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.

£30,000-£50,000- good salary
£50,000-£70,000- average depending on location (great salary)
£70,000 + high salary imo.

Anything over 35k would be high to me
I’ve brought up 2 DC as a lone parent with a big mortgage on far less

Completely depends where you live!

£100k plus (not in London)

@minimummies

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

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You know the people who teach your kids? They start on £16-18k. Nurses on £24k.

To me, a high salary is over £50k. I know quite a lot of people who make that, or will do soon, and their lives are aeons away from our lives growing up, with a single mum on £11k a year (full time, OP, although I imagine you'd be unable to even comprehend such a thing).

If you're a higher rate tax payer (13% ish of the country) you're statistically earning more than the majority of people. So I'd say that was high.

Under £20k is low, £20-£35k is okay, £35-£55k is good and £55k+ is excellent
In my industry over £30k is the dream!

When I was 25 I made £18k and we lived like kings. I’d consider that a low salary now because it doesn’t meet our needs.

My perception of a high salary has changed as our lifestyle has changed. When I was 30, earning what we do now seemed like a pipe dream, like it would solve all of our problems.

Spoiler alert: it didn’t.

@JM10

Do people seriously think you have to be on 100k, 200k, 250k to have a good salary?! You three clearly live in a differ6world to most of the rest of us.

I honestly can't believe that anyone thinks any role under 25k is extremely low and probably would need to be part time.

Agree..even here in the South East that is money that the average person can only dream of!

Why do people care so much about what other people earn??? I don’t get the obsession.

i live in the Midlands. I'd think 30k would be decent, 40k good, 50k great.

@Meatbadger

What is the point of this thread? From a quick Google you can easily see that most people don’t earn upwards of £25k.

But this isn’t true is it?

If we are talking about full time adults in their thirties.

@minimummies

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

A full time newly qualified nurse makes under that.

@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.

North and south it’s like comparing apples and cucumbers.

Houses in the south are far more expensive than the north. So £100k in the north would get you far more than the south

Where I live anything over 30k is deemed to be high. My partner is in a highly skilled job and many deem him to have a low wage at 20k.
But surely wage levels doesn't mater, my sister (London) is on a wage that's over 3 times, if not four, times a full time wage here, but she gets no more for her money than we do.

In OP’s defence she was asking about women in their thirties.

A newly qualified nurse (male and female) will more likely be in their twenties and in a lower earning bracket.

Average salary jumps quite significantly for twenties to thirties.

For women from about £24k to £30k.

I suppose its all relative.

Quick read of this gives an idea of how much those with brains who are happy to work 100 hour weeks in a high stress environment but who don't want to be doctors can earn in their first 3 years at an investment bank.

www.efinancialcareers.co.uk/news/2018/03/banking-salaries-and-bonuses

DH is on £50k per annum. We own a 4 bed detached house in the north. Our mortgage is £500 a month so we save over £1000 a month. Not a bad standard of living in the north.

Don’t think we’d save much if we bought our exact house in the south..... so our standard of living is much better and DH salary means I can work part time

£100k was considered a good salary 20 years ago when DH hit that. Salaries don’t seem to have gone up all that much on average for many years except in investment banking where you do pretty much have to give up any semblance of normal life in exchange, and I personally don’t think that it’s worth it to be always striving for the big bucks. You can have a perfectly comfortable life without it.

£55k upwards.

Only read the first part of this thread and it is so insulting. Salary does not signify worth in life or importance of role. Many of the key roles we are now depending on are on the lower end of the scale!

High salary is someone paying higher tax rate which is 50k plus

@minimummies

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

whereas back in reality...

In the area I'm in £35k+ you're doing well and £45k and up I consider a high earner.

For people in the SE I would think differently

I think of £100kplus to be high abd 250k plus as mega rich!

I'm on 35k and always thought that was decent to be honest. Not high, but decent. My hubby is on 90k and I'd consider that a high wage.