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.

I earned £50k in my 30s pre children and felt very comfortable. I don't think I'll ever earn it again sadly

I’m in my mid-late 30s and don’t think any of my friends are earning more than 50k. Possibly one, who is quite senior in a construction firm, but she is the sole earner so as a household they are not particularly well off. We went to grammar school but are almost all working in the public sector so maybe that’s why. Or the rich ones don’t want to mix with me

Anything over £75k is a high wage to me.

I'm north east and earn a little under £35,000 and think I earn a good salry. Up here I think anything over £55/£60 is really good. I work closely with people who earn £60-£80 and I can see what that money earns.

London - over £100k to be “high”

Outside London, over £70k to be “high”

Obviously I appreciate average is a lot less. But if someone described someone as “he/she works in the City and earns a high salary” I’d be thinking over 100k

@Worthless90s I have already stated I earn 25k so no wealth here!!

I think anything over 100k is high but that can be spent if you have a large house and lots of children without being all that extravagant.

[quote minimummies]@Worthless90s I have already stated I earn 25k so no wealth here!![/quote]
No you hadn't stated that on this thread. You claimed to be on a low wage but also said that you considered £25k-£35k to be a low wage.

I won’t even think about getting out of bed for less than 50K of used bank notes. I take the all the risk.. 😉

I'm in my 30's and I've never earned more than £13k a year. Worked as a teaching assistant for years. Finally getting round to my teacher training, I would consider anything under £17k low and anything over £35k high. One day I'd like a combined household income of £50k and I'd consider us very wealthy indeed!

Another weirdo here who doesn't know how much any of her friends earn. I don't care so it's never occurred to me to ask.

I think anything north of £30K is pretty good, but if you're supporting a family (especially on one wage) then £40k + is probably required to be more comfortable. Outside London!

I'd say £45K+ is quite high. I live very comfortably as a single person no dependents on £50K.

Not going to exactly answer the OP's question but just wanted to say that most admin staff in the NHS earn less than £25k (if you're not a more senior manager). So according to a lot of people on here most of my friends are on low salaries whereas I think we'd say we were in the "norm". Then I also had the thought that vets quite early in their careers earn around the £30k or just over mark -be and everyone thinks vets are really well paid. So quite honestly - the whole thing's down to perception

No one with children receives under average pay though, when you take benefits into account. I have a friend who is a single mum, she earns 12k and receives another 12k per annum in benefits. That's the equivalent of being on 28/29k gross.

You don't have to discuss actual salaries to get a benchmark of what people earn. If someone doesn't get child benefit or 30 hours you get a clue.

Under 25k to me would be extremely low and I would expect it to be a part time role if I'm honest.

😴 idiot

Under £20k low
£21-29k average
£30-40k good
£41-49k nice
£50-60k very good
£61-£80 Excellent
£81k + Comfortable

It makes a huge difference if just one salary or two. DH is very good, I am nice but together we are very comfortable. However if one of us lost our jobs we would have to dip into savings.

@chestnutshell

I'm pretty happy with my overall package. I could get more £s in the private sector but I live pretty comfortably on my £53k salary in the north and I actually have the time to enjoy it.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland I qualified as an ACA last March and I am on £29K so it really is relative to where you are..

@experimentnumber626

I'm in my 30's and I've never earned more than £13k a year. Worked as a teaching assistant for years. Finally getting round to my teacher training, I would consider anything under £17k low and anything over £35k high. One day I'd like a combined household income of £50k and I'd consider us very wealthy indeed!

Anything below £17k is less than minimum wage. I Think we are mixing full time salaries with part time.

If you are earning £13k and working full time please look into minimum wage rules.

It totally depends on your personal situation surely? My sister and i both earn 6 figures. She is a single mother with no financial help from their long disappeared waste of space father. My dh earns 6 figures also. We are obviously more comfortable. She'd say a higher salary than hers is high, I'd probably say closer to mine.

I live in London and I am mid 30s and female and I earn £50k. Of my friends (95% female) I’m pretty sure none of them earn more than me, some earn less just due to part time working due to having children. I also have friends who are paid by the hour on zero hour contracts so concept of a salary is different for them.
I’m always surprised with online dating how many people tick the salary box for “35-50k” as I think that’s a good salary for London when so many people are living in poverty and having to use food banks.
So in answer to your question, I think over 30k is a good salary. Based on my social circle it’s higher for men as I don’t know any men who work part time post children but I know lots of women who do

@Invisiblewoman1

I live in London and I am mid 30s and female and I earn £50k. Of my friends (95% female) I’m pretty sure none of them earn more than me, some earn less just due to part time working due to having children. I also have friends who are paid by the hour on zero hour contracts so concept of a salary is different for them. I’m always surprised with online dating how many people tick the salary box for “35-50k” as I think that’s a good salary for London when so many people are living in poverty and having to use food banks. So in answer to your question, I think over 30k is a good salary. Based on my social circle it’s higher for men as I don’t know any men who work part time post children but I know lots of women who do

This is my experience too

I mid 30’s earn £50k

No friends earn more than that.
My DH earns less than £40k and he’s a degree educated professional with over 10 years experience

@Abcdeisarealname most GPs and hospital consultants are NOT on over 100k. Full time NHS consultants earn 105k max on NHS pay scales, after approx 15-20 years as a consultant. Bearing in mind it takes until mid 30s to become a consultant, that is in 50s at the earliest. You can easily google to check this.

GPs earn a huge range, depending upon being salaried/a partner and how much they work.

Not suggesting money isn’t good in medicine, just nothing like what the general public seems to think!

(Husband and I both nhs consultants, know loads of gps including 3 in wider family so we know a bit about this)