“100k isn’t a big salary”

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I’ve just logged onto instagram and YET AGAIN a post comes up headed “100k isn’t a big salary, here’s why”. I’m so sick of seeing it. Most of us earn nowhere near 100k. I don’t spend my time moaning on instagram about how hard done by I am and there aren’t news articles about it. I don’t even feel like I AM hard done by. I feel lucky to be earning less than half that and to have a reasonable flexible job. I’m not going to the press saying poor me poor me because I don’t feel sorry for myself. Yet there seems to be shitloads of “awareness” posts about how shit it is for high earners and how it’s so sad they don’t have free childcare. I know people can have high expenses and I know it’s all relative and I’m probably overreacting but I seriously do not care anymore. It doesn’t mean the salary isn’t high. I’m so sick of seeing these out of touch posts. 🤯

Perfectly put

I haven't said that at all. I pointed out earlier that a teacher at the top of main scale and UPS in London gets around £50k. I didn't bring age into it. That teacher (four years at university with loans to pay etc) has to manage on half what the £100k earner the same age has. Nothing you have said makes any difference to that. For teacher you could say NHS worker, social worker and many other essential graduate jobs. Just accept that the person with £100k has more money.

@DrCoconut No I don’t! What a load of rubbish! Why do you think better off people spend all their time thinking about when others have a pizza! I don’t care other than I would hope dc had a healthy diet I between the pizzas.

I have earned 100K in the past it is a lot of money I have now paid of my mortgage and live comfortably on a third of that because I chose to drop income for more free time, having paid into my pension I am fortunate to be able to do that. My sister lived and worked in London for years she has since moved on but her job would now be about 70K

no-one is saying 100k pays for private education or 3 cruises a year or a ferrari each or wining and dining every night, We know it is not footballers salary where some seem to get that per week

we are saying its a good salary it is top 2% of salaries and top 7% in london and southeast so objectively it is a good salary even for the capital

no-one is disputing that some people may have very large bills in London and consequently fel they do not have as much spare cash,

also a headteacher on 100K in London will have less discretionary spending than the headteacher in Hull on 93K ( despite the London weighting)

neither is anyone saying that 100K doesn't go a lot further in some areas than others,

where I currently live a decent 3 bed house in nice area is about 300- 350K a (similar house in Croydon or Redhill would be 600-650K) and the local private school day fees are approx £19000 including VAT so if you had just 1 child you could probably afford private school whereas in Redhill you could not

I'm in Scotland so take home on 100K is less than England it is approx 65K or 5400 per month
in our area mortgage on 350,000 house with 300k mortgage for 25 years
mortgage 1600
council tax band F plus water plus sewerage 316 ( this are combined in Scotland)
obviouly leaves you with 3400 for food bills utilities transport etc

you would not have 3400 left in London / Surrey after mortgage for similar house but that doesn't mean that 100K is average for Redhill it is still a good salary and double the median so even in London and Surrey the vast majority of people (93%) you see on the street will have less than you

Well of course there will be people who believe that it's not that much, and people who feel like it's not... but it is definitely 100% a bigger salary than 95% of the country.
And of course people are entitled to feel like it's not much or, for whom, it feels like less because of the circumstances of their lives... but there will also be people in the same circumstances earning less than half that amount, who may feel a slight eyeroll when they see posts where people complain about £100k nor being that much.

always confused when people say their salary is 100k and then start listing council tax, gas, electric etc as stuff they have to pay
I also have to pay that on min wage by myself, we don’t get it free!

“Just accept that the person with £100k has more money.”
But in many circumstances they don’t.
Unsurprisingly most posters on mumsnet have children and the people with young children have a much more realistic understanding of the costs associated with that these days.
Someone going through the preschool years with children on 100k is very likely worse off than the worker on 50k who gets child benefit every four weeks topping up their income and then free nursery hours often to tune of 10s of thousands a year that the 100k income doesn’t receive.

Actually people have said it does pay for private education on this thread

I’m not sure anyone would say this.

Just admit you can’t read because I didn’t say anything about a combined salary of £100k

People are listing it on this thread further up as examples of bills and why 100k doesn’t go far enough

So you think people on low incomes are better off than people on £100k. Rightio.

I give up. There is no hope.

The maths doesn’t remotely add up, she knows that, but rather than say OK or just going away, she’s digging herself into and endless hole.

Well maybe it doesn’t. You have no idea of people’s circumstances or where the live and what bills the have.

Of course. But if we think like that we will spend our life eye rolling to one thing or another. Which of course you can - but I like to just look at my own navel and feel lucky for what I have and not compare myself to my neighbours because comparison is the stealer of joy - or whatever the saying (I suck at sayings so might be wrong 😑). I scroll past what I don’t like and don’t give it much thought. But then that could be because my brain is occupied by overthinking everything else in my life that is going on. And again just because someone is in the same circumstances with less money doesn’t make the person who has more money problems less valid to them. Maybe they are less resilient - again we don’t know. One person is not less than other is my point.

Oh I see, now we’ve reduced the children from 4 to 2, and increased the salary from 100k to 200k. I think the creation of exhaustion is all yours, my love.

@Cottagecheeseisnotcheese Where’s a £350,000 house in London? Other than way out in the suburbs? It’s not comparing like with like. Obviously £100,000 goes a long way in Lincolnshire. If you are buying a fairly ordinary flat with good transport links in London itself, £350,000 won’t get you much either.

Is two 50k salaries classed as a low income to you?

I'm talking about one income. £100k is more than £50k.

No, because the average household income is less than £40, household.

Sometimes, I am glad to be older and past all these decisions.

Of course, there is now a different set of choices to be made. Where am I, likely to be a widow within a few years, going to want to live alone?

Lol why on earth did I waste time going back and forth with you when this is your line of thinking? I hope you’re in that salary bracket and not wasting time kissing the asses of a segment of earners who clearly don’t share their spending secrets with you.

Of course it’s a lot but I know we couldn’t live on that- however life has been easier for my generation, whereas I’d be delighted if my kids earned that.

Okay call the police to arrest me for the hyperbole and call it a day

No need to take this line