Is 100k a large salary?

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hawker1986 said:
Well on the basis that it’s 3x the UK average and £100k would put you in the top 4% of earners then yes it’s a large salary.

Sounds like your issue is the cost of childcare and housing?
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More the case that JH says its not a large salary? Although UK average is 35k
 
Surely "large" is relative. You tend to live to your means, your home, your way of life, everything that you do day-to-day, week-by-week will be driven by what you have earned up to that point. If your outgoings have increased by x% because of inflation or interest rate rises then it doesn't matter what your salary is, you'll still feel the pinch if you are close to living to your means.

Sure, those earning more, with a large home have more opportunity to downsize their lives to make more of their salary during times of increased financial pressure, but doing so isn't exactly simple, quick or cut and dry.
 
paradigm said:
Surely "large" is relative. You tend to live to your means, your home, your way of life, everything that you do day-to-day, week-by-week will be driven by what you have earned up to that point. If your outgoings have increased by x% because of inflation or interest rate rises then it doesn't matter what your salary is, you'll still feel the pinch if you are close to living to your means.

Sure, those earning more, with a large home have more opportunity to downsize their lives to make more of their salary during times of increased financial pressure, but doing so isn't exactly simple, quick or cut and dry.
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Agree it is relative but there must be some idea of what is actually a good/large salary as a general parameter
 
Not even sure why there's any debate around this. It puts you in the top % of earners in the UK and globally, how can it be seem as anything but a large amount.
Any arguments to the contrary about living to your means and increasing outgoings with a higher wage only further prove its a large income.
 
Depends where you live. Godalming is an expensive area (as referenced in the article for this comment). You could earn significantly less somewhere else and afford similar.
 
Depends on the playing field. For the places where folk on 100k+ generally need to live, you are in a pool of ultra wealthy with institutional wealth or boomers who have lucked out.

If you are trying to gain parity with those groups, then no, it isn't much at all. Your perspectives change as you earn more, and you realise just how much you need to be as comfortable as you deserve.
 
aspiring said:
More the case that JH says its not a large salary? Although UK average is 35k
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Be fair, that's not what he said, he said it's not a large salary for Surrey. What you said sounds ludicrous, what he actually said isn't. But don't let the full context of what someone says get in the way of political point scoring. :rolleyes:

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He said he had been speaking to "a lady from Godalming" about eligibility for the government’s childcare offer, which is not available if one parent is earning more than £100,000, and said, external: "I am aware that it is not huge salary in our area if you have a mortgage to pay."
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If we're talking about Godalming
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aspiring said:
Some strong debates over the weekend around this:
www.telegraph.co.uk

The £100,000 tax trap is destroying aspiration

Many wealthy parents are on a mission to earn less in order to cash in on free childcare
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Do people think it is not a good enough/big enough salary?
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The Telegraph. That well known left-wing paper :cry:

Of course they would say it's a tax trap.

100K is a good salary for most people. It certainly does not rate as "rich".

Most politicians and Telegraph readers aspire to much more than that, so to them it's a poor salary.
 
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