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

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90k - both working, husband full time and myself 4 days a week.

we have 1 son who is 3. We have been lucky to not have to pay extortionate child care fees as we have parents who can help while we work. We sent him to nursery 3 days a week from the age of 2 but we now no longer have to pay that as he is entitled to government funded hours.

We are comfortable and quite well off for our area (N.W)

I know very well income of £350k is not rich level in London. Taxes being one reason and also very high costs in areas where you can feel safer. See house prices and services. If you want to send kids to private schools is about £30k per child.

The real divide is between multi millionaires, billionaires and the rest.

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I'm sorry but 350k yearly income is rich in London. I don't know anyone who makes that much. I live in London. It's ridiculous to say otherwise.

£42600. Nurse. Lone parent (zero maintenance). Two children age 12 and 15.

I hate these threads. Nobody ever comes out of it feeling good.And I don’t believe all the high salaries on here are genuine for a second, or if they are then I feel sorry for the posters who get their kicks swanking about how wealthy they are on mumsnet.

Clearly some answers are bullshit, but I don’t understand why you take issue with high earners, some folks earn little, some medium, some a lot, and I’d expect to see a range,

although for the life of me I can’t work out why folks are posting their income just as a random asked.

£48k . That's me and grown DD combined. Both work in admin. No dependants except two cats.

According to the ONS chart only about one in fifty of random people I meet should have a household income more than us..... but on Mumsnet threads like this it seems to be everyone! Equally in other threads everyone else seems to be choosing between heating and eating, so something is not right here?

£4! Get a life.

350k joint household income (DH in IT, me self-employed)

There is nothing about us that would ever make you think we have a higher income than whatever is average. We budget, save when we can (then it gets blown through for all sorts of reasons to be needing to save up again from zero) have 3 DCs, one at uni and one at private school due to learning difficulties.

We are on the outskirts of london and live in a modest terraced house on a quiet street. Drive 5 year old cars, can take 2-3 family holidays a year.

The one thing I believe this wage will afford us is early retirement (DH will have the option of moving to 2 days a week consulting or finishing entirely when 55) and we have investments ready for the kids when they need mortgage deposits.

Amongst friends we are in the middle of how people earn I would say.

According to the ONS chart only about one in fifty of random people I meet should have a household income more than us..... but on Mumsnet threads like this it seems to be everyone! Equally in other threads everyone else seems to be choosing between heating and eating, so something is not right here?

Why is it not right, people post on threads they are interested in? I like to travel so if I see a thread about holidays I’ll often post as well other travel enthusiasts. Income threads are the same or people who can’t afford hearing will attract other such posters.

My household income was just under 200k before retirement, lots of friends and obviously colleagues earned similar amounts. Why is is is so unbelievable that people can earn a high salary?

Why respond! Not got a gun to your head. So strange.

We have £55k a year coming in and it’s nowhere near enough. We private rent in the south. Drive an old banger that’s about to die. No savings. We will never own a home. We do have a large family to support though.

I don’t k ow how much you earn, but there is clearly a huge range here, plus there is I think about 10 million people on this site, so only a minute percentage posting.

Agree. My salary is between me, my boss and HR. Not some random on the Internet.

I also think some of these posts come across as quite smug and bragging.

I've read back through my post. Where do I say it is unbelievable?

Some people on this thread are so tone deaf. "Whatever is average". Average is about 70k combined income if both adults work full time. So you earn about 5 times the average.

Being able to have one child in private school, 2-3 holidays a year and early retirement plus investments for three children are all obvious markers that you're extremely well off. Get a grip.

@Agustus Senior UX designer for well know US software firm. I could change but do know I wouldn't get more money. Money definitely does not equal happiness, I can confidently say, if job satisfaction is low. Such a big part of one's life.

You do realise this is anonymous. How can it intrude?

Not sure why the face. Have you seen some of the responses , and I’m in London, lot of the responses are from the North.

For those with the thrifty gene who survive well on low incomes, there would seem to be some opportunities to earn something from the more time-pressured folk here who spend wastefully.
I'm confident that I spend £5k+ each year that I'm blissfully unaware of. Sometimes it's due to being consistent with personal values - loyalty to good causes or business start-ups - more often just because I cant be arsed to check alternatives.
I live close to where Jordon Cox became famous as 'The Coupon Kid' and remember him buying £600 of goods for charity for the princely sum of 4p, so
figure out what your 'special sauce' is, be able to articulate it (without giving the game away) and I think 2024 could offer a good side hustle.

Before tax our basic income is somewhere around £53k (one full time, one part time). That's not counting overtime and shift allowances we get though, so it's higher, but I've no idea how much we actually take home!

Yes there were several ridiculous posts on here but £350k even in London is pretty good going. Of course you are doing well.