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Zip said:
There is a way around that



Save up your money and shift over here and pick up a 4 bedroom house for about $300k-$400k AUD:p


30k your money would make me very happy down here:)
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Mate i would truely love to, but would it not be an utter mare to get a long term permit or suchlike? £175k for a 4 bedroom house is insane, from what i gather houses are huge down there compared with ours in terms of square footage too.
 
Jez said:
Position one for example shows £171k as an average for a director or cheif exec. I would hazard a guess that the only reason this figure is this low is due to thousands of directors of small companies pulling it down. Directors level personnel i know through family who work in larger companies tend to earn far in excess of this amount. Guess its interesting to see an average though even if it is fairly meaningless further up.
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Also, the table list salary, not total earnings, which makes a big difference when it comes to describing what a company director takes home each year.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;10666944 said:
Also, the table list salary, not total earnings, which makes a big difference when it comes to describing what a company director takes home each year.
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I assumed it was referring to total gross earnings, £171k salary would be rather innefficient would it not?
 
1st :)

A while until I'll be earning what they reckon, though!

But that said, directors tend to earn more from benefits, shares & eventually selling their business than they necessarily receive as a "salary".
 
Jez said:
I assumed it was referring to total gross earnings, £171k salary would be rather innefficient would it not?
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I would assume it would be very inefficient, but that's not to say that people don't do it. I know loads of contractors who ues PAYE umbrellas instead of becoming their own company directors, so it's case of each to their own.

Also, see above.
 
71st here - but a good 4k up on the average... not bad for a 22 yr old!

Agree with some points.. my friends an 'electrical engineer' - well he's a spark and he can pull in £80/hr take home.. and his company can get £50 on top of that!
 
These people saying 50k is hardly a lavish lifestyle make me want to cry.

Round here you'll be lucky to get a job over 25k doing anything other than being a doctor or MD of a company. Even the engineering/IT professional jobs very rarely go over 40k.

Most people I know would be over the moon earning anything over 20k.
 
DanTheMan said:
These people saying 50k is hardly a lavish lifestyle make me want to cry.

Round here you'll be lucky to get a job over 25k doing anything other than being a doctor or MD of a company. Even the engineering/IT professional jobs very rarely go over 40k.

Most people I know would be over the moon earning anything over 20k.
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You're in Manchester though. Not the most expensive place to live is it? :p
 
DanTheMan said:
Most people I know would be over the moon earning anything over 20k.
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think yourself lucky, most people down here in Cornwall would be lucky to earn 15k, you walk in the job centre and it doesn't matter what type of job your looking at be it a Kitchen assistant or a managing assistant they all state "meets national minimum wage" lol. (yes I'm working full time before anyone gets on my case), it's a complete joke down here when it comes to wages, the only people making real money down here are second home owners that charge a fortune on renting out rooms to the desperate, I know people down here in full time work that are living in sheds like a shanty home so they are able to save money lol, madness, these house prices aren't just affecting first time buyers, they are causing a major increase in rental prices as well.
 
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DanTheMan said:
These people saying 50k is hardly a lavish lifestyle make me want to cry.

Round here you'll be lucky to get a job over 25k doing anything other than being a doctor or MD of a company. Even the engineering/IT professional jobs very rarely go over 40k.

Most people I know would be over the moon earning anything over 20k.
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It's a different kettle of fish down south. When your rent alone is £1000 a month with all other bills and expenses on top of it, £50-60k isn't as much as you may consider it to be.

Don't get me wrong, it provides a comfortable lifestyle and more than average disposable income and I'm very grateful that I was lucky enough to make my way that far up the earnings scale but it's not the fortune that some people perceive it to be.

No matter what I've earned, be it the £5 an hour I started off on as a computer techie to the 60 odd grand I get now, I'm always skint at the end of the month.
 
Scuzi said:
It's a different kettle of fish down south. When your rent alone is £1000 a month with all other bills and expenses on top of it, £50-60k isn't as much as you may consider it to be.

Don't get me wrong, it provides a comfortable lifestyle and more than average disposable income and I'm very grateful that I was lucky enough to make my way that far up the earnings scale but it's not the fortune that some people perceive it to be.

No matter what I've earned, be it the £5 an hour I started off on as a computer techie to the 60 odd grand I get now, I'm always skint at the end of the month.
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I know exactly what you mean, half of what you earn would be enough to live pretty comfortably up here, it's just with the housing market as it is, house prices are hugely disproportionate to the average earnings of people I know.

I don't know a single person who earns 30k or more.
 
Come to devon and you'll be luckly to see any of those numbers :P

Worse pay in england tbh, atleast we got a nice beach and lots of horny tourists :D

Only on 20k myself, IT admin for a small company (3 offices in the torbay area is it) and do freelance web design. Hell my boss is only on 26k and he does way more work than i do (shhhh dont tell him that :P)
 
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Scuzi said:
It's a different kettle of fish down south. When your rent alone is £1000 a month with all other bills and expenses on top of it, £50-60k isn't as much as you may consider it to be.

Don't get me wrong, it provides a comfortable lifestyle and more than average disposable income and I'm very grateful that I was lucky enough to make my way that far up the earnings scale but it's not the fortune that some people perceive it to be.

No matter what I've earned, be it the £5 an hour I started off on as a computer techie to the 60 odd grand I get now, I'm always skint at the end of the month.
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60k can be a fortune, it all depends on how you choose to live, many people as their earning go so does the quality of their life style and the extra expenses that go with it, working with Indian people I've learnt allot about much you can do with little money if your prepared to make initial sacrifices, I know waiters that have lived like monks for 5 years and practically not spent a penny, these waiters now own 2+ houses earning good rental income, if you have no money left each month in a 60k per annum job then your doing something wrong tbh.
 
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