Edited to add, that's what she tells us.
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I would have thought he was a property developper/investor of some sort. That's mind blowing.
I work in HR and have access to people's pay data. I've seen C-suite execs on well over £1 million (excluding shares and bonus).
Sounds good, but ask yourself, are they truly happy.
Thank you, this made me feel so much better!I love reading this tit!
29, Top 4 firm, £66k basic with £5-10k a year in bonus.
Partner earns basically the same. Have found as our wages grow so do our expensesI had more disposable income when I was earning 30k
I'm on £65k now and was thinking the other day that I had more disposable income when I was on £25k. I rented a little room in a horrible house share in a dodgy area and took the bus everywhere. Now I have a huge mortgage on my dream house, car payments, insurance, a dog, etc etc - the lifestyle creep is real! I'm so satisfied with my life and really couldn't ask for more, but I'm ashamed that people on far less than me have way more in savings.
I'm on £84k full time. Am fairly senior in the NHS management.
There are over 100K people in the UK with an annual salary over 300K so it’s obviously possible to earn 850k a year. Most of the senior sales managers in my company make over a million a year in commission.
Ngl, the pang of bitterness and envy at those salaries 
I’m the same. The more I earn the less I feel I have. I don’t get it!Thank you, this made me feel so much better!
I'm on £65k now and was thinking the other day that I had more disposable income when I was on £25k. I rented a little room in a horrible house share in a dodgy area and took the bus everywhere. Now I have a huge mortgage on my dream house, car payments, insurance, a dog, etc etc - the lifestyle creep is real! I'm so satisfied with my life and really couldn't ask for more, but I'm ashamed that people on far less than me have way more in savings.
My husband is a sales manager please tell me what he needs to sell to work for your company and how I can get him a job there ?
I earn 20k work 2.5 days a week. My husband earns 110k yet we’re massively feeling the squeeze! He pays rent on another property as technically he works in London but since covid he’s been at home but he’s continued to pay because it’s easier than finding another suitable property when he needs to. This is far more money than I was used to growing up. Even psrt time I meet my dads wage: but it doesn’t feel Like it!! ETA I know my husbands situation sounds weird but he’s been at home since March 2020 bar 5 weeks 
doing a week a month back in London until planb!
doing a week a month back in London until planb!
The thing about earning over £100k (don't get me wrong I'd love to earn that) is that your expenses/ lifestyle tend to increase to match so you probably don't feel much better off.
So I know someone whose household income (both work FT, no kids) is about £200-250k. Yes they have a million pound house (although as it's in London it's an ordinaryish 3 bed albeit in a lovely area), but they also spend £££s on clothes (no Primark or Asda for them, and they work in the City so it's all formal wear suits most of the time). Nights out are all overpriced London bars rather than steak and a wine in the Wetherspoons (which does me fine!) and they won't go on a holiday unless it's a 5 star resort.
I do know someone else who earned huge amounts as a City trader in the 90s (I'm guessing the equivalent of £200k a year or more), and retired 20 years ago (aged 40) on a massive pension. Hasn't worked since!
So I know someone whose household income (both work FT, no kids) is about £200-250k. Yes they have a million pound house (although as it's in London it's an ordinaryish 3 bed albeit in a lovely area), but they also spend £££s on clothes (no Primark or Asda for them, and they work in the City so it's all formal wear suits most of the time). Nights out are all overpriced London bars rather than steak and a wine in the Wetherspoons (which does me fine!) and they won't go on a holiday unless it's a 5 star resort.
I do know someone else who earned huge amounts as a City trader in the 90s (I'm guessing the equivalent of £200k a year or more), and retired 20 years ago (aged 40) on a massive pension. Hasn't worked since!
Does anyone else think back to when they were younger; we were taught (well i was anyway) to do well at school, pass my exams, go to uni and then it would be easy to earn decent money? I come from a very low working class family, my family still live in the council house i grew up in, and my parents were never wealthy. But i was always taught that the better student you were the more you would earn! (how bloody wrong that was)!!
I did graduate in 2009 which was the worst bleeping year for graduates following the crash and i ended up signing on when i finished my BA. I did end up getting a job (back home in my hometown and on pretty tit pay), but then i went back to uni to do my MA. Dont get me wrong it gave me a profession and im a social worker, but looking at what other people earn compared to me, and when i think to the responsibility i have, its actually not a great paid job at all.
Dont get me wrong me and other half both earn and we have a mortgage, 2 amazing kids, and we are happy. But sometimes i do feel like i have wasted my life, and i could have done so much better for myself. But i live in the Lake District- yes its beautiful but its hardly the economic capital of the world!!! Sometimes i do feel a bit jealous when i see people earning so much more than me, especially as it was drilled into me to study study study and the rewards would be instant following graduation.
But we are happy, and there people alot worse off than me. So i should be grateful for what i have got
I did graduate in 2009 which was the worst bleeping year for graduates following the crash and i ended up signing on when i finished my BA. I did end up getting a job (back home in my hometown and on pretty tit pay), but then i went back to uni to do my MA. Dont get me wrong it gave me a profession and im a social worker, but looking at what other people earn compared to me, and when i think to the responsibility i have, its actually not a great paid job at all.
Dont get me wrong me and other half both earn and we have a mortgage, 2 amazing kids, and we are happy. But sometimes i do feel like i have wasted my life, and i could have done so much better for myself. But i live in the Lake District- yes its beautiful but its hardly the economic capital of the world!!! Sometimes i do feel a bit jealous when i see people earning so much more than me, especially as it was drilled into me to study study study and the rewards would be instant following graduation.
But we are happy, and there people alot worse off than me. So i should be grateful for what i have got
I’m with you, similar background and top band 6 in NHS but it’s nothing for what I do and the responsibilities we have is it. I struggle with the politics of the job and it’s really getting to me but I also live in the lakes and feel trapped because nothing will pay what I’m on now and I can’t take a pay cut.
Previously (as in, last month) in a nursery earning minimum wage, 25 hours a week. Horrible place, absolutely hated it.
Now in a school as a 1:1 tutor (covid recovery), £19 grand per annum (not pro-rated for school hols either, so works out better than a teaching assistant which is basically the role) and absolutely loving it.
Now in a school as a 1:1 tutor (covid recovery), £19 grand per annum (not pro-rated for school hols either, so works out better than a teaching assistant which is basically the role) and absolutely loving it.
The more you earn, the more you spend!
£33k Railway Manager. 9-5 hours, no issue getting time off, fortunate enough not to need to move into shifts/up the ladder for more money at the moment.
Honestly the amount of hours i do is absolutely ridiculous, and it works out im getting about £3 per hour when broken down! And i know its not about the "money" being a social worker, but for what we do, the hours we work, the responsibility we have, all the tit we have to put up; we should be on at least double!
Not gonna lie, when ive read some posts on here i did wonder where i went wrong in life. But im very grateful that im even earning, my other half earns quite well as an electrician, we have our house, and our children are happy and healthy. Its a very different life to the one i imagned back in 2006 when i started my BA degree! My plan was to live in Camden, earn tit loads of money, never have kids, and live in a smart apartment- oh and to go out every night in Camden Town!! Its partly my own fault for not applying for graduate scheme jobs, but i didnt really know what to do career wise. I was just told that i would be earning decent money upon graduating!
Aww its nice to see another Cumbrian on here! Im in Kendal, and i do enjoy living here and bringing my children up here. I just wish i was earning more! We have talked about moving to a city but we would miss kendal so much; our support system is here and that outweighs everything. I would love to go back to uni to do my Phd and work as a lecturer at Lancaster Uni, i think thats my ultimate aim, but even uni lecturers are not on amazing money! considering how bloody intelligent they are, and the research they do, they dont make millions.
Maybe i should have been more money orientated. One thing is for certain, im absolutely not going to push my own children in going to uni unless they absolutely want to! My partner is an electrician and gets paid well- more than me for sure! I think the problem is my own parents thought me going to uni would get me out of their own cycle of very low working class/almost on the poverty line, i was the first in my family to go to uni and they saw it as a one way automatic ticket to success.
But anyway, i dont mean to sound so bitter and im really trying to grateful for the things i have got in life. Im just going to have to carry on playing the lottery!
So much of what you say I can relate to. I’m on my own with my daughter though so I live to a budget which on paper you wouldn’t think I’d have to. Can’t help but feel some envy at some of these salaries. Maybe it’s time I start playing the lotteryHonestly the amount of hours i do is absolutely ridiculous, and it works out im getting about £3 per hour when broken down! And i know its not about the "money" being a social worker, but for what we do, the hours we work, the responsibility we have, all the tit we have to put up; we should be on at least double!
Not gonna lie, when ive read some posts on here i did wonder where i went wrong in life. But im very grateful that im even earning, my other half earns quite well as an electrician, we have our house, and our children are happy and healthy. Its a very different life to the one i imagned back in 2006 when i started my BA degree! My plan was to live in Camden, earn tit loads of money, never have kids, and live in a smart apartment- oh and to go out every night in Camden Town!! Its partly my own fault for not applying for graduate scheme jobs, but i didnt really know what to do career wise. I was just told that i would be earning decent money upon graduating!
Aww its nice to see another Cumbrian on here! Im in Kendal, and i do enjoy living here and bringing my children up here. I just wish i was earning more! We have talked about moving to a city but we would miss kendal so much; our support system is here and that outweighs everything. I would love to go back to uni to do my Phd and work as a lecturer at Lancaster Uni, i think thats my ultimate aim, but even uni lecturers are not on amazing money! considering how bloody intelligent they are, and the research they do, they dont make millions.
Maybe i should have been more money orientated. One thing is for certain, im absolutely not going to push my own children in going to uni unless they absolutely want to! My partner is an electrician and gets paid well- more than me for sure! I think the problem is my own parents thought me going to uni would get me out of their own cycle of very low working class/almost on the poverty line, i was the first in my family to go to uni and they saw it as a one way automatic ticket to success.
But anyway, i dont mean to sound so bitter and im really trying to grateful for the things i have got in life. Im just going to have to carry on playing the lottery!
£45k working in marketing for a fortune 500. I had a big career change at 30 due to health issues, so I started at the bottom in marketing on £20k and no relevant degree and worked my way up a few years later. It was very hard and competitive but it can be done and I want to be earning more by next year.
i also have some other income streams.
i also have some other income streams.