Poll: What Salary would you be happy with?

What would you be happy with?

  • I don't care about money

    Votes: 21 2.9%

  • <£18,000

    Votes: 12 1.7%

  • £18,001-£23,000

    Votes: 26 3.6%

  • £23,001-£30,000

    Votes: 71 9.8%

  • £30,001-£40,000

    Votes: 153 21.2%

  • £40,001-£50,000

    Votes: 116 16.1%

  • £50,001-£75,000

    Votes: 106 14.7%

  • £75,001-£100,000

    Votes: 80 11.1%

  • £100,001-£250,000

    Votes: 58 8.0%

  • £250,001-£500,000

    Votes: 16 2.2%

  • Millions!

    Votes: 63 8.7%
  • Total voters
    722
Radiation said:
Income should be capped at 100k a year.
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LOLZ, yes that would work well.

krooton said:
Work/life balance and personal ambitions and aspirations also play a huge part.

I know that if I really knuckled down and work very hard, I could earn much more, but I think everyone has their own plateau when effort put in stops being worth the remuneration.

I doubt I would enjoy the effort and time involved with earning £60k+, and I am a pretty easily pleased person without insane materialistic desire (like some of my friends).

I know someone on £90k, who is on call 24/7, works 6 days a week, 12 hours weekdays, 8 hours Saturday.

She loves it, and would actually get really agitated if she had nothing to do.

So she works a 68 hour week, and is actually working 95% of that time.

I work a 40 hour week, and probably am only actually working 50% of that time (how else would I be posting on here all day?)

She effectively earns £30/hour.
I effectively earn £25/hour.

Double my effort to earn 20% more? No thanks.
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Agree, depends on the person but i prefer more time off and doing 38 hours a week, whenever i go away and pull 12 hours a day it kills me.
 
Since my work will always be in central London 8 would be required to even dream of buying a shoebox in a dilapidated part of south-east London. Currently 5 and I lived a better life in my uni days, renting privately is nothing short of extortionate!
 
Would like 2k a month after tax, so option 5.
I'm not that far of it, but I have to do mega overtime, where I would prefer flat rate.
 
I'd be more than happy with 6 but would be content with mid-5 as long as it paid the bills. I'm not one for extravagant cars or houses. Still got 4/5 years of education left yet though :p.
 
Currently 6 but very close to 7 at age 26. 7 is fine with me :)
 
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Abraham said:
so between 30 and 31 your target jumps by 30k?! ;)

My target isn't far off that, I always had 1k per year, but having been on that target for the last 3 years I'm about to go up by potentially 12k, putting me well ahead of the curve a few years off of 30
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There would obviously be some kind of curve, so maybe between 30 and 35 1.5x

Saying that, I want to do an ACA qualification after my Economics degree and then go into Managerial Finance/Corporate Finance, so my goal isn't unachievable xD

kd
 
Radiation said:
Don't you want a higher quality of life?
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No my current quality of life is superb, if you capped people at 100k then you remove the incentive for people to work harder, instead you give more money to people who can only be bothered to do just enough.

Sounds like a great plan, let me guess you don't like people earning lots of money?
 
On the higher end of the scale of 7 for me or the lower end of 8. Obviously I'd be happy for more, but I think high 7 is more than achievable and comfortable for me as I'm currently in the 6 category. :)
 
This thread makes me :(

I'm currently earning 1....And I dont see any real way for me to earn more than that. My own fault, but its hard to climb the pay grade ladder when you already have a home to look after and a low paying job you have to keep to pay your rent.

Eugh....

/wrists
 
TMP said:
Since my work will always be in central London 8 would be required to even dream of buying a shoebox in a dilapidated part of south-east London. Currently 5 and I lived a better life in my uni days, renting privately is nothing short of extortionate!
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This is where having a Mrs that's also a 5 pay's dividends. Combined we're a 7 and currently in the process of buying a house in london.
 
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