Poll: POLL PLEASE: What % of your wages do you save a month?

[krisab]

Seriously 80% into savings! how have so many people picked that option?? Is there that many people still living at home with their parents?

 

[House]

For the last year ive been living abroad working in either Korea or the US, the only person who has touched my salary is the UK taxman, I've been on a fully covered package the whole time ive been out of the country.

Its a shame I cant stay out till april cause then i could get my tax back as well. NT code would feel sooo good.

 

[starfighter]

About 20% currently. I need to make it more like double that if I was to attempt to save up a deposit in a reasonable time but that would be grim but out of that money will eventually also need to go on a new car. holidays and toys come out of my non savings so I don't just spend it all on fancy holidays.

 

[Shikkaka]

Thanks to this thread, I just went through my bank statements for the last few months and realised that a school didn't pay my July and August invoices.

This is what happens when you quit being freelance, go on holiday and immediately start a new job and then proceed to forget to check your bank statements properly.
Thank you OcUK - you've just made me discover I'm a grand down!

Ahem!!! Thankyou...... O c U K!!!?

 

[jonislost]

0% at the moment, but will hopefully be saving again (normally about 25%) within the next few months (debts, job change, moving accommodation etc)

 

[citizen0100]

As much as I can depending on the month, minimum I like to save is £200!

 

[vincent1989]

i have been saving 20% (before tax) but a few big purchases and some unbudgeted bills have all but wiped out this years savings, going to step it up to 25% after this month, try and get a nice chunk in the savings account

 

[triggerthat]

I put around 60% into savings. 5-10% stays into my current account.

Living at home.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

between 20% - 25% now I'm caught up on my rent payments this should rise though.

 

[Beasty]

Not enough When I got a wage bump I thought great I can save loads now, but so far that hasn't materialised, I just got another one so hopefully I can this time!

 

[Correlian]

Fortunately for me its >80%. This is due to opting to become "mobile" which within my company means i am available for long term international assignments. This could be somewhere really crappy like Nigeria, or somewhere awesome like Australia/Singapore/Calgary or somewhere. Ive been in Dublin since 2008 which is pretty sweet, accomodation + all bills is provided so i dont really spend much at all - long may it continue!

 

[Morba]

Fortunately for me its >80%. This is due to opting to become "mobile" which within my company means i am available for long term international assignments. This could be somewhere really crappy like Nigeria, or somewhere awesome like Australia/Singapore/Calgary or somewhere. Ive been in Dublin since 2008 which is pretty sweet, accomodation + all bills is provided so i dont really spend much at all - long may it continue!

They could send you anywhere in the world, yet you get stuck in Dublin? Unlucky

 

[DampCat]

A friend of mine gets sent all over working on safety systems for oil rigs. He's in South Korea right now, but the last 2 years was Kazakhstan. Sounds glamorous when he says "im stationed all over", but it usually isnt

 

[Correlian]

They could send you anywhere in the world, yet you get stuck in Dublin? Unlucky

I like Dublin - and i'd take Dublin over Port Harcourt, Tripoli, Abuja, Luanda any day of the week

 

[LuciferCalling]

0 atm as anything left over at the end of the month gets paid off the mortgage.

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