comfortable salary

Living comfortably in London could mean an incredibly broad spectrum of things, depending on where you want to live. You can be very comfortable in Brixton on £25-30k, but you're going to struggle in Chelsea on much less than £50k. I live in an average part of London (Isle of Dogs) and my rent is c£25k.

Well in addition to that 25-30k salary you would be peddling drugs or mugging young professionals, so that revenue stream would up your earnings back into the comfortable adomain.

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I was more alluding to the fact he has presumed a student loan. The figure is nearer £3,000.
Student loan but no pension, while ok at that salary you're likely to have paid off your student loan pretty quickly, you're also likely to be paying a reasonable whack into a pension (probably of comparable size)
 
Regardless of where you live, I think I would like at least £100 a week to play with every week to consider it comfortable. That is money after rent, bills, taxes, travel, food for the fridge etc. Which when you think about it, is not that much £5k a year. Obviously if you want to go on holiday and blow £2k then you can't go out for 5 months….So I say £7k "loose" money would suffice for me.
 
Haha chicco, you are getting owned. I know your skill set and your salary from posting in the recent willy waving thread, which I believe you won ;)

4k in tax. I'd be happy with 4k take home...utter filth!
 
comfortable |ˈkəmfərtəbəl; ˈkəmftərbəl|
adjective

1 providing physical ease and relaxation
• physically relaxed and free from constraint.
• free from stress or fear
• free from financial worry
2 as large as is needed or wanted
• with a wide margin

Thanks for the definition of the word. Did not answer the point raised in my post.
 
Student loan but no pension, while ok at that salary you're likely to have paid off your student loan pretty quickly, you're also likely to be paying a reasonable whack into a pension (probably of comparable size)
Yes, but that's an assumption about circumstances that isn't always going to be correct. Equally you might be paying for a company car, some medical cover, life insurance, a mortgage etc. It's easier to just list the actual after tax rather than a guess :p
 
Subjective question is subjective. I know people who are comfortable on £42 per week JSA. I also know people who are "uncomfortable" on £100k per annum.
 
About 30k a year would be nice for a single person, if you are married then about 50k would be nice! (Combined)
 
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