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

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

Couple of options if its a genuine question:

a) look at the granular stats freely available from the ONS, collected from a range of verified sources

b) as self selected set of anonymous posters on the internet who may or may not be inventing answers

Gosh its a stumper, which would anyone use to get genuine answers?

Around £180k (both earn about the same). South East (Hampshire)

About 75k (2 adults - DH full time and I work 3 days, and 1 toddler), in the midlands.

350k gross in London joint incomes. Both work full time, in our 40s, two children with another on way. Both work full time, WFH 2-3 days a week.

I read that as satire.

Single parent and earn about 40K gross so 30 after tax, plus maintenance and child benefit that add a few K a year. I'm lucky to have a fairly manageable mortgage, but the cost of living increases have made things much tighter.

I do think there's a massive divide. Of course its a range not just two ends of a scale, but loads of jobs pay minimum wage and that means about £20K a year. While lots earn more than 10x that and that's not even the proper rolling in it rich. It's not good for social cohesion, health, mental health or education.

About £120k a year - one employed adult and one self employed. I also recieved £190k over a couple of years from a couple of private sources. Would not get this every year.

If it was, then I apologise.

I'm fine with people earning lots, it's tax dodgers I take issue with.

The wealth divide is between the super rich and the rest of us.

Oh yes. Tax is for the little people.

i need to gold plate my Bentley. Can’t do that if the government steal my money and spend it on frivolous things like ‘education’ and ‘health’

this is really depressing me.. as I'm unwell, work a tough job and I'm alone.
About 10-11 k a year .. paid hourly not salaried so weeks can varied.
i have to live v frugally and often use food banks

£80k in the NW, DH and I earn the same. We have no travel/ commuting costs and low outgoings and feel very comfortable.

I earn around £50k (less last year, more this year just about). I'm a lone parent, no other income. I find it annoying that my tax is not calculated off household income, but my sole salary as an individual, as this penalises my household. My salary is fine for my outgoings though, need to rein it a bit at the moment.

Lone parent so just one income. Including universal credit and child benefit, around £28k after tax and pension. Live in the east midlands in social housing so I don't struggle day to day (rent is £500pm) but I don't have any assets to my name, I can't afford to buy a house.

56k approx between 2 adults, 1 young child and a cat. Pets are expensive but worth it. 😀

£120k both full time.

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Using household income is stupid. Instead, they should have the option to add two incomes together.

Or an even better idea would be a household tax allowance rather than an individual one. We pay a lot of tax for our household income because 1 person is in the 40% tax bracket.

Household income is around 60k which after housing costs puts us as better off than 68% of the population after housing costs; however that is not actually accurate as we pay way more tax than if we earned the same income but divided equally between us (eg 30k each vs 45k and 15k) and we also have childcare costs.

Also; we live in a low-cost part of the country. So that has skewed things as well.

Literally just posted the same thing! I do have a partner; but they work part time in a relatively poorly paid job and I work full-time in a relatively well paying job. We pay waaay more tax than if our salaries were more equal but still totalled the same amount.

Zero hours worker, £80 per hour. Work hard, but take months off every year or two as I'll never be able to retire.
Changed my ways after a friend sold his business at 50 for tens of millions and was dead within twelve months.
They're still not putting pockets in those shrouds.

£37k before tax. About £25k take home pay after tax/ NI/ student loan etc. Only me, one working adult, in the household.

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£120k-ish before tax, about £87k after tax, pretty much right in the middle of the Midlands. Both full-time working from home, plus a handy passive income from owning a consistently popular-ish website (just from ads).

2.5m but work very hard & long hours. We are super cautious though so live in a 400k house mortgage free & save most of our salary.

I have literally no idea since I don't know my salary off the top of my head.