To want to know what you consider a good salary?

[Llanali]

I'm relatively new to MN, and I keep seeing this phrase " XXX earns a good salary" so I am intrigued! What is a good salary ? £20k? 30k ? £100k?!

Is there an official guide to such definitions somewhere? I wouldn't ask my friends or family a personal question such as their salary, so the idea of what is good isn't one I have really considered.

He'll be on at least 50% of his final salary ILike, if he joined the pension scheme as soon as he was employed.

One of the things I find really scary about the scaling back of pension schemes is this- what happens to all the livelihoods that are dependent on pensioners spending money? All those comfortable pensioners on final salary/defined benefit schemes disappear and a lot of spending disappears too.

I don't think all comfortably off pensioners have final salary pensions even now. Some were self employed for example. I think the biggest issue in the future will be generation rent reaching retirement and not being able to afford rent any more. But also it is worrying for individuals who just scrape by month to month, especially the poorer SAHPs who are forced to do so because of the cost of childcare and what this means for their future income. There will be a lot of future government expenditure picking up the pieces or destitute pensioners. The number of people threatened by poverty or in real poverty is why some of the posts on this thread are just .

I think 20k is a good salary; I think at least half the country would agree with me as more than half earn less than that.

I would say decent salary would be to earn your age. Starting at £21k when you leave school.

In the midlands, me, DH, 4month old DD, I'd consider a 'good' salary for DH to be £45k, as I could then be a stay at home mum and we'd be comfortable.

Whatever you're currently earning + 20%