How much money do you earn?

[Mrs Wogans lemon drizzle]

Apparently £27,600 is the average salary in the UK.  Seems like a reasonable amount outside London.  How much money do you earn?  And do you consider yourself well off? 

Most people on here seem to be well educated, so i'm guessing a lot of you must be bringing in the big bucks? 

[New Jack]

~£3804 a year on Universal Credit

Vote Labour

[Funcrusher]

Is someone considering a career move from shilling for Blairite vermin to wealth management?

[Clive Langham]

About twelve thousand a year.

[New Jack]

Universal Credit's hourly rate is under a quid!

[BlodwynPig]

A lot of money.

[Queneau]

I don't think about it in terms of money; you can't buy the look on the face of a person you have helped or seeing how they have transformed their life because of work with you. I also can't buy new shoes though so perhaps so adjustment should be going on.

[Queneau]

A lot of money.

I'm always looking for sponsorship from handsome donors.

[BlodwynPig]

I'm always looking for sponsorship from handsome donors.

Such donations come at a price. A terrible terrible price.

[Queneau]

Such donations come at a price. A terrible terrible price.

If you want my soul, I got rid of that burden time ago.

[Z]

Mid-high 30s, which is low for my level and field but I'm so unnecessary atm that it's crippling my self-worth. but I'm expecting a bump of ~25% whenever I switch jobs next year (which means I'll probably wind up being paid slightly less than I am right now).

Would take a pay cut to work with something I actually cared about.

[biggytitbo]

I honestly don't know how much I earn because I don't care.

[Mrs Wogans lemon drizzle]

I honestly don't know how much I earn because I don't care.

You must be well off then?

[BlodwynPig]

six figures and I'm paid by the EU.

[MuteBanana]

£8,814 scum

[Mrs Wogans lemon drizzle]

six figures and I'm paid by the EU.

Do you pay tax?

[græskar]

48.000 PLN = 9,927.18 pounds

[Noonling]

I'm on ~£17k, which I feel is loads. I don't even know what to do with it all.

[BlodwynPig]

Do you pay tax?

Yes, should pay tax in the UK and Canada, but got a sweet loophole deal, so only pay once.

[canadagoose]

Less than that average figure quoted, but more than minimum wage. Like most people my age, a good chunk of my income disappears on rent, council tax and utilities, especially seeing as I live alone now. I don't feel particularly well-off, even though I've never earned more in my life. I think I'm either going to have to go on the council house waiting list or bite the bullet and flat-share if I want a better quality of life (EDIT: by which I mean, being able to afford holidays and non-Primark clothes). Can't be arsed to move house again, though.

Double edit: Having said that I should really cut down on my bi-weekly bacon roll habit, and I should go back to making my own sandwiches again. I've just been too disorganised lately.

[Z]

I'm on ~£17k, which I feel is loads. I don't even know what to do with it all.

Yeah tbh I kind of have the same issue. Have a friend who is absolutely minted and somehow it still isn't enough. When I hear her talking about how she needs to buy shit it sounds like a mental illness, cannot comprehend it at all.

Meanwhile I'm aware the only difference in my general wellbeing atm and if I was on maybe a third of that is that I'd probably die a few years earlier due to a worse diet. The extra 30 minutes a day thinking about actually budgeting stuff would be quite substantially offset by not having to be in an office by 10am every day, the extra walking from living out further and to save a bit more could be a net gain health wise.

[Harry Badger]

Apparently £27,600 is the average salary in the UK.

Average or median?

[Cuellar]

Somewhere in the region of 8 billion pounds

[Mrs Wogans lemon drizzle]

Average or median?

Average.

[biggytitbo]

You must be well off then?

I don't spend very much so it doesn't matter, but I know I started off on 10k and lived in a bare flat with a mattress on the floor for a few years and ate farm foods square sausages. I earn well now because I very slowly worked my way up the ladder at the cost of destroying my soul, happiness and self respect. I'd definetly trade having more money for going back to the mattress days, they were the best times.

[Twit 2]

Average.

The figure you quoted is the median.

[Z]

I don't spend very much so it doesn't matter, but I know I started off on 10k and lived in a bare flat with a mattress on the floor for a few years and ate farm foods square sausages. I earn well now because I very slowly worked my way up the ladder at the cost of destroying my soul, happiness and self respect. I'd definetly trade having more money for going back to the mattress days, they were the best times.

Were you doing work you enjoyed more back then?

Do you think it was possible that you could've gone in a progressive direction you would've been happier with? Like, a specific one?

[Small Man Big Horse]

Doing the online TEFL thing the maximum I can earn is around £13,000 but then it's only a part time job and dependent on how many classes I'm allocated. And that gives me a good 5 - 6 hours a day where I can hopefully find some other freelance work, but as it is combined with Mrs SMBH's wages we've enough to pay the rent, eat food and use clingfilm as condoms, so I'm not complaining.

[Twit 2]

I don't actually know what I earn but it's about 27 before tax. Wife earns more like 35 I think.

[nedthemumbler]

I still haven't got over the shock of that first council tax bill.  There are 7 (tiny) flats in my building, each paying a grand a year in council tax.  Buses are still late