To ask what you earn?

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Just read another thread about earnings. How old are you and what do you earn? I'm nosey!!

The extra questions - Degree? (Law, top of year, prizes etc... not saying to show off. Just to explain why I then ended up earning a fair bit)

Location? Most from NE to London (outer - never been able to afford to live in inner London) which meant not one evening of baby sitting from family for family ever just about, but everything has a price and consequence. It's been fine. We've managed.

Working hours? (I would have to generalise over 30 years and it changes. I would say I probably have worked harder than a lot of people - until went into labour, back full time at 2 weeks, expressing milk at work kind of hard but it paid off and I am so glad and I'm also very lucky, most of all not to get or be ill.

Kids? Yes. Youngest at university now so it's all very easy and the early sacrifice for sake of career was definitely worth it but not everyone has the same aims or is even able to get high grades in exams or is interested in much of a career or even knows about the choices of careers out there.

I'm 25 and earn 36k. I'm in a career where the pay is frontloaded with big jumps between grades.

DH, head boy, law, first, Oxbridge. London. Bar. Me home counties and well finished. Hard worker, probably brighter than thought but last of an era born as the 50s tipped into the 60s.

Neither of us the last of the big spenders.

Today - £25,000 for 5 days work in January.
Tomorrow - Nothing.
Sunday - Nothing.
Monday - Easy day, about £250 for reading a letter.

So what.

'No particularly high earnings have been mentioned have they? Surrey here though.'

This is a joke right? I would call 100k+ a high salary.

These posts just give people an excuse to show off. Why give it the time of day?! As everyone said a lot depends on location.

21 - 7000 a year. :( hopefully my book I'm working on will make me a millionaire!

Apart from silva no, I don't think high figures have been mentioned. £100k isn't particularly high in today's money. It was in the 80s/early 90s. It's mid range hospital consultant money with no private work.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/70000-john-mcdonnell-salary-hmrc-rich-top-5-percent-denial-a7697561.html

I can't believe what I've just read. We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

35, self employed freelancer, last year was 57k, this year looking like it'll be closer to 65.

Late 20's - about 6k :(

I earn vwry little. 32 and 30,500. I retrained 4 years ago and am earning less now than i did when i was 19

geology Can I ask what job you did before?

geology Can I ask what job you did before?

Full time carer for my son so £62 a week? 3.2k

Aged 33, earning 22k in London. It’s shit but I love my job so I have made my peace with it.

I was earning 30k ten years ago (outside London as well) and it was at 40k by the time I left that job, but I wasn’t enjoying it and decided to retrain.

I will feel much richer when I pay off the bastard loan I had to take out for my Masters!

25k ish for approx 26 hour week. It's fine. Not amazing but not terrible. I'm 37, will be unlikely to ever be able to afford to buy but main concern is my deteriorating health means I'm unlikely to be able to stay in work much longer.

38, £32k, I work in professional role in the public sector which demands years of experience (which I have). I work FT.

I am in my mid-twenties and earn just over £52k in a fairly specialised field. Crippled by multiple debts from being a student/getting on property ladder etc. DP is my age on £25k.

There are plenty of people here earning over 50K. To many people (including me) that's a very, very comfortable wage. Over 100K is something the average wage earner can only dream of.

I only have a disability benefit, £142 a week. DH is on around 24-25K. He's in his 40s with a degree.
We're comfortable, but there are times we could do with more.

The question was 'what do you earn?'. Why is everyone going on about what their partners earn??

Apart from silva no, I don't think high figures have been mentioned. £100k isn't particularly high in today's money. I

This thread is comedy gold.

30k, 28, feeling very lucky as I was unemployed for several years apart from odd bits of contract work. I work from home and I have a degree but it's not relevant to my current job, two completely different areas (degree was in the arts now doing software development)

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140k with another 140k bonus potential which I was lucky enough to get this year

I work in retail Head office

Sunbeam I went on about what my husband earned as well as me as it's family money, and in my house we don't differentiate it.

I Interpreted the question as 'You' plural.

Zero (Uni).