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.

Shall I just start a thread where people argue how blue the sky is? Or perhaps one where we debate over how many stars we can see in the sky from where we live.

Salary threads are bloody pointless.

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

Thanks. I earn less than 25k for my full time job

Haven’t RTFT.
£80k would be high.
Below £25k low for someone in their 30s- I think minimum wage works out as around £18k full time.

25k is quite well paid for a full time admin role in Scotland anyway. Most are 16-18k or there abouts depending on salary. 25k isnt even an entry level salary in may professional roles so you are very uninformed OP. Id say good salary is 30k +. Im on 25k and my husband is on 37k and together we outearn alot of our peers and live very comfortably and a 'nice' lifestyle . Perhaps we live in a shithole area compared to you though 🙄

50k. I’ve never earned more than 25k

I'm older than your stated age range and as a TA, I do work 'part time' - in my case 29 hours a week. Or rather, I am paid for 29 hours a week. Like most education staff, I do work more than my contracted hours. I am also only paid for a total of 44 weeks per year [term plus 5 weeks holiday). My salary has a FTE of £17500.
I think 50k plus is a high salary. I live in london.

[quote Donoteatthekittens]And 30% of children in the U.K. live in poverty.

“Households with an income less than 60 per cent of the UK average (£29,600 as of last year) are in poverty, according to the Government. That means families earning £17,760 or less are defined as living in relative poverty.”

www.bigissue.com/latest/child-poverty-in-the-uk-the-definitions-details-causes-and-consequences/[/quote]
As long as both parents (or one parent in a single parent family) are working the mandated minimum hours then they will be topped up by benefits.

I’m in the north and a decent wage here is between 21 and 30k and a high wage
Is 30k upwards.

@CharlotteRose90 that is my assumption too

CharlotteRose90

The north is a big place. Where I am 30k is average.

In fact, I've just double checked and the UK average is £38.5k and the average where I live is £40k

I don't think about it

@Updatemate

In fact, I've just double checked and the UK average is £38.5k and the average where I live is £40k

The UK average is £38.5k??

Most people I know are on way less than £30k.

@Updatemate

In fact, I've just double checked and the UK average is £38.5k and the average where I live is £40k

where have you 'double checked' that from? Because the ONS statistic I found which you'd think would be the most reliable source (you know being the govts official statistic organisation) says a lot less?

Frosty, I never interpret these emojis properly. Are you saying you don’t believe the Statistics?

Do you really know people’s salaries? I ear twice what my best friend earns, she lives in a much nicer house and drives a flashy car. We work in the same place and that is the only way I know.

Most people looking at me would guess I earn much, much less.

Do people, tell you what they earn?

www.plumplot.co.uk/Greater-Manchester-salary-and-unemployment.html

@CharlotteRose90

I’m in the north and a decent wage here is between 21 and 30k and a high wage Is 30k upwards.

"The North" is a vast region. £30k isn't high in my bit of The North. It's about average, I'd say.

Vassal, the difference may be between average and median?

The figures quoted to date on his thread have been median - this is average (mean).

I am sure updatemate will give the link.

You seem quite cross so sorry if you know this🙂

Sorry, she already did

Over 200k

Anything over £100,000 I consider high

@dugee not all.
My husband earns £30k per year. I will earn around £7k this year. So that’s a total of £37k per year coming into our household.

Benefits have a “cap” of £20k per year, regardless of the amount we work. We are entitled to only child benefits (which doesn’t cover 2 days of childcare where we live) and I am constantly scared I will not be able to claim 30hrs entitlement next month because covid has crushed my earning potential. So actually, those who are “topped up” by benefits are often working minimum hours and bringing in more than me and my husband despite us working 40hour weeks.

I would consider a high wage to be a single salary that a family can live on where they could afford mortgage payments for a nice 4 bed house with a 10% deposit. This would be 300+ In some parts of london but in other parts of the UK would be considerably lower (perhaps 40-50k?)

Over 50k . Anything over 100k seems unimaginable for me .

It’s all relative.