How much disposable income do you have a month (including what you might put aside to save)?

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I’ve been watching this show where people change lives for a week. £1,900 a week disposable income is expressed as extremely rich. Of course I know that’s a LOT of money spare. But surely that’s not really ‘rich’?

What do you have spare a month (before any that goes to savings)? And do you think you’re rich?!

Me, as I know people will ask, around 2.5k a month disposable but I save 1k.

Around £450

Editing as I don't know what "disposable" includes really!

I never know how to answer these things because disposable feels too subjective. £1900 doesn’t seem rich to me though (unless that literally was after all bills and food!)

About £300

So you don’t feel rich with your 1.5k a month spare after bills and savings?

@jgaudjdd578 this was after bills but before food

What planet are people on where £1.9K a week disposable isn’t rich????

Also how do you define disposable?

I pay private school fees (my choice to go private, so would what I pay in school fees be part of my disposable income given it’s at my discretion to choose a private school?!)

@ToKittyornottoKitty not even close. Huge mortgage and nursery fees.

@ToRideOrNotToRide i would say that’s disposable as not necessary. How much are they?

Seriously? Just shy of £8k disposable income per month isn’t rich?

Fucking hell. I genuinely despair.

Also is that £1.9k per individual or per household?

Your mortgage and nursery fees aren’t relevent to the 1.5k disposable income, and you still save 1k a month

That’s £7600 a month….. a MONTH!!!!

Yeah to me that’s good going……

@ToKittyornottoKitty household

I dont know why people start these threads, its just used as an excuse for the braggers to appear

A week??

@ToRideOrNotToRide sorry tagged @ToKittyornottoKitty

Never really know what disposable means, if I save for annual car expenses is that a bill, or out of disposable income?

Actually I just don’t think this makes sense OP. You are saying people who have 8k a month disposable income aren’t rich… ignoring the fact that the programme seems to be capped at 2k a week as they never go over that… I’m struggling to see how you can not think that’s rich

@ToKittyornottoKitty well so far, I’ve not watched the whole thing! I just thought if you’re doing a comparison thing surely there’s wealthier than that.

As I say define disposable, if it’s after all bills and food sure; but if not, I think it’s nicely comfortable, not necessarily rich.

If you save it then it’s savings, not disposable. Or it is for me anyway, it depends how you budget

Our income is 7480
expenditure not including food is 2405
so that leaves a disposable of 5075.

net income per month £8k
disposable about £4k

very comfortable but not rich

If it was Rich House Poor House, I believe the amounts are capped. Top amount is "only" ever £2500 per week for some genuinely high wealth families. However a lot of the time the businesses are a house of cards and not generating the income they claim on the show.
They are also very flexible with what it should cover with the "poor" family often buying electricity top ups out of it.