Is this classed as a ‘high earner’?

[Earnerlesr]

65k.

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

300 plus before you're considered a high earner 🤦‍♀️😂 How very Mumsnet.

OP, 65k would put you in the top 5% of earners in this country. Wealth is obviously a very different question to earnings.

Source: Institute for Fiscal Studies ifs.org.uk/tools_and_resources/where_do_you_fit_in#tool-results-section

It's top 10%. Generally, of course it's classed as being a high earner, by anyone with an ounce of common sense. By comparison with other adults in the UK you're doing very well indeed.

Yes and no, a single person with no kids probably lives very comfortably on that, a household’s sole earner with 4 children might not be that much better off than a family of 4 on UC after tax, student loans, childcare, rent and mortgage costs

No but it's all relative. I earn more but for some reason people here don't want to believe salaries are as they are. My EA is on 65.

300k?? Do people really earn that much??!!!

We're home counties and both me and my husband each earn over £100k. I'd consider us as high earners due to tax bracket.

Dear god people really live in their own bubbles don't they?
The national average salary is around £31k!
Lots of people earn 6 figure sums but shed loads more earn less than the national average!!

I wouldn't say a £65k salary puts someone in the "high earner" category, no. But it's a very decent salary nonetheless (and, incidentally, 3 times the highest full-time salary that I ever earned).

I think of a "high earner" as being someone whose salary is above £150k.

When people say high earner, I think £100k or more. £65k is good but not high.

Objectively speaking, that salary does make you a high earner. It would put you securely in the top decile of earners in the UK, so anyone suggesting that it isn't a high income is talking nonsense.

Of course, MN has a wealthy demographic and lots of people claim to be "average" or even "struggling" on 6 figure salaries. I can only assume that some people move within very restricted circles and genuinely don't realise how others outside their bubble actually live.

Whether people will agree with you that £65k makes you a high earner will probably depend on their own situation. As you will see, some people are wildly out of touch with reality!

It really is all relative.

A single person earning £150,000 with a small mortgage and no kids will have a lot more spare cash than a couple on a combined income of £300,000 with a large mortgage and 3 children in private school...

Classic mumsnet where the entirety of London earns at least 300k (I live there, own a flat, don’t know a single person earning above 60k). I would class it as a very good salary and 80k+ as high

@Fiddlersgreen yes of course they do…the ceo of the company I work for earns nearly a million a month!! No joke! Our site head takes home 300-400k. My manager is on 80-90k.

"Low end"! Fucking hell, educate yourself.

Don't be ridiculous. Most people earn between £25k and £30k. Open your eyes to the rest of the Uk not in your rich bubble.

Only on mumsnet lol

Absolutely it is in my view.

I mean min wage is what about £18k full time.

100%, pure shit 🤣

High tax payer but not high earner. I appreciate I am in a bubble where in my circle of friends and business acquaintances….the typical joint household income starts from £150 (at the low end)…..if single, starts from £120k and no none of us in London…

Yes it bloody does, I have a flat in one of the most desirable parts of North London, take multiple overseas holidays per year, never have to worry about bills and can buy what I want when I want.

But maybe my gratitude and sense of wealth is influenced by the fact I'm originally from one of the poorest parts of the country, and so I have a better grip of y'know.. reality.

Loads if time to post on MN at 22:59 earning 1000000000000000 a month

Of course £65k is a high earner.

I have loads of time and I still don't think I am high earner.

Well, I live in a rural county, and I’m thinking:

Council chief exec (on about £110k I believe)

We have a small general hospital - maybe 10 - 20 senior people there on that wage?

Head of the college and the largest secondary school could be on that much.

Probably a couple of judges.

I daresay there are business owners and landowners who are very wealthy, but I have no idea how many people like that there would be, and how much would just be ‘wealth’ rather than salary.

Its much higher than I earn. But when someone says high earner, I generally think of £109k plus.