To ask what YOU think a high salary is?

[minimummies]

Going off the back of the salary thread and the savings threads. A lot of people are aghast at the wages and say that ppl are lying!

What do you think is a high wage for say a woman in their 30's?!
Would you say differently for a man?

I think anything over 100k is a high wage for either. 25-35k would be low imo and anything in the middle would be a good salary.

It so depends on where you are. I just googled the below:

San Francisco: Median household income $96,265, middle-class income range $64,177 to $192,530. Oakland: Median household income $63,251, middle-class income range $42,167 to $126,502. San Jose: Median household income $96,662, middle-class income range $64,441 to $193,324. Feb 25, 2019.

I've worked for 40 years and hire people, and still think 100k is a good salary, but it seems that's not quite true. Ridiculous.

Im looking now for high level admin job most full time roles here are paying £18000- 19000 and thats for roles looking for quite a lot of experience and often 40 hr week

Oh and in my forties but be lucky if I can get a job for 20 k in the current climate

South east bias - assume full time

• Under 20k v low, but likely to be topped up by benefits if have children rent which takes it up to 40k equiv

• 20-30k low, and pointless unless single, because benefits that are tapered away would mean it makes very little difference

30-40k - average - you still may be ‘better off on benefits’

40-50k - decent - getting to the ‘out of the benefit trap’ level.

50-65k - good, though shouldn’t be higher rate taxed imho.

65-80k - v good. The threshold level for a high salary, and where the higher rate band should start

80k -120k - excellent

120k+ - superb

200k+ - great.

I sit in the excellent bracket, full time. But work part time which takes me down to the good bracket. because I was being taxed at higher rate on that extra money anyway, it feels a good trade off.

That great was a mistake! Should read - awesome

@Eaststreet

I don’t think gender/sex is relevant. I know men on 20k and I know women on 200k. Outside London 100k I would consider to be good.

I am sure you knw many individuals who earn all sorts, male or female, nonetheless gender most definitely is relevant when discussing average salaries. There is a gender pay gap and women earn on average less than men do. You can argue about the reasons for it but not the fact of it.

Since average salaries for women are lower than for men, a 'high' salary for a women is defacto lower than for a man. (by high salary I mean in the literal sense that it is much higher than the average, not in the 'value laden sense' of what an individual judges to be a high )
salary based on their experience and what they see around them)

As to the op, it is clear that a high salary would be one over the average, which would be anything over about £35K. I'd say a very high salary would be more like 50-60K. From the government figures, this seems about right
In the year ending March 2019, the average (median) annual household income in each quintile before housing costs were paid was:
top quintile: £54,000.
second highest quintile: £35,700.
middle quintile: £26,800.
second lowest quintile: £20,500.
bottom quintile: £13,300.

I hate these threads so boring serve no purpose. What does it matter its all relative to your lifestyle.
Yeah maybe I shouldn't have read it so I'll bugger off now.

[quote minimummies]Anyone I know in less than 25k in their 30's works part time!! If they were in their 20's and starting out in a career then yes full time at

I've found this really interesting and it's made me reflect on my own views and the situations of my friends. My view is that £50k is a high salary (particularly in my mind linked to being a higher rate taxpayer), and £100k is an exceptional salary.

whoamongstu - with a single mum on £11k a year (full time, OP, although I imagine you'd be unable to even comprehend such a thing). was this quite a few years ago? I hope it was, as that works out at £5.56ph for a 38h week.

(I need to find a way to stop worrying about others Struggling to manage; I hop e you are ok.)

In my local authority, the median salary is about £27.5k. Estimating the 90th centile from ASHE Table 8 (ONS) gives about £46k. That means around 90% of people in my town earn less than that.

I'm very lucky - I earn over that 90th centile. But because I move in circles with other people with jobs fairly like mine, it doesn't feel that way. So I have to be really careful to remind myself that the circles I move in are not representative.

In the town I'm in 35k is a really good wage, you could buy a house on your own on that, in a not too bad area in a decent state with a garden.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

In london & the south east i would consider the following for a man or woman in 30s: High: 80k and over Mid: 40 -80k Low: 20-40k Very low: under 20k

If someone worked part time out of choice I would bracket their income on what the annual salary would be working full time.

This is how I see it too. However, if I lived in the regions where I grew up, I’d consider anything over 40k a high salary (it certainly would go further than it goes in London and SE).

It’s relative to profession really. If you’re in a professional role, in that you need a degree etc to get into it, I’d say I’d expect the low end for an entry level job would be about £25,000. I would consider a high salary outside London/SE would be £75,000 plus. In London, £100,000 plus would be high.

The average lending criteria for a mortgage is usually 3.5 times your salary. I don’t know anywhere in the south east, or indeed the south west, where you could buy a house for £100,000 or less. No experience in the midlands or north, but we’ve been looking at homes in the south and haven’t been able to find anything 2 bed + for less than £250,000.

www.compareyourincome.org

6 figures...min 100k + bonus (in London) would be high to me... but then as your salary increases so do your expenses and also your wanting for nicer things in life ... once you're on it you'll start thinking it's not enough for your lifestyle

DH's and my income, combined, comes to around 60k. I feel that we're average, rather than low earners. As a household I'd consider ourselves "comfortable" but that's mainly because our mortgage is only 15% of our monthly take home. If we'd had to get on the property ladder now, instead of back in the early 90s, we'd probably be struggling to own any house on this income. Salaries have not kept pace with property prices. I feel sorry for people trying to start out now God I sound old!!

I would consider anything over 25000 a year a high salary. I really don't know where these average salary figures seem to come from.

I think an average salary is more like 15000-20000 full time. I would class 40000 as very well off. As for 100000 a year, is that not like for those incredibly high up like the prime minister?

I'm in the east of England. How anyone ever affords a house is beyond me. But of course I know they must. I just don't seem to see how any of this is possible.

£50k, only because I remember finding out that's what my Dad earned when I was 10 and I couldn't believe how much money it was 😂

Over 200k I would think is high.

Under 50k I feel is low.

I’m in SE just on outskirts of Greater London and to me anything over £50k is a high salary for 30’s

An average salary around here is £35-40k

@Mynextname the prime minister’s salary is £79k

I'd say £60k+ is a very good wage for someone in their 30s.

Oh and I'm in my 30s and a ull time TA earning £14k. I must live in a cardboard box right?

I am a graduate but on a zero hours contract doing a graduate only role.

I would genuinely love to know how to kove into a 35-40k "average job."!

Average is around 36k in the UK. Adjusted for living area (we’re south-east), I think 50-60k is a good wage for someone with a family and another working parent. 80-100k is a ‘very good’ wage.