29.5k earnings who are you and how?!

[AtSea1979]

BBC reports today say the average salary in the UK is £29,500.

I earn 12k but i’m part time (otherwise 18k). I live in the north. I can only dream about earning nearly 30k. I’ve thought about retraining but I wouldn’t know where to start as the job market seems so difficult.

AIBU to think the majority of people earn much less and it’s just the minority fat cats pulled that figure up?

£31.5k Entry level management role in the South West.

This doesn’t go far in the Cotswolds, I’m always in my overdraft by pay day as a single renter and I’m not even extravagant; haven’t been on a holiday for years!

My partner a head chef in a posh restaurant earns 30k a year and 5k a year ( tips) I work part time as an administrator assistant I earns roughly 14 k ( south east)

When I was working 8 years ago I earned about £22k in an admin role in financial services.

DH earned about £30k as a newly qualified solicitor.

We live in Scotland.

Private healthcare provider in the midlands. I'm on £42.5k

OP, are you planning to continue part-time? I think it is hard to get well-paid part-time work, except for people who had already qualified and worked a while in a well-paid full-time job and then reduce their hours, so they have the contacts and experience to be able to negotiate to go part-time.

Earn a little more than that. Work in customer service. No gcse’s, no degree. I’m one of the lower earners in my group of friends (late 20’s). I’m not surprised £29k is average.

I'm 32 and earn circa £37k as a secondary teacher with additional responsibilities.

Decent salary but not mega high and in what I consider to be a 'normal' job.

Near London, financial services (in a support function) I am in my early thirties and earn £55k. Higher then average but I know many people who work in London who earn way more, so averages get dragged up.

The bbc article is imprecise- didn't say whether the average is mean or median.
According to the ONS, in 2018, Median full-time weekly earnings increased 3.5% compared with 2017, to £569.

So that 29k is median! Half of full time employees earn at least that.

I earn 33k public sector SE, DH 50k+ in London

Sales support manager - midlands and earn £41k
DH works in architecture and earns £55k

I think there are a lot of people earning below and a fair few earning more than the average. But there are more salary points above that mark than below

Neither of us have a degree either. And I’m only educated to GCSE level.

I'm on just over 30 after ten years in the NHS in the North West. I've got a degree but while my job isn't considered a graduate job, I have got two qualifications on the way.

My daughter is 22 and a department manager in a supermarket. She earns £29,000 and has A levels/BTechs. This is in the south.

I do an academic job requiring a higher degree and earn about £35k. My brothers a chef with no qualifications and earns about that figure (29.5). We’re in an expensive part of Scotland.

@user1493759849 lol yes it’s amusing and ridiculous at the same time. I’m planning to be a SAHM from next year, as it all becomes a bit daft earning a lot to then pay a lot to other people to do the things I don’t currently have time to do!

I may be wrong but just looking at PAYE doesn't tell you the true picture of what people earn does it?

What about people who are landlords & have income from that & i'm sure I read that 1 in 10 adults have a 2nd homes. Or those who inherit millions or living off investments. Or self employed people with their own companies who employ family/pay out dividends /liquidate the company/deductions etc

I'm on 29k. I'm a nurse working for a private healthcare company in the South East.

I earn more than that part time working in advertising in London. I'm sure there are people paying a load more than bring the average up.

To be honest, the only people I know who earn less than 30 k either have no qualifications, are very recent graduates, work very or had extended career breaks as SAHP (and consequently now basically have no qualifications).

I'm a teacher in a sixth form. I earn about that figure for a four day week (though work 'from home' unpaid on the day off). I'm 44 and have been teaching around 15 years. I think it's a decent (though not brilliant) salary and if I look at other jobs I could sidestep to, I would be earning probably half or 3/4 of what I do now.

That figure includes part time workers, the average full time wage is £35,400. I always get confused by the average household income only being £29,000, I'm not sure if that's a post tax figure as that always seems very low.

TBH I only know one person who earns above that but I live in an area that has one of the lowest salary averages in England and the cost of living reflects that in almost everything.

I’m in Scotland, working in public sector on £37,000.
26yr old DS works in finance and earns £50,000.

It really is different up North!

London salaries end up inflated as otherwise no one could live within commuting distance of their job.

My Dsis and her husband both have 30-50K jobs in London and feel its a struggle.

We live in the North on a single 50K salary in our household and basically feel like we live like kings off it!