comfortable salary

[Vonhelmet]

To actually ENJOY life you need to earn about 60k + easily.

Cobblers.

You can enjoy life on any wage that affords you a roof over your head and food in your belly.

I'll be happy to reach £30k sometime soon, and very happy when I get to £40k some years after that.

 

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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.

 

[Vonhelmet]

My issue is tax, it is ridiculous. One of the main reasons I am planning to live abroad. I get raped for nearly £4k a month!

Are you honestly earning 11k-ish per month?

 

[Abraham]

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)

 

[Raymond Lin]

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.

 

[Knubje]

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!

 

[Tunney]

A comfortable salary is what you're earning now +20%.

 

[LordSplodge]

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.

 

[Spleenus]

Thanks for the definition of the word. Did not answer the point raised in my post.

But is he not trying to emphasis that comfortable will be different for different people as it's all relative?

 

[Delvis]

Even in the area I live in £250k will get you a grotty 2 bed flat / house.

lol....Rite-O

 

[HAz]

about 100/200k im on 500k but its hard still.

 

[Abraham]

lol....Rite-O

he means purchase price, not salary.
however considering he could get a mortgage for 400k pretty easily, not sure why that would be an issue.

 

[Delvis]

he means purchase price, not salary.

Makes more sense then

 

[BigglesPiP]

I think anything over £40k, I live in Hampshire.

 

[Rotty]

can't see how you can live comfortably in London on £30k

 

[PMKeates]

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

 

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can't see how you can live comfortably in London on £30k

If had 30k in Notts I would most definately try to get a Porsche

Miss the place!

 

[Dj_Jestar]

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.

 

[Andr3w]

About 30k a year would be nice for a single person, if you are married then about 50k would be nice! (Combined)

 

[Randomface74]

35K