To ask your yearly household income?

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Feel free to say I am being unreasonable and tell me to mind my own business, it’s a genuine question though, I’m interested in finding out if the wealth divide really is as big as it’s portrayed in the media and/or if I’m losing touch with reality.
I’ll start, ours is 60k after tax, 2 working adults and 2 children and I’d consider us to be in the average range. TIA

Oh same

Actually more like joint £160k-£180 depending on my freelance work. North. No mortgage.

Yours is the lifestyle I dream of

what do you do for work? I can’t see a reality where I’ll earn that much so please inspire me

39k gross for two adults and one child. One full time and one part time worker.

Disabled single parent on benefits! Can’t work due to my disability and it makes me feel awful looking at peoples income on here, especially when people say ‘I only earn 50k’.

That's not how statistics work, unless you can assume that being in a couple is not in any way correlated with income.

SAHM DH paid himself £155,00 in the last tax year , that's the most he's ever earned from his business.

30k just me as live alone. Luckily no mortgage so small outgoings

🙄

20K retired single woman.

73k
2 adults 4 children.
live month to month no savings lots of debt

800k last year earned by dh alone. He's just showed me his tax bill..

Can I add to that..do you accept begging letters? Asking for an old granny struggling to get by on £10k a year 😊

£70k gross, single parent to two kids. Feel like I'm constantly budgeting as large mortgage and bills. Two parents of £35k each would be much better off as two personal allowances and they'd get child benefit.

But such is life.

We're in the poorest 1% apparently. £65k, three kids, mortgage £790 per month.

DH (doctor/surgeon with his own clinic) makes about 1.4million a year and I think about 30% ends up his own after all costs are deducted. I make about 80K pre tax and 45K post, also self employed.

Obviously being MN, people will assume all high earners are lying fantasists because they think that rich people are so rare they can't possibly be spending their time on random online forums. Truth is, high earners are not that rare at all especially middle-aged people who have had decades to establish a career (core demographic here).

We don't live the "Instagram" lifestyle that people may assume you do in this bracket. We both drive cars that are over 10 yrs old. Our home is in a luxury new build but not big for 3 (900sqft). Our only splurges are holidays and private school for DD. We have split accounts and I pay for my own clothes/consumables and DH sends me 1K a month for household stuff like groceries, bills etc. I honestly don't know what he does with the rest of the money...usually invests all the excess back into his business.

Err, not 100% sure. About £10-15m. Don't pay much tax as we channel it through the Cayman Islands

This.

YABU asking strangers for such information.

https://backup.ons.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/01/Household-income-inequality-UK-financial-year-ending-2022.pdf has the data you requested.

I doubt it.

210

But you'll get everyone on here saying anyone over 20 is fabricating.

Don't be downhearted because you are not able to work. Living with a disability is hard enough, without comparing yourself to others, who are able to work. Society places too much value on how much a person is capable of earning.

Don’t be silly. Someone working full time on national minimum wage earns £18,900. How could you possible be in the lowest 1% of earners while that is the case?

Meanwhile, hospital waiting lists grow, schools are full of asbestos and RAAC, and people are going hungry.

Are you proud of yourselves?

80k before tax, I earn slightly over 40k and DH earns slightly below.

About 60k. We're both self-employed though so it varies each year.

No DC and we live in the north west.