Anyone earning 'big bucks' (£200k+ per year)? Would love to hear your story!

Karl said:
Construction is rife with this behaviour. Tickets for shows, sporting events, all sorts - Trying to win more business. Nobody ever gets into trouble for it though..
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That's very different. Small "gifts"/benefits with no strings are very different to offers of tens/hundreds of thousands to the person in charge for signing on the dotted line.
 
sports_brah said:
9-5 still exists?
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Ha! I earn just over half of what the OP aspires to and work 9-4 max!

I don't want more money, could easily chase and obtain it but then I really value having time to relax and enjoy my non work life. And I NEVER check my emails when out of work.

I'm about to tun 30 and have been on the same money for a couple of years.

Good Masters degree in technical field
Good work experience in sector leaders
The right attitude and putting th graft in during the early years
Building a reputation doing step three
Now I am considered an expert in my field.
I was at lunch in a s.korean restaurant with our group today, we were talking about whose birthday is next and and everyone was laughing about how I am still the kid in the organistion at 30 and they couldn't believe I'm only 30.

PS. Not answering your emails when out of work paints you as a baller. I definately have people running around after me because I have cultivated the right image regarding this, no need to do it.
 
Freddie1980 said:
Its painful when you salary starts going into the 40% band as the increases yield much smaller increases in take home pay then you were previously getting.
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Here's a bonus for all the hard work you've done all year... BUT I'm not going to give you that... Take off the... Carry the one... Divide by zero... Here's your take home... Less than half the bonus...:eek:

(Once student loan is taken into account)

It must be worse on 45% as when VAT is included you're probably working over 60% of the time to pay off the tax...:(
 
The friends I have who earn what I'd class as considerable salaries have few traits in common other than determination. There's more to it, of course, but that's the stand out for me.
 
I'm one of these consultant-tru-my-own-company thing, and I make about 130k post tax. I work a lot tho. 7:30 at one office, at 4pm I'm into another job until 9pm, possibly more. Weekend sometimes, oh, and I worked over the xmas break.

But, I'm paid by the hour, i don't care. I used to care, had lots of jobs where 'the job' was the all important factor, 'the project', 'the product', 'the company', now, I don't I'm a rate whore.

Just that change of philosophy doubled my net, easily.

As for the 'but but if you die you..' comments, well, I actually LOVE my job, I can't possibly think of a way I could 'retire' and go fishing. I'd die of boredom within 6 months.

Mind you I mostly work from home, so I do have quite a few other activities during the 'working' day...
 
Tunney said:
Some people are thankful for the money they earn rather than resentful for the amount of tax they pay.
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And actually, 40% taxes don't apply - they apply only if your income only comes from pure salary, with that sort of pay package, it'd be totally stupid to do so.

Here year in/out, by dividing my income between dividends and salary, I can maximise the 'tax free' allowances and ultimately I paid less than 20% taxes. Ie, the money that eventually get in my pocket is >80% of what I have invoiced. There are even skims to stretch that even more, but quite frankly, I'm fairly happy with what I have.
 
I was on a lot the last 2 years... More than most of my close friends put together. But, I've taken a step back as I practically said goodbye to my life. I no longer had weekends, my thirst for more and more money overtook me. I wanted to work every waking second.

I stopped at a point where I did a favor for the company by working 23 hours over a weekend when it was meant to be 2 hours...

My attitude? I want to improve my self and impress everyone else. But I've realised now, that if I wanted to continue working like that for big bucks I'd have to say goodbye to my social and relaxed lifestyle. Not worth it.

I enjoy friendship and family more than money. I literally just took a job at a fraction of the salary yesterday after taking 8 weeks off work... Which has been wonderful. And yea I had the money to easily do that.
 
I know a guy in his mid twenties who earned more than double that last year. He bets on football professionally. He's a pretty clever guy, but the amount of stress he has gone through to make that is unreal, and it has taken a lot of determination.
 
kcon1 said:
I know a guy in his mid twenties who earned more than double that last year. He bets on football professionally. He's a pretty clever guy, but the amount of stress he has gone through to make that is unreal, and it has taken a lot of determination.
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Lol, "he bets on football professionally". Unless he has found a magical loophole in mathematics/statistics, he's probably a drug dealer.
 
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