To ask how much

[Angel786]

You earn (if working). I know it would be rude in person but strangers on t'internet seems fine. Am just being nosy after seeing someone say they felt poor when her DH earns 45k p/a. Doesn't sound like poor to me.

Well paid jobs for DH and I (through school of life, hard work, and unending repayment of student loan University, though childcare fees are shocking locally, and (2 vehicles out of rural/job related necessity) car(s) costs @1.45 a litre to fill up.

Mortgage in the medium range (Scotland, so never horrendously catastrophic unless in Edinburgh/Glasgow/Stirling/Perth/Inverness commuter belt) tho' still a stonking percentage of monthly income. Eat well, drink well and know unlikely to reach (future) pensionable age (family genes) (and )

Poverty can be absolute and relative...I once survived on @15 pounds a fortnight...it's what you do with the money you have that counts, and where your priorities lie.

'No pockets in a shroud' as someone once told me, feck, it's only pieces of paper!

Dh is self employed. His profit last year was £30,000 but he realistically brought home around £24,000. My full wage would be £19,000 if full time but due to sick leave for 3/4 of last year I brought home £900 :-(

coco people can look for work in cheaper areas. I realise it's neither simple nor easy, but it is lifestyle choice.

It depends on your profession though

The biggest, best paid firms with the best prospects and the best work for many are London

Most people will be thinking long term

That's such a Londoncentric thing to say!

Well possibly as it's true!

I think nearly every decent company that DH could be employed in is in London, with one major in the SE

Thats just how his profession works as you need to be near other large firms in parallel industries for work purposes

Either that or abroad...

silver frog was that a typo? You pay 50k/ year for your DS school? :o

I earn 22k, DH earns 17k but it's not enough for us - rent is high, childcare costs are high...

Meant not :o obv

sadly not, Olive. it did (and does, but now is funded by LEA) cost 50k. And we had to fund it while fighting for her Statement, which meant we were also paying solicitors, and for private reports into her needs.

and all to get what is actually her right - a suitable education.

We live in NE and DH earns around 45k. I am a student and we have 5 dcs. We're okay. Mortgage around 1k a month and we can afford a decent standard of living if we don't go mad.

Wow silver that's shocking! Pleased you got it funded in the end. Must have been a huge relief.

We live in Central London. Between us DP and I clear £58k and are on approx equal salaries (bonus fluctuates quarter to quarter both of us).

To be honest, with childcare and mortgage we have enough to live 'comfortably' as long as we don't go crazy. However childcare, mortgage, travel and food are more expensive than they would be if we lived in either of our home towns.

I earn £30,000 working full time as a community nurse. DH is a self employed bricklayer last year earning about £16,000. Have a dd aged 2 1/2 who is in nursery and another baby due in a few weeks. After paying mortgage/ childcare etc we have nothing left at the end of the month- not sure how we are going to cope when dc2 comes along but I'm sure we will some how.

THanks, Olives - it was indeed a huge relief

I wish I could say that it then felt as though we had pots of cash, but as with everything, life expands to fill the gaps (that, and the fact we were using savings to pay for large chunks of it anyway!)

But it is an enormous burden off dh's shouders, tbh - with that, and the older dc's university fees and living expenses etc, he had to earn stupid amounts (if you gross it up) before he got to bring home a penny...

7.5k for 17.5 hours per week. DH, 24k pa. I'm looking for a full time, or even part time job - but there is just nothing in my vocation about in my area.

We are definitely feeling the pinch.

I think the national average is about 25k, i think i heard Evan Davies on R4 saying that half the population are over and half under 25k. Only 10% are on 50k or more and are classified as high earners. I think.

I earn about £26 K for 3 days a week. (FT wahe about £45K). Not sure what my husband earns -he is a sole trader and his turnover is around £100K a year I think.

Not that much but it's enough because I'm good with money and my mortgage is paid off.

Do you mean earn? Or total income? I earn 11K, 30 hrs /wk term time only (£800/mth) but with WTC I take home more than this.

I don't have a massive income, have lot's of outgoings (debt etc from when with EX) but when debt gone will be more comfortable.

If you want a laugh though I have worked out when I finish my degree and start teaching I will be no better off after all my outgoings.
Just as well I love what I do.

DH earns around £150k, I'm a SAHM, we save alot of that.

We live way, way out of London (Welsh borders) although our nearest town is a big tourist honey-pot so prices there are akin to London (£4.80 for a pint anyone?), housing etc is cheaper though.

I feel far from skint, but don't feel rich, probably because we save a large proportion of our income. We don't have lavish holidays, I'm fairly frugal when it comes to clothing the children & furnishing the house, no expensive hobbies. We do eat well & eat out fairly regularly & have a fair few weekends away.

We have, however had a period of being utterly, utterly skint, when I first met DH I had just moved back to the UK after leaving my first husband, took five years to force my ex to sell the marital home and ££££ in legal fees, DH had just changed career, was free-lancing and work was erratic, I had many months lying in bed, sobbing because I couldn't work out how to pay all the bills.

Am I happier now than I was then? Not really, I have less worries & would have been glad of a 45k income at that time.

It's all relative, it's a bad idea to compare ourselves to others which is the thread I think Angel is referring to.

DH will earn (including all earnings, mind, stock, bonus, and annual salary) $760,000 this year. I know, I know, this is an extraordinary sum of money. Blows my mind. Just his salary alone is $265,000 and we make sure to live off that, and save the extras for, well, extras like plane tickets, and obviously a lot goes in savings. I'm a SAHM - I just can't justify my earning when he makes so much and I really want to be at home with the kids.

And of course, this is not something we can share with anyone outside of family - funny how we will share sex stuff quite happily (well, I do ) but there is such a taboo around money, isn't there?

Apart from on MN, of course

It's true though - Chocolate (& I thank you for being much more loaded than me) is right, OP asked the question, but it only seems right to post if you don't earn too much, hence the tumble-weed.

But OP did ask the question.

I often wonder the same about MNters, because they are, on the whole I think, not an average demographic & I always want to ask (because I'm a nosy sod & everyone I know seems to be doing ok but that doesn't tally with what we're hearing economically at the moment & I just want to try & see the real picture) but I always think high earners shy away from answering because they're scared of getting a flaming.

So if we can't tell the truth on here............

How will we ever know?