How Much Do You Earn? #2

[Habsy123]

Back office finance in London, American company, £65k, net monthly is around £4000, all the usual private company benefits and pension, daily lunch allowance, business class long haul flights, annual bonus usually around 30-50%. Single and renting in london (£1500pm), haven’t saved a single penny Also hate my colleagues and my mental health is BAD

 

[Pinkpenguinx]

Im a Health care assistant , I work in a GP surgery . I'm a trained phlebotomist among many other things , I get an amazing £10 an hour which is pretty darn shit. Hoping to do a nursing apprenticeship one day . I could get £12 / 13 an hour in McDonald's though .

 

[queencarmen]

Fuck off £80k isn't fantastic I've worked in television for ten years and I barely anyone I know is even near that much money. Try living in London, working a fifty hour week and earning £25k and tell me again £80k "isn't fantastic".

Don’t worry, I’m convinced people just write shit like that to piss people off

 

[overithun]

I love reading this shit!

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 expenses I had more disposable income when I was earning 30k

 

[Lalla]

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!

 

[Souffle]

This thread makes me realise how badly I get paid. £10 an hour WFH admin for a small company. I don’t get holiday/sickness/pension as I am classed as self employed. I work my butt off and even though I’m not officially a supervisor or manager I do have to boss other staff around. I’m nearly 35 and feel like a complete failure at life

 

[prozacprincess]

Im also curious about peoples debt. My mum often says ‘those people who have everything are normally in mountains of debt’
I wonder if this is true??

No debt whatsoever. We own our house, 3 cars as we bought a new one last week, travel extensively ( I’m writing this from the living room of a suite in a 5 star resort). What we did do was choose never to have children, and we work long hours within our own businesses. I left school without a single GCSE and put myself through university in my late 20’s.

 

[Scorpihoe]

Someone I know is a year older than me (26), has been in tech since 18 and is now on £64k ... crys in regretting not being a computer girl tbh x

My husband does this, he’s in cloud engineering, he was on 60k, but he’s more experienced now and is interviewing for 85k a year jobs, at 27

Also they are paid much much more in America, so he’s considering getting a fully remote, US based job, and just wfh full time…wish I could go back in time and be a tech girlie 🥲

 

[Millennial Pink]

Just got a payrise up to market rate for software implementation with some line management responsibilities- £33k. At the bottom rung of this department I was on £17k, what a shitshow.

 

[HoGi]

I didn’t go to uni and I don’t need anyone to feel sorry for me. I had and still have a fantastic social life

Same here. And I don't have to go to 3 weddings a year of people I have only seen once a year for the past 8 years

 

[Auntyanchïoade]

£64500 Train Driver

 

[MissTeddy]

£850k a year ? How is that actually a salary - I can’t actually comprehend that much money.

 

[JBinstafun]

I’m in a senior HR role and with latest payrise just hit £90k - I’m term time only but full time (plus evenings/weekends) for the 39 week I’m contracted.

TBH I’d rather work anywhere but HR. It’s soul destroying but I’m the family breadwinner and my husband loves his company so won’t find another job despite being massively underpaid.

 

[Beachbabe]

I love this thread. I work part time for a small accountancy practice doing accounts admin and I’m on £16 an hour. Financially I’m ok but only because of tax credits and child maintenance. My daughter is 15 so I haven’t got long left to get my act together to find a full time job which will earn me the same amount of money I have now. It keeps me awake some nights trying to plan the future.

 

[And_that's_okay!]

I didn’t go to uni and I don’t need anyone to feel sorry for me. I had and still have a fantastic social life

I believe the undertones of the university discussion are to the contrary of what you believe is being implied. I was saying you DON'T have to go to university to succeed in life. Too much pressure is put on people to go and it's very unhelpful. I don't think anyone feels sorry for those who didn't/don't go.

 

[Flowergirl14]

When I was on a contract 3 years ago and WFH and earning £100k pa, I decided to invest in home air conditioning.
It was summer and so hot...
Boy am I glad.
Now I am unemployed and going the menopause, am I grateful?!

 

[Homebird44]

Nope. My dad pays for everything and we aren’t expected to contribute towards bills etc. Very fortunate!

Our opinions on this are a mile apart so I'm going to leave it there.

 

[thegoodnaysayer]

New member here. This is a really interesting thread. I’m in Scotland and the chief executive of a small social landlord. Nobody goes into that game for the money really tbh and I ‘only’ earn around £80k, which isn’t fantastic for the responsibility it carries.

Fuck off £80k isn't fantastic I've worked in television for ten years and I barely anyone I know is even near that much money. Try living in London, working a fifty hour week and earning £25k and tell me again £80k "isn't fantastic".

 

[Rxt156]

Teacher £36000 no extra responsibilities and I’d like to keep it that way

 

[sixdinnersid83]

I don’t know why anyone cares whether other people charge adult children or not- I don’t.
Although think there is a ‘lemon sucking’ type who judge those who don’t as if their children will then have no idea about money or saving. Which is rubbish- as proved by me.