To ask your yearly household income?

[Sfuandtired]

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

Ok.

150k a month.

I'm one of five, and we're all a bit 'rich'.

My younger brothers do 400k a year.

My oldest sister mebbe over a million a year.

We not that great.

We're OK.

340 per year. But our mortgage is £4000!

Me circa £160 k
DH circa £100k

Take home £9,000 a month Kent
Mortgage £2,000
DC at Uni £1,500
DC at home £500
Other household bills £1,000
Personal spending money ( including clothes, professional subscriptions, travel, holidays, hair cuts, presents etc) £1,000 each

Leaving £1,000 each for longterm savings on a good month.

Gosh that was eye opening

440K before tax. Both work in tech. 1 remote, 1 in office. 2 kids. Lucky but feels precarious as I don't like my job.

Just over £53k. Single parent with two children. I'm a homeowner with a sizeable mortgage in the SE. Very little savings as everything went on the house after my divorce.

Posts like this always make me realise that I must do a great job of budgeting as I feel like I get a lot more out of our salaries than others. Realise we're fortunate to be in the upper bands earning wise. Jointly we're on £160k with potential for additional £10k bonus. After putting around £3.5k into pensions between us and car on salary sacrifice scheme, we take home around £7k. I also pay various insurances and sharesave schemes from my salary.

Mortgage £1400 p/m on a nice 4 bed in a Scottish city suburb. Drive 1 electric car on a lease but when that's up we'll buy used and try and get a good 6 years out of it.

DS starting private school this year and DD once she reaches secondary.

We get around 3 holidays a year, one abroad.

I think some of the figures these posters are giving are bullshit. We take home less than a lot of these posts and are still the top 95% according to that survey.

Can I please ask… What are the jobs that earn over 100k each? I’d like to sign up please!

I’m on 21k (work in healthcare) and husband on 38k and we live in London. We are renting with 4 kids. Both of us work 12hr shifts.

Do I need to work in tech or finance to earn some of those high figures? If so…. Are there any apprenticeships going?

I’m not sure many people get out of their tax bill. I’ve just paid mine and it was £50k.
It stings for a moment then I give my head a violent wobble. I’d happily pay more tax if the government targeted me. However I know plenty of private schools are taking action against the anticipated VAT on fees. People don’t like paying lots of tax.

@AnaMRT are you a nurse? If so look into clinical research. Once you transition to industry in a clinical research role the money easily doubles and it's generally flexible and from home.

I’ll look into that! Thank you so much for the tip @Maicon I’m not a nurse but I work with midwives and doctors. I want to progress and do further study but it’s so disheartening as the salaries are so small compared to the cost of living in London. Would love to be able to own a home one day as we’ve been saving for years but the prices are ridiculous in London. Seeing the blood sweat and tears the midwives endure and just the sheer amount of stress compared to the pay is very disheartening. However there is a lot of job satisfaction as it’s lovely to be able to make a difference to people in their time of need. I’m thinking ahead and my body won’t be able to handle the 12 hr shifts for the next 40 years so will definitely looking to clinical research. Thanks once again!

@AnaMRT look for 'clinical research coordinator' 'clinical research assistant'. Both will be entry level positions but most will require some sort of uni degree. Next step up is 'clinical research associate' and the money starts to go up quickly from there. You can work in medical devices or pharma if you want the leap to industry. You need to be able to flexibly work with lots of big ego consultants. Lots and lots of Health Care workers transition to clinical research for the same reasons as you. Good luck!

What do you do @Blindsided12?

If you hate it you can probably seague.

That's quite interesting, it says I'm better off than 65% of the population. Doesn't feel like it mind you but I suppose if I didn't have debts and bills and just a mortgage and council tax I'd actually have quite a bit of money.

What’s his specialty?

Just do a search and you'll see there's a thread on this subject approximately once a month. I suspect they're also often started by journalists.

Around 90k pretax from both working full time. Side hustle varies (we reinvest a lot) last year we took 9k out. We are the lowest paid amongst our friends and live about as far north as you can get before Scotland. Housing is cheap so we don't struggle and we renovate so don't have a massive mortgage for the house size.

@Maicon thanks so much! Will definitely do some research into this. I do have (an unrelated) degree from a good university in London. Was looking into possibly doing a degree apprenticeship in OT or Speech and Language Therapy as that would be rewarding but I also need to consider my big family and hopefully eventually getting on the ladder. Thanks once again for all the information!

I find these figures misleading. We earn the least of all the parents we know.

Seems a little intrusive ! Surely people will just say random things anyway.

@AnaMRT You'll be fine if you have a degree. All you need now is some experience. If you struggle to find a job that will take you on straight away speak to the medical students or PhD students about their research projects and see if they need some help. Let it be known to the consultants that you'd be willing to help with consenting patients for trials etc. I work with people who have degrees in physics, English, art etc. It honestly doesn't matter. A degree + experience + the right personality is what you need.

@Maicon amazing! Thanks so much I really appreciate you taking the time. I will look into getting some experience before I apply for any jobs. I know a wonderful clinical research midwife so I’ll speak to her about it and if I can (shadow/help) her on my days off as well. The consultants in my Trust are wonderful so I’ll speak to them too! Thank you once again!

70k per year pensions.

That's Numberwang!