To ask how much you earn

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How much do you earn per anum before tax? What is your current position/job/career? Do you enjoy it?

😂 at Oakenbeach!

I’d love to understand the psychology of why people lie and inflate their lives online. I find it hard to understand what the gains are. Especially on somewhere like MN where even if you oh so casually post £200k per year there’ll be other posters who match it and plenty of others doing just fine for themselves too. When you put your phone down you still have to inhabit your own reality.

I work pt as a complex title checker for a licensed conveyancers. Ft salary is £35,000.

I'm a solicitor but this was the only pt job I could find after having DS. I enjoy it for now as it's intellectually challenging. I'd like to move on to something a bit more overall challenging in a few years.

Oakenbeach wtf?

£20k nursery admin

£4 million per year

£1.27 per year

I don't think most people are lying on the thread. It's quite hard to lie so most people who do tend to get found out.

I don't think most people are lying on the thread. It's quite hard to lie so most people who do tend to get found out.

Is it? Seems fairly easy to say

"I'm 37 and earn £65k as an HR director for a fairly large firm. It's long hours but I get to work from home once or twice a week"

£120k in financial services. I'm mid-40s.

See? It's not a difficult thing to lie about.

I tihnk it is more interesting that some low paid people think high salaries are so unlikely that we must all be lying surely!

Well tbf, it's understandable given the amount of high earners posting in this thread. I just googled it and apparently 5% of uk taxpayers earn over 70k a year.

Now obviously I can't be bothered to trawl through this entire thread and count it up, but it feels like significantly more than 5% of replies stated more than 70k.

The possibilities are that mumsnet is particularly populated by high earners (I don't think that's true though), that high earners are more likely to reply to this thread (I'd say that's definitely partially true!), and/or people are lying (also probably partially true).

Basic of £250k senior management of FTSE 100 company - it's a lot, but I'm worth it

my main takeaway from this is that financial services are overpaid (I work in financial services).

You can earn big in IT (clients earning over £2m), sometimes in law (i have barrister clients earning >£1m). Or when you get to the level where you're on the gravy train - bonuses over the 250k mark, LTIPs ect.

It's still competitive, but morons earn quite a bit in our industry and would have to slog harder than they do.

Company owners also hide within the figures. I pay myself 40k into a pension every year, so does my husband. This hides our true earnings.

Moron's who can't type on their phone

So you can say what you like, and no-one will know if it's true unless you forget to change your user name like Oakenbeach

Pmsl that some thought I was too dumb to name-change.... I posted two polar opposites immediately after each other to illustrate the ease with which bollocks can, and almost certainly does, get posted on threads such as this.

about 75k gross with some benefits taking it to 79k.. like my job, but feels like pay cut compared to running my own business.. however hours and worklife balance is much better..

£400k. I work in oil, designing oil platforms.

I don't think most people are lying on the thread. It's quite hard to lie so most people who do tend to get found out.

IRL, yes, but on MN, lying is a piece of piss.

I don’t think most are lying (though they could be), just that MN is skewed towards higher earners, and that of those on MN, the higher earners are more likely to respond to this thread.

Otherwise, if this thread were representative, the average UK salary would pretty much be in six figures, which it clearly isn’t!

Company owners also hide within the figures. I pay myself 40k into a pension every year, so does my husband. This hides our true earnings.

Not just company owners... Being in the local government pension scheme my employer paid c.£20k into my pension last year over and above the 10% contribution from my salary.

Pmsl that some thought I was too dumb to name-change.... I posted two polar opposites immediately after each other to illustrate the ease with which bollocks can, and almost certainly does, get posted on threads such as this.

and didn’t bother to mention that’s what you were doing until well after people caught you out?

Took a while to come up with that explanation, Oak 😂

£150k - 4 day week - Finance

So out of the past 10 (serious) posts, 40% earn over 79k a year. Statistically what are the chances of the top 4% of earners posting like that?

Threads on mn always attract a bias
Whether it’s don’t have children or do
Or money
Or height
Any topic

Some people have said that Mumsnet attracts high fliers. Really? There are so many comments from stay at home mums, people struggling with benefits and money, and some really poor spelling and grammatical errors.

Just shy of 40k. Social housing on a very local level. Love being able to make a positive difference to someone's housing problem.