Is this classed as a ‘high earner’?

[Earnerlesr]

65k.

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

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

This makes zero sense.

Spare cash is not the subject. The three individuals in this example (the single person and the two in a couple) if earninf £150k each are equal in the earning stakes.

Choosing to spend your money on expensive things makes no difference to your actual earnings.

£150k not £150…. but I do know I am in a tiny bubble and most people are not even close to “my bubbles average”…..

@Fiddlersgreen absolutely they do, and then some!

I think it is and I’m in (outer) London.

Just because it doesn’t go that far in London doesn’t mean it’s not a high salary - it’s well over average, is taxed at higher rate and precludes CB. So in that sense it’s classes as high.

Well I am on £793,000 a year and work 7 hours a week, so yeah that is a bit low for me @Earnerlesr

Over 100k for a high earner. 65k is a good enough income though.

Um yes. To me anyway. I have a min wage retail jobs

Its kind of relative. To me thats a high wage as im on £34k basic. I can earn more for unsociable hours, but my basic is £34k. So £65k to me in the north of England is a high wage and not one i would ever be able to achieve in my career. I imagine in London and surrounding areas its more middle income and high would be 100k +

It's more than double the average salary so based on that I'd say yeah it's high.

Will you be able to afford everything you want on it as the only earner in a household? Hell no. We'd just about pay our bills on that these days.

I think

Average - £30k
Above average £31k to 44k
Very good -£45 to 59k
Excellent £60 to 80k
Excellent plus - £81k to 99k
High earner - £100k

Only that much? My DC earns that as a starting salary. DH and I earn a million a month each and it doesn’t go far I tell you. May have to forego our annual Space X trip this year #costofliving

Doesn't it depend entirely on region? Salary is always looked at relative to property prices and living costs.

Not remotely. I'd say over 150k is what I'd consider a high earner. When people on here say I'm a high earner, this is what I imagine they earn. 10 years ago I'd have probably said 100k.

Yeah this is pretty much how I see it.

Too much to qualify for any help, not enough not to care.

It's easy to laugh at the "high earners, I am super rich me, I earn a lot less" when you conveniently forget all the state handouts you are getting.

Nah

The 300k person is full of shit though. The top 1% of income earners in the UK are on 150k +. It is possible that in the exact locale where she lives in the South, the top 0.01% of earners have somehow all congregated..... But not probable.

I did, however, use to live in a British millionaire/billionaire tax haven, outside of the UK. (Was born there, not one of the aforementioned billionaires.) That's where you tend to find such skewed figures.

just saying... doesn't take long to google what's on offer

but no one in the real world earns anywhere near an average salary apparently 🙄

With a household after tax income of £1178 per week, you have a higher income than around 97% of the population - equivalent to about 64 million individuals.

https://ifs.org.uk/tools_and_resources/where_do_you_fit_in#tool-results-section

While £65k is a good salary. It’s not like you actually have that much more money at the end of the day, because many people on low salaries get a lot of benefits, and child benefit, and the amount of tax you have to pay is quite high (especially in Scotland)

All those you have listed are public sector, which typically doesn’t pay as well as private sector. In your rural county you could easily have … a senior automotive engineer, a marketing director, a TV producer, a program manager, a cybersecurity consultant, a senior quality manager, a principal data scientist, a solution architect (just as a few examples)… all of whom would be on £100k plus.

Actually, loads of people in SW1X are on 100K+.

I think that is one of the problems in the UK - people who are high earners do not view themselves as high earners.

65K - is high earner - the idea that to be 'well off' you need over 120K as a joint income - is ridiculous.

65k is a great wage - I would consider it a high wage, however in this current climate if you are the only earner have mortgage/rent/bills/debt/ kids etc I could see how in some circumstances it might not be enough.
My DP and I have a combined income of 80k and live comfortably in London (we cannot wait to leave London mind) - although I realise for some on this website we are destitute povo’s and sometimes we do go to Lidl and not Waitrose (the horror!!!)

Only on mumsnet is 65,000 not a high earner. I saw a thread earlier where someone was earning 28,000 and was basically called a slacker and advised to get a better paying job to pay their way ! The mind boggles.