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.

you should be expecting, even demanding, as you get into your mid-30s and beyond to be earning 50k-ish in London, maybe a bit less outside.

And expecting or demanding a higher salary is just laughable.

Just about all teachers and nurses, and probably a lot of other people are educated and hard working, and most of those won't earn anywhere near £50k.

I'm sorry but I don't think this is true. Nurses are scandalously poorly paid, I agree. They're heroes and are doing the work for its intrinsic importance. So are some people who work in the charity sector or the arts. But I doubt most of the people on this thread are nurses.

The average salary of a teacher in London, according to Reed, is £44,157. That's the average across all ages. So presumably by the time you're in your late 30s/40s, my figure of 50k is about right. And, I agree, teachers are not well paid. They should be paid more. This isn't a super-duper amazing salary, that was my point. It's a reasonable expectation for someone with good qualifications who works full-time and is good at their job.

Over 70k is high (Midlands)
40-50 average
20-30 low depending on age

The average salary for a secondary school teacher in the UK is around £30k

I just re read my post - degree education isn’t be be all and end all- I should have said highly skilled not educated!

It’s okay to push for a bigger salary - to know your worth and negotiate for bigger salaries.

It’s also okay to not be motivated my money

@Comefromaway

I work for a successful construction firm. The very highest paid person on the company earns £48k.

That’s quite surprising as average salary for estimators and QS is between £60-80k at the moment

@coronafiona

Over 70k is high (Midlands) 40-50 average 20-30 low depending on age

I'm originally from the East Midlands. I would say 20-30K is average not low.

I’m surprised how little doctors get paid.
A salaried GP without overtime earns between £40-57k depending on how far brought the training they are

That’s an awful lot of student debt and years learning in a stressful and time poor environment for not much gains unless you end up becoming a partner

We don't employ any QS's. The end user employs the QS who sends out the specs/tenders. Our chief estimator is on £48k

Pineapples1980, £100k is high for London

No it's not.

Even the chief exec / managing director?

Why do people stay? It is is successful surely the senior team gets poached?

@hopsalong

On "over 50k is decent". By that I mean 'pretty good, solid if not great', as the OP seemed to intend. I obviously don't mean the borderline of poverty.

No privilege in my case. Lots of hard work, though. Working-class family, lived in a council house.

I'm also really not a high earner. I'm an academic. Maybe some of the people on this thread are quite a bit younger than me, but salaries are a feminist issue. If you're well-educated and hard working and aren't working in a career in the arts (often not full-time anyway) or for charity, then you should be expecting, even demanding, as you get into your mid-30s and beyond to be earning 50k-ish in London, maybe a bit less outside.

Unless you are privileged and inherit money, how otherwise do you afford to buy or rent somewhere to live big enough for a family? (If you saw my house, you wouldn't think I was minted! It's very ordinary and quite shabby.)

I'm an academic, nearing my mid-30s, and am not anywhere near 50k, nor do most of my immediate academic colleagues. Sure there are a few senior lecturers my age who might be earning that, but I'd say most people I know in their mid-30s are postdocs/research fellows/lecturers, who will be in Band 7, maybe the bottom end of Band 8.

I successfully negotiated my salary when starting my previous position (postdoc) and my current position. However, if I'd go in demanding £50k while all my direct colleagues are paid £35-£40k, I'd be laughed out of the room.

MD is the owner of the company. I'm only privy to payroll, not his personal dividends but I gather he invests most of the profits back into the company.

The chief estimator has been here for 25 years. Staff turnover is very low. The 2nd highest paid person left another company to come to us when his previous company was sold and taken over and working conditions became poor, he brought another couple of people with him who were unhappy. Lots more contacted us but we only took the best.

We are in the north west.

£100k and over.

@Ideasplease322

Even the chief exec / managing director?

Why do people stay? It is is successful surely the senior team gets poached?

Because it's not all about money! Presumably.

48k for an estimator in the NW is about right.

@Onedropbeat

I’m surprised how little doctors get paid. A salaried GP without overtime earns between £40-57k depending on how far brought the training they are

That’s an awful lot of student debt and years learning in a stressful and time poor environment for not much gains unless you end up becoming a partner

I didn't know this. I thought GPS were on 70k ish.

@Onedropbeat

I’m surprised how little doctors get paid. A salaried GP without overtime earns between £40-57k depending on how far brought the training they are

That’s an awful lot of student debt and years learning in a stressful and time poor environment for not much gains unless you end up becoming a partner

This is incorrect. The minimum.annual pay for a salaried full time GP, is £60k in England ex-London, a bit more more in London, Scotland and Wales, a bit less in NI, and many will do overtime or locum work too. Partners will have higher to much higher earnings.

This is all published, it's not just a matter of opinion... www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-contracts/pay/other-doctors-pay-scales/salaried-gps-pay-ranges

Yes I realise the information I have is quite out of date

£100k. At that salary you can just about get a mortgage on a 2 bed property in South East England.

Bear in mind that a brand new solicitor (ie one who has completed their training but has zero experience practicing as a solicitor) can earn £100k on day one at the top London firms.

40-60k

I consider a good salary about your age although I understand this gets harder as you get older! I’m 31 and on 33k so feel pretty proud of myself haha.

So in the construction form there is one person who could earn significantly more than £48k.

I know money isn’t everything - but if people are under valued by their employer then often they move on.

In this case I couldn’t understand how someone was being paid £48k to run what seems to be a relatively large and successful construction company. It would seem the person who runs it is t being paid £48k

I live in London and am mid to late thirties. I think a high salary for a woman is over £250k. I know lots of women earning over £100k but very few at that level.

Under 30k low wage. 30-45 average 45-75 well paid. Over 75 high. Although I think people who are low paid forget how much tax you pay in the higher brackets. Also no child benefit or benefits of any kind. Over 100k and you rapidly lose your tax free exemption. Obviously it's a nice problem to have but still to be taken into account.