Would you consider £25k to be a good salary

[Sergio4]

I would. I live in London and would love to earn that much. Most of my friends living on London are on £20k or under (some have kids)

Your thoughts?

If you pay into a pension and student loan it's down to £1500 a month

If you could pay for everything you need to & not feel short-changed on it then it's a good salary. That's all that matters. Not what everyone else earns.

For me, yes !
My husband, no.
I'm a carer and he works in regulatory change management.

In london no i wouldnt consider it good

That’s a point actually. It’s only been this year we have been able to stop receiving top-up benefits and will be another year or two before we recieve enough to March what we were topped up to.

If your ‘good salary’ is only so because you get government support, I would question if that was a good salary

@TokenGinger Gwenhwyfar I’m educated to A Level standard, no degree, but my job only requests for a NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration, it doesn’t ask for my A Level certificates. My salary band is £28-35k. I’m an officer manager and PA to a Chief Executive within local government.

Something is very amiss when a PA/admin with no degree earns the same or as more as a teacher at the top of the basic scale, both public sector jobs

Not at all. I was earning that 15 years ago and it was enough to live on and afford a room in a flatshare, but I bet it isn't now!

It's double my salary. I'm a graduate but I've never been able to earn much.

@Sergio4 You've got loads of threads at the moment all really asking for the same thing (about finding a job and what is a decent salary.)

I think you'd get more help if a) you linked them all together in one forum on MN which was about money or employment and b) gave more info about yourself when you post so people could help you.

For example, a good salary for someone your age ( 1 yr post uni and you say you only work part time) and savings, is totally different from someone like me who is old enough to be your gran and has worked for over 40 years in professional roles.

If you are asking for help rather than just starting a debate argument you need to make this clear.

AbigailisFarty The North/South divide is just incredible, isn’t it? £250k here would buy you a detached, four bed house! My dad has a five bedroom converted bungalow, his garden is bigger than my entire land, and it’s valued at £350k when up for sale now. Absolute madness!

Depends on your age. If you are under 25 then it's Ok but not good, over 25 then no. You 're supposed to earn £1k for every year of your age.

AbigailisFarty - Oops, missed you’d tagged me in another post.

Completely agree re: teachers, nurses etc and their salaries. My role isn’t admin, as such though.

In fairness, I’ve downplayed my role there as I’m a step down from Senior Management, and I’m responsible and accountable for a lot. It’s difficult to explain my role without giving away personal details/my organisation’s details, but when applying for my role, relevant experience was preferable to qualifications.

Whilst I think I’m paid fairly (even though other Exec Assistants in our partner organisations earn 7-10k more than me - that’s too much!!), I don’t think a degree is required to do my role. I don’t think it’s a case of me being paid too highly for what I do (she says after a 14hr day yesterday), but that teachers, nurses and the like are not paid even nearly what they deserve.

Ifailed where did you get the housing benefit info from? I just used the calculator putting similar figures and got Nil.

You 're supposed to earn £1k for every year of your age.

Can you please tell my employer that, I haven't had a pay rise for 16 years. I wish I could dictate how much I earn, but it's not up to me.

Not in London.
But definitely yes to most elsewhere in England.

@fussychica I used this one www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/benefits-check

Ifailed I must be doing something wrong, still nil.

Not really.
I live in London and I think it's difficult to manage on that if you're on your own. Maybe if there's two of you on it but even so rent is expensive.

fussychica This is what I entered:
Single person, no kids private tenant. Put in a London postcode, in Lewisham.
aged 25, working 30+ hours a week.
No benefits, pension etc.
The results show no tax credits etc. but HB of £98 per week.

As a 23 y.o. grad renting a room in a shared flat/house, it's a decent starting salary

With a family, significantly more challenging.

Childminder @ £70 a day will be £15k for childcare for one child alone. Doesn't leave much for rent, bills, travel...

And obv as PP have said, depends on your sector, role, experience, market norms & industry benchmarking

What jobs are all you people who are saying it's not good doing?!

I work in the creative industries. Salary benchmark surveys are publicly available

For example

Cogs 2017 Digital Salary Benchmark for Londonn*

Depending on the discipline, £25k would be a typical salary for a junior role.

But as you rise through the ranks you would expect your salary to increase substantially, and for it to be commensurate with industry norms

In the SE I'd say...good for a youngish single person, low for a main earner with a SAHP or a single parent, good for the 2nd earner in a family.

Where I live now in a poorer area, 25k is a good salary and you can rent a one bed flat or buy a flat / house here.

In London I was on nearer to 40k but I couldn’t buy with that salary and if I didn’t live with DP it would have been a flat share - albeit a nice one.

A fifth of people earn less than the national living wage which I find depressing. Looking at the jobs around here, lots of minimum wage retail and tourism jobs, not much else.

No

I was on £25k when I was 24, and that was 13 years ago.

And I was outside of London