How can you tell is someone is faking wealth?

[Teadrinker11]

When the hell is someone genuinely wealthy rather than just trying to be all flash but when in truth there's no real money behind the facade?

@PearPickingPorky

Tbh I would consider 6 figures high earning, and I also still don't really believe people earning 6 figure salaries would be on online forums especially considering the amount of people on her who claim that.. 🤷🏼‍♀️ if you earn £80k for example then you're in the top 5% of earners in the UK.. I just don't believe that the top 5% of earners in the country are all traipsing through Mumsnet

Why?

Most of these people will be corporate roles who are currently working from home. Perfect setup to spend some time here and there dickimg about on Mumsnet.

I don't think an 80k or low 6-figure salary would allow someone to be "wealthy" in the way that "wealthy" is being described on this thread. Not unless they've inherited their property/money or are old enough to have bought their first property 20+ years ago.

A 100k salary will net you approx 5k a month. A mortgage on a 500k house with a 10% deposit will be 2k per month. Bills will need about 1k or more, cars more again.

It doesn't actually leave that much, certainly not enough to live the sort of lifestyle people on here are considering "how the actually wealthy live".

Yes, I don't actually think £80k salary is THAT much, my point was, that if an £80k salary gets you into the top 5% of earners, then the majority of people do not earn £80k, which you yourself says isn't that much, so if the majority of people don't earn £80k then even less people earn 6 figures, so when there are threads where tonnes and tonnes of people are claiming to be 'incredibly high earners', I don't think it's unreasonable to conclude that some of those people are lying

@pateu

if you earn £80k for example then you're in the top 5% of earners in the UK.. I just don't believe that the top 5% of earners in the country are all traipsing through Mumsnet

The problem with the 5% of earners statistic is that's it's just for PAYE isn't it? Lots of high earners do not get paid that way

Lol, hi!

I don't think there is much point in women lying about earnings on Mumsnet. Quite a few of us do earn a fair bit. I never lie about things. Very often the things women say prove they are likely to earn what they do eg the lawyers (my field) who clearly have experience of the firms where those earnings are common or MN doctors where NHS salaries are public knowledge.

I agree I don't think people lie on here as much as some posters seem to think. If you can't release the urge to brag by offloading on an anonymous internet forum then where can you do it? Obviously not in real life as that's horribly vulgar (even though we're new money...)