£100k and above earners - tell me your money worries

[SortMyHouse]

Hi

Inspired by another thread!

I would like to hear from people who earn over £100k, where do you live, what do you do / sector? What qualifications do you have?

Then the reality of how far that salary goes.
What are your costs?
What are your money worries?

Thanks

£30k earner won't have the advice I'm looking for.

Presumptuous, much? How do you know that a £30k earner won't have the advice you're looking for?

What if the aforementioned £30k earner was a trainee accountant?

You sound completely and utterly up yourself.

I'm logging off.

00:47rocky1914

I can start a thread about anything I want
I can direct it to a particular set of people

What do you care so much?

00:52rocky1914

I'm a qualified accountant
I wouldn't need their advice

I only want the advice of Londoners that are £100 plus households give or take but it'll be interesting how others in the country are getting on with the same salaries

@SortMyHouse

00:27ChannelTheCalmaLlama

Don't let these awful people get to you
If they have a problem with the thread they can just ignore it

I started it as it was made clear we couldn't comment on the average earnings one

Fair enough

But we can have our thread

Plus your situation isn't privileged - you have serious issues, you're allowed to talk about them

Even Rishi Sunak must wonder what money problems Bezos has, just as we wonder what Sunak is worrying about - money problems are relative too.

Not everyone has to survive this life, some of us want to live it too.

Thank you so much for being so kind, and especially after I reacted so badly to you post on the other thread because I thought you were also being unkind. 😔

FWIW I had an abusive childhood, lived on my own from 16 onwards and have had no help. Undiagnosed autism until I was 34 so no help with that either. I do think all of this competitiveness about how bad people have had things is counterproductive. I've always had to sink or swim, but that's not nice either. I try to make sure my children will never have to do that. But don't understand why so many people have to be so unkind.

Yes, I know what it's like to be poor. Really poor. No heating, damp, no cooker, no money for food. I don't see why people are so angry at me saying that yes - even though I worked 100 hour weeks to get qualifications and promotions for 20 years to change things - things are still a struggle despite my salary now.

As I said I know we are lucky to have food and heat - I lived many years without enough of both. That doesn't mean things aren't hard now, as a lone parent who is disabled and trying to provide alone with no help from family/ Government.

Thank you for being so kind and I wish there were more people like you so that it was at least ok to talk about why it is hard without being shouted at.

Yeah, let's not do that.

Answer my question(s) before you get an answer to yours:

*Presumptuous, much? How do you know that a £30k earner won't have the advice you're looking for?

What if the aforementioned £30k earner was a trainee accountant?*

If you can't answer then I guess that proves my point. 🙄

I'm a qualified accountant
I wouldn't need their advice

Right.

So what if there was someone that exists who could provide you with exactly the answers and information you require ..but they earn £30k.

Then what?

Feel stupid yet? 🥱

@Nightmanagerfan I love the fact you rolled your sleeves up

00:58rocky1914

Not that I have to answer you

But I already have!!

I don't need the trainee accountant's advice as I am a qualified accountant!

Bitter person.

I'm an HCP and DH is an IT executive. We live in New York. Between us we gross about $200k. We have two kids in uni, which costs about $100k per year for both. DS graduates this spring, so then we will be down to just DD. We've been saving for their uni costs since they were toddlers and my lovely MIL has contributed very generously, but it's still a big lift financially.

We will both retire within a year or two after DD graduates in 2024. Our big risk then will be a prolonged drop in the stock market as we are heavily invested in equities. We paid cash for our house in 2003, drive Subarus and don't live extravagantly.

You know what? Don't answer that.

I'm tired and refuse to waste my time on this ridiculous thread.

Hope you get the answers that you're looking for from a Londoner earning more than £100k and not an estate agent or mortgage advisor earning £30k or less.

Goodnight. 🙄

@rocky1914 didn’t you promise us you were logging off?

@SortMyHouse

01:01rocky1914

You're the stupid one

If they earn £30k in today's climate
They can't give the reality of London life on £100k in today's climate

Awful, jealous person

Says who?

How do you know that the aforementioned £30k earner doesn't live with someone who earns £100k plus ..in London?

Because my DH and I earn £175k combined ..in London ..in today's climate.

So what's your bloody point?

Awful? Sometimes. Jealous? Definitely not, my dear.

What is there to be jealous of? You are here creating threads asking about people's income like that is any of your business? 😄

Go and mind the business that pays you and I'll go back to being an awful person.

Deal? Great.

Now goodnight.

Lol an estate agent can tell me about properly prices

Mortgage about mortgage advisors

Only households on £100k plus in London can tell me about their lifestyles, their realties

You really are grasping at straws
Throw all the professions at me but if they don't meet the title criteria I'm not interested, however they are free to comment

@StarsAreWishes I don't recall promising anyone anything. I said I was logging off. Can you read properly? Clearly not. This is an A and B conversation.

C your way out of it. Thanks. 🙄

Am not sure it’s a crass thread , I earn less than the national all average and am a single parent but I live in a low cost area , very small mortgage , no childcare costs and no debt I bet if I lived in London’s and earned around 100k I’d be far worse off than I am now after higher tax , higher living costs etc 🤷🏻‍♀️

[quote rocky1914]@StarsAreWishes I don't recall promising anyone anything. I said I was logging off. Can you read properly? Clearly not. This is an A and B conversation.

C your way out of it. Thanks. 🙄 [/quote]
Maybe it was just my wishful thinking. You’ve said good night so many times … will you be singing us a lullaby next?

@StarsAreWishes definitely wishful thinking. I totally would have sang you a lullaby if you hadn't invited yourself into my mentions when I wasn't addressing you. Is that something you do regularly? Just ..force yourself on people? Sad. If I wasn't such an awful person I might actually feel sorry for you. 😩 Bye now, go and wish upon a star or something, you're boring. Goodbye.

ChannelTheCalmaLlama and Sortmyhouse, you have my support.

£100,000 in London does not go far if you did not buy a home long ago and if you are considering private school fees or have pre-school childcare costs. Been there, got the T-shirt.

Keep at it, and you will come out on the other side.

Lots of accountants on this thread. One bit of good news is that my son is graduating this spring with an accounting degree and he already has a job offer from PWC for $67k per year. He did an internship with them last spring. And yes, we are really proud of him.

01:13Changemaname1

Thanks for understanding

This thread was created so we could talk about what we perceive as issues without others getting offended

That's why the title is labelled as such

If someone lives in Oldham on £70k - they're probably living the dream

Whereas, one of our posters is on £150k and if you read her posts she is not frivolous but her position is scary for the next year or so

The poorest person in the UK could not understand the plight of the poorest person in cyclone ridden Bangladesh - that doesn't mean the former doesn't have issues.

It's ridiculous how people don't allow others to have a voice because they earn more than whatever is acceptable.

Thanks for your understanding and post.