Does everyone on MN earn loads of money!?

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for context, I earn 27K per annum and so does my husband. We have one DC. We are early 30s.

I just feel all the posts I read on here more or less everyone is loaded. Don’t get me wrong we can comfortably pay our bills but we have to save for anything big (holiday Xmas etc)

we still private rent. I’d love a mortgage but it’s not gonna be in the next 5 years for us.

everyone on MN seems to have huge houses, loads of holidays and multiple DC’s 🫣

Not at all. There are a lot of us really struggling, sadly.

Well, they say they do. Seriously though, I think there’s quite a range. Plenty of threads from people on NMW who are struggling.

Nope.

i’m disabled, medically retired and living off my savings.

Don't believe everything you read on MN.

They all seem to have massive pensions as well and are on track to retire in their mid 50s. I can’t afford to even contribute to the work place pension!

Some do.

Some are on the breadline.

Some are trapped in abusive marriages with high-earning men that they can't afford to leave.

Some are fantasists posting pictures of swanky Paris hotel rooms and claiming it's their own bedroom.

Nope, I make about the same as you but live alone with secondary school age ds and private rent, I'm most definitely not loaded!

I love being single but it would be nice to split a bill every now and then and not have to shoulder the whole financial burden myself

I earn £32k a year, but I live alone in a private rental with two demanding dogs.

I struggle some months to cope with the income I have, mainly due to my large rental bill (£1,150 a month). Luckily, or unluckily depending on your point of view, I separated from my husband in March this year. I sold the family home and we split the proceeds. I invested my money and I take a monthly income of £600 from it, which means I can keep my head above water and keep the dogs in good quality dog food.

I don't 👋I earn a little more than you but I'm on my own (DC grown up) I worked for min wage for many a year too and live in SH.

Though the thing with an anonymous forum is I could be telling you that while posting from the poolside of my private villa in Italy while earning 10x what you do and posting on another thread about my 50% tax rate.

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When I read some of the threads that include the words " I'm a high earner" or describe the DH / DP or b/f as a " high earner" and then go on to quote some , to me, astronomical salary I'm just totally bemused.
I can think of some careers and professions which command high salaries but it's hard to imagine all the posters on here that mention the high salaries work in the same smallish number of professions.
Of course there are regional variations on salaries but I still find the proportion of posters from very high earning back grounds really weird. I know having money brings it's own problems but I find the fact these high earners turn to MN to help solve their problems really strange when I feel they must be able access other sources of help.

I'd earn 22k if I worked full time in my role. As it stands I work PT and get universal credit. I do own my small house though so I know I'm luckier than many.

No, certain threads will attract higher earners though.

They all seem to have massive pensions

I assumed this was because the average user was older so had better schemes.

It’s a very mixed bag - we do earn quite high but have correspondingly high business debt, rent ( a lovely house but still rent) and don’t have pensions - our business will be that. There are a lot of 50 and 60 somethings on here due to when it started , plenty who will have inherited or divorced etc and so it can feel like an awful lot are in a good position

Full time on minimum wage is about £25k now.

No, OP, I can assure you we don't ;)

Depends what thread you are on and what days. Some days it looks like no one can afford rent, some days t looks like no one is below 150k salary

I’m a higher earner now (sorry!) but I joined mumsnet when I was on NMW. I skipped all the ‘how much do you earn’ / ‘what do you do’ / ‘how much do you have saved’ threads mostly, assuming no one wants to hear I was on less than £10 an hour and dead broke! I think that probably skews some numbers.

I think people also talk aspirationally, if not outright lying. I read some of the holiday threads where people comment about pricing up Canada, or thinking of a Safari for Summer ‘26, and wonder it’s the same kind of daydreaming I used to do, convinced my financial situation would dramatically change so I could book!

I have been on MN for about 22 years and agree it would seem the vast majority are high earner with Husbands who also earn the same. One thread a few days ago the Mother was moaning that her adult Son had not been in touch on his Birthday when they 'bunged' 5k in his account, as well as giving him 30k not long before. OP said it was not unusual in her circle that parents give hundreds of thousands to their kids. I wondered if OP was bullshitting at that stage.

Like society in general it's a mixed bag. Some earn a lot, some don't.

I know that in my group of friends we earn the least, have the cheapest house and the smallest pension pot.

What amuses me is when posters assert that people who say they are high earners must be lying.

I don’t really get what point you’re trying to make.

We are all different, come from different circumstances, have different priorities etc.

Many of us will be somewhere in the middle of what you’ve described.

I'm totally broke. I do feel potentially that I'm in the minority on here, but there is a wide mix. Plenty of people probably like showing off too.

I think there’s a huge jump when it comes to some professions.
Any GPs, over the age of 35 ( if they qualified in their twenties ), consultants, dentists will be on at least £100,000. Lawyers and accountants working in central London/the City will be on FAR more than that.

I suspect Mumsnet had lots of these types of profession

What amuses me is when posters assert that people who say they are high earners must be lying.

Of course not everyone is lying, but either some are lying or every person in the UK earning over £100k posts on MN…

Oh absolutely darling - and you know what - they simply can't manage on £7800 a month, what with cost of living crisis....

Also, didn't you know £250,000 is absolutely not enough if you live in London (which everyone has to, otherwise they are poor and probably northern)

Mumsnet seems to attract a lot of people who like to brag.

Posters on six figure slaries
Posters whose DC achieve all 9s at GCSE and all A* at A level
Posters whose DC play sport at county level
Posters whose DC have grade 8 in several musical instruments
Posters who regularly eat at Michelin starred restaurants