Is £25,800 annual gross wage good? 2024

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I work 35 hours. One day from home. I enjoy my job. Just interested to see what others think. Can't find much on Google. Thanks xx

Part time?
average weekly income is £440 I think

so you do the maths

Minimum wage is £22k so that’s not a lot really.

https://ifs.org.uk/tools_and_resources/where_do_you_fit_in

You can compare here.
It's more than I earn for 37.5 hours.

It's pretty much entry level wage

Median salary in the U.K. is £28k but I think there is a lot to be said for enjoying your job and if it covers your outgoings, then it’s fine.

I think we need more context. Age, location, qualifications. It would be good as a starting salary for a young person in a cheap location where there’s prospects of gaining more skills and salary rises, but very bad for a 40 year old in the south.

What did you Google?

Depends what you do and where you live. It would be around £27.6k FT (37.5h) so you can compare to median FTE salaries by region here. But it depends on the sector and your experience really.

Depends what you are doing.

And of course - where you live / cost of living locally.

How old are you? How much experience do you have? Do you have any qualifications? It's all relevant. 20 just out of college, first job it's decent. I'm nearly 40 have multiple degrees, professional qualifications and a shedload of specialist experience, I wouldn't even look at a job with this salary and wouldn't be able to get the mortgage I need if that's what I earned. DM retired, got bored so got another job with less responsibility part time and earns about £13 an hour which she's more than happy with for what she does. It's very context dependent

It depends on what field you work in and where you are geographically.

It's not much above full time minimum wage, so it's not really a "good" salary in the grand scheme of things.

However there is a lot to be said for job satisfaction. If you can afford the lifestyle you are happy with, does it matter if it counts as a good income?

Why are people saying it’s part time? 35 hours is counted as full time

Job satisfaction is right at the top for me. I simply couldn't spend my working day at something that I hated. In fact I'd be crap at it and probably get fired. So if you are doing something you enjoy and can live on the salary then you're winning.

It depends what you do and area.

Call centre type job or admin in NW - good wage
Project Director in London - dire

More importantly, if its enough for you to live on and enjoy stuff, and you like your job, and you're treated well, then it's surely fine?

Fuck me why do so many people post these salary questions with no context whatsoever. It's completely pointless. If you're a 16 year old hairdressing apprentice it's a bloody amazing salary. If you have little in the way of qualifications or skills it's ok, if you're highly educated and/or experienced it's low.

Which are you?

Entry or lower grades fine, management not

I do admin for a local council. Full time (37 hours). It's similar to what I earn.

£25k has been my highest wage and that was last year - full time work from home 100% it worked financially I think but the company were hard to please and that involved working weekends, early mornings and late evenings so there wasn't much life/balance. I recently heard they combined 2 roles into one so glad I got out.

Currently I go out to work for £22,000 which involves the commute to another town 5 days a week plus park n ride on top and I think I'm struggling as I've had to dip into savings. I did get an offer for £250 more per year as hybrid remote with (apparently) one week out of four having to incur travel costs.

A local job for 25-27k non remote 9-5 which I could probably have walked to received nearly 500 applications start of the year so I think a lot of people are chasing the highest wage.

I was earning more than that 20 years ago

From your other thread, it’s not great, no.

It’s not great, average wage is now 36k. DS is doing a degree apprenticeship , he does have to commute to a city but it’s not too bad a commute and he is in on almost 29k in second year.

But context is key, education level, age, geographical region.

Average full time wage in the uk is 32k. As someone said it’s not much more than min wage. It could be good, it depends on what you do. Ie if you do a job where normally it is min wage.

That includes people who only work a couple of days a week though.

Full time median salary is more like 35k

I would say £14 an hour with a day from home is a good income. It depends on your circumstances though. Is it enough to offer you a decent standard of living or even the lifestyle you want? That's your answer, not something from a bunch of random people on the internet.

To me it seems low when you consider the cost of living.

For a 20-something in training, it's probably fine, but for a proper grown up, as your regular salary, it's not enough imo.

It depends on individual circumstances though. An older person who has paid off their mortgage might be able to work for that.