seems absurd if you're earning less than a third of that. But surely statistically its impossible that all of these people are lying? According to stats I've seen from government and elsewhere women earning over £100k are roughly 1% of the UK population. While that's undoubtedly small, its 1% of about 70 million people, so it shouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility that some of them are on here and telling the truth? (particularly if we believe that Mumsnet skews wealthy and south-east).

Also what would anyone have to gain from anonymously boasting about their income? There's no credit in telling randoms on the internet something which isn't true. What's the point?

It just irritates me when people kneejerk to assuming everyone who says this is lying. It sends a signal to other women reading this board that the idea of a high-paid woman is so incredible it must a lie. It's not a great message to send to younger women embarking on their careers.

Minimum wage is not at all average wages which I believe are around £37-38k now in the UK, so your question should be “Is anyone else on NMW”. And in answer to that question, of course there are people on MN who are. It’s just that there are also professional women who earn £100k+ and a fair few who earn substantially more than that, if you frequent some boards. It’s a very diverse forum, contrary to popular belief. It’s always interesting to learn that some posters have never met anyone who earns £100k IRL, as surely they’ve met their GP, their dentist, their children’s headteacher, etc.

I do! Band six working for the NHS. That’s about average wage, 8-4 Monday to Friday. I work in mental health as a practitioner. Is that average enough? I’m on sick leave and fighting to get back.

I'm a postie, I make basically minimum wage.

I'd bet my very measly salary that a lot of these high earners with 6 figure husbands and 2.5 6'2" sons in private school who speak 6 languages are actually very average earners talking a load of wank and just role playing their dream life. We can't all live "very rurally dahling".

As they say, don't believe everything you read online.