Poll: POLL PLEASE: What % of your wages do you save a month?

What % of your wages do you save a month?

  • 0%

    Votes: 148 33.3%

  • 1-20%

    Votes: 146 32.9%

  • 21-40%

    Votes: 58 13.1%

  • 41-60%

    Votes: 47 10.6%

  • 61-80%

    Votes: 23 5.2%

  • I can save more than 80%

    Votes: 22 5.0%
  • Total voters
    444
Seriously 80% into savings! how have so many people picked that option?? Is there that many people still living at home with their parents?
 
For the last year ive been living abroad working in either Korea or the US, the only person who has touched my salary is the UK taxman, I've been on a fully covered package the whole time ive been out of the country.

Its a shame I cant stay out till april cause then i could get my tax back as well. NT code would feel sooo good.
 
About 20% currently. I need to make it more like double that if I was to attempt to save up a deposit in a reasonable time but that would be grim :( but out of that money will eventually also need to go on a new car. holidays and toys come out of my non savings so I don't just spend it all on fancy holidays.
 
mjt said:
Thanks to this thread, I just went through my bank statements for the last few months and realised that a school didn't pay my July and August invoices.

This is what happens when you quit being freelance, go on holiday and immediately start a new job and then proceed to forget to check your bank statements properly.
Thank you OcUK - you've just made me discover I'm a grand down!
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Ahem!!! Thankyou...... O c U K!!!?

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0% at the moment, but will hopefully be saving again (normally about 25%) within the next few months (debts, job change, moving accommodation etc)
 
i have been saving 20% (before tax) but a few big purchases and some unbudgeted bills have all but wiped out this years savings, going to step it up to 25% after this month, try and get a nice chunk in the savings account
 
Not enough :mad: When I got a wage bump I thought great I can save loads now, but so far that hasn't materialised, I just got another one so hopefully I can this time!
 
Fortunately for me its >80%. This is due to opting to become "mobile" which within my company means i am available for long term international assignments. This could be somewhere really crappy like Nigeria, or somewhere awesome like Australia/Singapore/Calgary or somewhere. Ive been in Dublin since 2008 which is pretty sweet, accomodation + all bills is provided so i dont really spend much at all - long may it continue!
 
Correlian said:
Fortunately for me its >80%. This is due to opting to become "mobile" which within my company means i am available for long term international assignments. This could be somewhere really crappy like Nigeria, or somewhere awesome like Australia/Singapore/Calgary or somewhere. Ive been in Dublin since 2008 which is pretty sweet, accomodation + all bills is provided so i dont really spend much at all - long may it continue!
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They could send you anywhere in the world, yet you get stuck in Dublin? Unlucky :p
 
A friend of mine gets sent all over working on safety systems for oil rigs. He's in South Korea right now, but the last 2 years was Kazakhstan. Sounds glamorous when he says "im stationed all over", but it usually isnt ;)
 
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