AIBU to think many Mumsnet posters seem to be high earners?

I just detest this idea that a woman is lying if she says earns more, maybe it makes people feel better? I just find it a really odd reaction, I’ve been on forums a long time, when I was an average earner I never assumed people were lying, I was genuinely interested in what they did and what I could do to earn more.

Women on high salaries can be in abusive relationship too and struggle to leave.
Domestic abuse isn’t the purview of any specific demographic.

That is still 400,000 women. Are you really expecting the posts to reflect society? 2% will be over £70,000 or whatever? Of course not. As has been said MN itself has always meant more MC, SE. Then you’ve got the fact threads talking about income will disproportionately attract statistical outliers because who wants to be the 155th person to say £38,000? It’s like holiday threads; if you read that you might assume everyone goes on safari or to Thailand, lots of people do, but equally thousands of people go to Butlins, but it’s less interesting to say that on those threads.

While I don’t disagree with you that the salary pyramid is problematic. Almost all business have a pyramid structure to their staff – that’s the best way a business operates, vis-a-vis much fewer higher earning jobs, much more plentiful lower earning jobs.

The taxpayer ‘subsidies’ a business in myriad ways. Tax breaks, retail mark ups, innovation grants, capital allowances, employment allowance …

It IS a high earner. Those are the stats.
It’s irrelevant to then discuss your outgoings. For this thread anyway. 80K is a high earner. We all understand tax and cost of living.

My salary falls just under £100,000 but stock pushes me over. It's taken a long while to get up to this amount.

However, the likelihood of me getting another job with this amount is very unlikely so I live well within my means, and any long term financial planning I make with a £60k figure (mortgage/savings etc etc).

I don’t see either being a majority on MN, I feel like I see a complete mix every day.

You’ve put people on benefits below the very poor. In fact many people within the “medium” and “low” levels receive benefits of some kind - cos the government recognises that salaries in this country don’t allow people to support themselves.

Exactly this is my beef too: people assume that the OP’s husband or partner must be the breadwinner. Why?

My very rudimentary maths gets me to 400,000. If even a fraction of those women are on Mumsnet you could still plausibly have hundreds of women earning over £70k posting on here. It really isn’t that much of an outlier.

Yes this is absolutely true, if I deigned to call my salary high (which I do think it is) I’d have my arse handed to me.

Everyone’s rich online. Reddit does the same (but with men).

Also, this post has irked me, why are you so happy to believe their partner could be earning more but not a woman, she must be lying. The stats for high earning men will be below average too.

This is more common on MN - people who ARE high earners but say they are not. Earning a salary in the top 10% (or so) is a high earner.

And while 2% sounds little, how many hundreds of thousands of women is that?

My DH on his own is £150k. It's lovely. Buy unfortunately so much gets eaten in tax.

But there’s something like 20 million women in the UK of working age. And if there’s a skew towards middle class women in the South East and London, which is often claimed but I can’t verify it, it seems likely that wealthier women are over-represented.

There could very easily be a few thousand women on Mumsnet in that income bracket. Certainly in the £70k + bracket.

I often ask myself the same question...

I assume there are quite a few people on here who just make things up, add their partner's salary to their own to make up their 100K figure or have family wealth and properties (rather than making their living from a regular job).

There probably are also quite a few Londoners and salaries are higher there, although again many Londoners just have normal salaries.

It is best not to compare yourself to anyone else anyway.

It’s really not because you are not taking home double the average after tax. I truly am grateful that my husband and I earn well but take home is not that much . I’m on £900 a day (contractor), however I’m inside IR35, if it was an outside contract I would be laughing all the way to the bank. My Husband is on 180k, luckily no school age children as we wouldn’t be able to afford private school fees. I wish the govt schools in this country had better standards all around.

It really isn’t luxury living, however it’s not to say I’m not grateful and thankful to Jesus everyday. Just trying to show that the disposable income you get after is not what many would think.

We're a high earning family due to the fact we did work hard at school. Very hard. Getting out of poverty in India, education is the way. We both did engineering at university and later did our own skilled masters.

DH worked and works is arse off to be. And he's rewarded by being in the 45p rate, paying an effective 60% tax even though he single handedly earns more than what most families together do.

No one’s saying we shouldn’t have high earners. The point is the gap. Also if a company pays wages low enough that the state has to top them up with benefits, the taxpayer is effectively subsidising that business. Higher wages, less reliance on benefits, and a less extreme gap seems pretty reasonable to me.

Only 1% of women in the UK earns 100k or more. 2% earn over 70k. So high earning women should be extremely rare indeed on the site and the number claiming to be is at odds with that.
Some might mean their partners are high earners.

This comes up often. I've been posting here a few years and think there is a good cross section:
high earners,
medium - reasonably comfortable but none to spare,
quite low to poor,
on benefits.

I'm a pensioner who manages with nothing left over but not complaining.

Pretty much every person in every investment bank in London who is at MD level earns around £400k so do most CEOs and CFOs of listed companies. There are tens of thousands of them in London.

Listed - FTSE listed? I'd be really surprised if there is at least one CEO of FTSE100 earning less than £1m pa before bonus. The next level below them would be 700k+, CFOs are usually at least £1m+ as well
Standard daily rate for a mid level IT contractor is 600, InfoSec can easily be 800+ per day.

Depending on the context some people are worth more than others.