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.

This will skew what I think is a high salary as a large chunk of our is taken up using a basic necessity

But it's not just a basic necessity. The basic necessity is somewhere to live. The extra cost of a location of your choosing is a luxury.

Spending all your money on housing in an expensive area is like buying a Ferrari. A car within your budget will equally achieve the

II'm looking at jobs in my area I could do and I've just looked at a mental healh education job with a caseload of people to support on a 6 week rolling basis. The fte salary is 22k.

Sorry pressed post too soon. Any car will get people from A to B, expensive ones are just nicer, faster, whatever. Same for choosing to live in expensive areas.

@Abcdeisarealname

I am in the midlands and £100,000 for a single earner would be almost unheard of

All your full time GPs, most hospital consultants and dentists will be on over £100k

Most consultants are on less than £100k, it hits that point after 14 years of service as a consultant - so aged 50+ in most specialties.

www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-contracts/pay/consultants-pay-scales/pay-scales-for-consultants-in-england

Some GP partners will be on over £100k, but again a lot of salaried GPs will not be.

Loads of pp's are completely missing my point here....yes it is my opinion! That is all! I didn't say what I said was absolute!

I specifically said ppl in their 30's as they would usually have at least 10years of a career under their belts!

I am aware of what the minimum wage is! I am aware of many professionals starting salaries...I was one myself!! And I am now part time on a low wage!! Yes a low wage IMO!

£250,000

@minimummies just as you're entitled to an opinion on what is high and low, we are allowed to have an opinion on you. In my opinion, you are ignorant.

Where i am from, over 25k is considered very good, over 35k would be considered high, over 50k, rich

I live in a low income area with relatively low property values however.

I earn 30k, a colleague in London doing the same job but making about 4k more for london rate weightings considers himself very low income.

@minimummies

Loads of pp's are completely missing my point here....yes it is my opinion! That is all! I didn't say what I said was absolute!

I specifically said ppl in their 30's as they would usually have at least 10years of a career under their belts!

I am aware of what the minimum wage is! I am aware of many professionals starting salaries...I was one myself!! And I am now part time on a low wage!! Yes a low wage IMO!

Your use of exclamation marks is a little excessive?

People talking about hospital consultant- talk what you know please.... I know someone about to be appointed on a contract which takes them to 86k (oncall entitlement) plus waiting list initiative which they will also do evenings and occasional free SPA on average twice a week which pays £500 per session so can easily top up salary by 1.5 -2k a month.

It really depends on the specialty you do especially if you do surgical Spevialty.

Specialty!*

I live in a very average part of the Midlands for expense of living.

Between 22-28, my salary rose from 18k to 36k. My DH similar.

In that time, we:

• saved for a 20% deposit on a 275k 3 bed house in a nice area
• paid 13k for our wedding plus 8k for our honeymoon
• mostly lived in city centre flats before buying
• went on several foreign holidays a year
• started pensions

And we didn't scrimp on every penny to do so, though we did shop around.

Basically - it's BS to label salaries in the 25k plus range "really low". You don't get unlimited life choices (for example, we'd have had a much harder time of it with kids), but in an average area you can live a nice life on those wages, especially as a couple.

We're now on salaries of 55k plus each, and have more money than we know what to do with, frankly. Most of it is siphoned into pensions and savings so that we can retire early.

@user85963842 hardly ignorant when I'm on a low wage myself. Plenty of pp's have stated what they think a low wage is...many agreed that low 20's is a low wage. Even those who earn that! It's JUST an opinion. Anyways...

Between my partner (full time Mw job) and me (self employed, fairly new) we earn about £29k
A year.

We manage fine with four kids and rent of £550 a month.

@Abcdeisarealname - I don’t think you actually know many doctors/dentists in real life - much less have seen their pay slips - cus they ain’t all earning 100k - has made me laugh though

I'd class over £50k as high, under £17k as low. I think the most common salary is around £20k isn't it, the peak of the curve?

I'm on just under £20k and I don't consider it low.

Why are there so, so threads about this? If money motivates you then push to earn it?? Find your ambition? Is this naval gazing because we have less distractions than normal?

I’m in London, in my early thirties and DH and I both earn around £150k each. I’d say I consider a high salary for someone my age anything over £80k and a low salary anything under £30k. That wouldn’t be true if I lived somewhere else in the country though.

Btw I consider over £100k as high

In london 60k is an average skilled professional salary for someone around 30. Probably closer to 70-80k for 40. That's for a professional job requiring a degree possibly post graduate degree or professional designation.

Based off that I'd say 80k is when it starts to become high.

You can see where your household income fits in here. www.ifs.org.uk/tools_and_resources/where_do_you_fit_in

@Keratinsmooth

Why are there so, so threads about this? If money motivates you then push to earn it?? Find your ambition? Is this naval gazing because we have less distractions than normal?

Maybe. I have noticed loads on here recently. I think this one is more balanced though as there are loads more posters on what I would consider average wages. The other threads have a lot of posters who are in higher income tax brackets.

Again I am going to defend OP. The word low seems be causing and emotional response.

Replace Low with below average and it becomes more reasonable. Just under £20k is well below average.

I do think for women we need to understand where we stand, particularly when the gender pay gap is so stubborn.

@Ideasplease322 £35k is not below average