What do you earn …

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Sorry this is a nosey question … but I’d love to know what people earn! As it’s all anonymous I thought I could ask as it really interests me what different jobs earn.

this is partly as I wonder how so many people can afford new cars/holidays/big houses.

I’ll add mine … I earn 68k … but can’t afford a fancy car or holidays every year. I have my own house, but it’s not big. I also didn’t get any family help so bought on my own with no help for a deposit etc.

thanks! And hopefully the question doesn’t offend anyone!

£30k resource manager for a small call centre in the North West. DH £32k marketing executive. We have a small mortgage as we got lucky and bought with a 5% deposit days before lockdown hit and prices rocketed.
We have no spare cash as we ruined ourselves with loans for unexpected house issues and car finance. We pay back more in combines loans than our mortgage

MN at its best. Skint on 235K.

Why do you feel skint? I'm not judging just curious.

Our income went up significantly (for us) 18 months ago. Possibly because we are older and lived through lean times when DCs were younger, our lifestyle hasn't inflated to match our income.

We tend not to eat out (never feels like good value for money). We don't have a cleaner. Our car is paid for. We have a takeaway a couple of times per month. Our hobbies are fairly frugal.

I'm wondering if I'm missing out on something!

teacher - £75k in Asia. Housing allowance (£2k per month), private medical, flights and school places (£40k per year each). At the moment am a single parent paying my bills and my ex’s (in the UK), but can still save £1k per month, and when I get divorced £3k per month.

I’m a psychotherapist. My pay varies as I’m self employed but expect it to be around £50k this tax year.

TBH, I don't really feel skint, but I do act it. I think it's because I was taught to be frugal by my folks when I was young. I deliberate over quite small purchases still. We didn't have much money as a family in the 80s, etc., so it's learned behaviour. Nowadays, we are reasonably careful with money (apart from wine and food) and have overpaid the mortgage a lot, and it's because I know that I am lucky to be earning what I do now and know that it won't last forever. All it might take is a simple innovation by one of the large tech companies and the stuff I sell will become less valuable/saleable. Just trying to make hay whilst the sun is shining.

Going by the tax year just ended, I am self employed and made about £9k profit. I don't have to find rent as house is outright owned. I often think about getting a new job but I am unpaid carer to husband and parents and there are simply no hours left in the week to train/work elsewhere. I'm lucky though because my job affords me the time to care for them and our children, as well as look after the house and so forth.
I do get a bit tired and feel low but that's life as mum would say.

Last year was under 30k, but that was because I was working 2 extra shifts a month.

£85k + bonus. I'm a solicitor. DH is a doctor on £53k. No DC and still fairly young. I'm 29 and DH is 31

I'm 61, 'retired' at 60. Got my private pension £23,000. At the moment it's not enough so I'm working three days a week. I'm trying to lower my spending to match my pension...it's not going very well. DH earns around £50,000

£4991 which is carers allowence pa.

£175k plus bonus. 3 dc. Own home but I don't drive. Dh has a Ford bought second hand a few years ago. Nothing fancy. We usually go on 3 or 4 holidays a year.

Was also front line emergency carer and had enough. Like many I knew who run towards fire, started my own business - 20 years hard slog paying bills now earning mid 6 figures (on the left of the decimal point).

@IVFNewbie
Skint on £235k?
That's actually so tone deaf in todays climate.
Away and have a word with yourself.

Incomes vary and expenses vary but it is always interesting hearing about other people. I funded 5 sets of school and university fees (am a lawyer and work myself so no fixed salary). I am content with what I earn and I deliberately gave up some of the harder parts like international travel deliberately because they were more effort and also because tax rates are so high the incentive goes to an extent.

Oh go away yourself.

I’m a mental health nurse and work 24hrs a week. I get about £29/30,000.

70k public sector advisory role. Good pension too.

£76.75 a week carers allowance , my dh is on pip and support group esa no uc and that is it. We don't qualify for anything else as are over the savings limit.
Newly in the shit.

Yep I hear you

30k Assistant Accountant

DH 45k engineer

£24K FT - Admin

I dislike it, so boring and could easily WFH but I'm here to keep a chair warm

£140,000 with £150,000 bonus, partner almost exactly the same. I know I'm very lucky and can't complain at all. Our mortgage will go up from about £3k to £5k which is annoying but affordable.

@GingerKombucha what do you do for work?