Is this classed as a ‘high earner’?

[Earnerlesr]

65k.

And if it’s not, what figure starts to be classed as a high earner?

Not in the slightest - at least 6 figures.

No. That is not a high earner.

I would say - £300,000 plus? In the South.

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Well it's higher than mine, does that help.

It is a higher rate tax payer.

Not a high earner in London but I would say high earner everywhere else in the country.

Why the laugh face? £100,000 in London doesn't get you far, is certainly not a high earner. Same in the home counties.

Christ people on here live in a different world. Yes it’s a high earner. Not the highest, but high.

I wouldn’t say so. To me, £100-150,000 would be a high earner but this will depend on location etc. those in London, for example, would probably consider triple that to be a high earner.

It's top 10 per cent of earners in the UK, so I would say "higher" . But when people say "high" I do think they mean six figs

I suppose I’m trying to work out what the phrase means as it’s used a lot on here, on the news, in conversation etc

I mean... it's higher than the average salary and in the higher rate tax band.

But I when people tend to refer to someone as a "high earner" in conversation they're usually earning at least £100k in my experience.

It's all subjective tbf. Depends on where you live, general wage expectations where you live etc.

Not where I live. I would say £100k plus (perhaps £160k if a dual income household) is where you might start to be considered well off.

For tax paying reasons yes that it a high earner who is taxed at the higher rate. Mumsnet as a whole is very much not living in the real world when it comes to these things though so you will get some interesting answers.

Most people on here are full of shit 😂

Yes. But this is mn so await a thousand comments of I earn 500k and I don't feel a high earner at all type thing.

Average here. High is six figures minimum.
joint income of £120k here is pretty low end.

I think you are in the top 10%

So 9 in 10 people earn less than you

Which would be my definition of high earner

I live in the south east and I would class that as a high earner.

I earn 42k! I used 65k as that’s what I begin to class as high earning

Goodness me, yes I would say so!

How many jobs even pay £100,000+ outside of London?! I bet there are no more than about 50 people in my whole county earning that much.

Some people live in a bubble.

It's a decent salary but when I hear someone described as a high earner I would tend to assume £100K+

It does depend on age too though so for someone quite early in their career (20s, early 30s) then I would consider £65K a high salary

Yes, literally nobody in England earns more than £60,000 a year.

Loads of jobs do! I can't think there is a county that has fewer than 50 earning that ...

Mumsnet snobbery comes to mind with this thread...

The government takes away child benefit once you start earning over 50k so for the government purposes, 50k is a high earner. You can tell I am unhappy - 50k is not that much especially in London and I have to repay my child benefit because this is what they define high earner. Not fair!!!