Not an ordinary working person if you earn over 45k

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Disincentivising anyone to strive to earn over 45k a year is a bizarre strategy for growth i feel

Aibu?

Yep. Really pleased I got good grades, took on uni debt and worked hard...

Plenty of people do this and don’t earn over £45k. Working hard is not the same as earning a lot.

Have I missed something? Most people I know earn over £45k

Agreed. They’re attempting to demonise the middle class when really they should be targeting the extremely wealthy. Earning under 100k a year is not wealthy.

Is this to do with the government?

Who has said this?

45k is apparently being used as the internal benchmark in gvmnt to keep to their "no tax increases for working persons" pledge. The directive in the treasury is to find ways to extract more tax from anyone earning above

Exactly.

No, but most people work hard and try and progress their careers in order to earn more. And now they are being penalised for doing so.

This is correct. However, earning 45k is not ‘earning a lot’. It’s not a poor salary and well above minimum wage but it’s lower end professional range. It’s what an experienced teacher or physio might earn-or a highly qualified nurse. Maybe an accountant with a couple of year post qualification experience. Nothing outlandish and it doesn’t go far when you have a mortgage or nursery fees or kids at university.

FFS.

Thanks for explaining.

Madness. Every day this government gets worse.

I was on 45k two years after graduating, 17 years ago.

Its madness.

Plus, I’m really surprised the Labour Party don’t have their finger on the pulse of the ‘squeezed middle’ as I thought that was their target demographic since the emergence of Blair. Or is it now switched and the target demographic is a mixture of red wall, working poor and those tempted by Reform (many fitting into all 3) which statistically are those earning well under 45k a year?

I hit 45k in my mid 20s, alongside my first mortgage, i was not, by any stretch, wealthy. I was treading water.

Who are this government trying to appeal to?!

Should I not go into work tomorrow then seeing as apparently I’m not a working person?

People on Mumsnet think £60k is poverty. I’m in my 20s and earning just over £30k and that’s considered a good salary for a professional career.

Any fully qualified nurse or paramedic working full time (inc weekends and/or night-shift) will earn over £45k, not massively over, but still over.

Honestly, fuck knows at this point.

A classroom teacher with a few years under their belt earns about £45k. It’s not a small salary but it’s certainly not rich or a high earner.

I wish we could consider household income per head instead of single incomes. As usual, single parents will be penalised the most.

I earn over 45k because it's what I need to keep myself and my kids afloat as a single parent. An increase in income tax would hit hard in what little we have outside of paying bills.

I don’t consider 45K a particularly high salary for a single person, different if there are two earners on 45K though as a combined income of 90K is high and enough to live off.

I always saw myself as leaning towards the left in politics. I am very much a supporter of benefits, etc. But I am becoming increasingly angry at the current government. I have always worked really hard. For many years I juggled things as a lone parent. It was horrendously difficult but I did it. Now earning a decent salary but still living a fairly frugal life as I still have a mortgage and a very small pension pot that I am now trying to grow. I really resent the idea that I should be taxed to death.

Nurses start on about £31k per annum, band 5 is the same across the board I believe. There will be unsociable hour enhancements but not worth £14k per year. I earned 5k extra in my last year in the NHS (11 years ago) and that was from tonnes of extra shifts.