What is a good salary in UK at present?

dlockers said:
It depends on whether you are at the "maintain" point of your life or the growth part. I feel too many people cross at life have aspired to be in "maintain" prematurely. A lot of full time WFH'ers are at risk of accepting "maintain" prematurely, without proper thought. Obviously job dependent, but as they say "showing up is step 1".
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Only next step for me would be making the move to work for myself really. Hitting thay higher tax band means taking on too much responsibility for little end of the day renumeration.

Nitefly said:
I went from full time in the office, to once a week in the office, to full time work at home.

Don’t ever make me go back!!! Commuting is a total waste of time. I’d rather exercise or relax. It’s a heck of a perk. The downside is that your world becomes very small, making you comparatively isolated and potentially lazy.
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I'd echo this entirely.

If someone said 5k pay cut or back to the office... I'd take the pay cut.

I don't need to get ready, I don't even need to shower until lunch break. I can walk dog at lunch. If car goes wrong I'm not screwed.
We have 1 car not 2.
Less miles to insure.
Not tempted to buy food/coffee on way.

The benefits stack up! Only negative I find is heating costs! :D
 
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413x said:
Only next step for me would be making the move to work for myself really. Hitting thay higher tax band means taking on too much responsibility for little end of the day renumeration.
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This is the thing tho, the upper band just isn't enough (unless you are asset rich and can downsize/are expecting a healthy inheritance). You gotta smash through it and worry about the band above that... and so on. Then coast :D
 
dlockers said:
This is the thing tho, the upper band just isn't enough (unless you are asset rich and can downsize/are expecting a healthy inheritance). You gotta smash through it and worry about the band above that... and so on. Then coast :D
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I believe a lot of jobs in my sector top out at 70-80 ish for Standard stuff. But it includes stress.
To get to the 100+ without that you need to be in the trendy tech space. (ai, finance, quant, etc)
For myself I don't see any other option really than going it alone. As I'd be fine with the risk/fluctuating income.

Time is all I really want. I have plenty enough money at 55k but not enough time. (ie holiday). I'm not sure if my company would allow (I don't think they would) a digital nomad type set up for example.
 
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413x said:
I believe a lot of jobs in my sector top out at 70-80 ish for Standard stuff. But it includes stress.
To get to the 100+ without that you need to be in the trendy tech space. (ai, finance, quant, etc)
For myself I don't see any other option really than going it alone. As I'd be fine with the risk/fluctuating income.

Time is all I really want. I have plenty enough money at 55k but not enough time. (ie holiday). I'm not sure if my company would allow (I don't think they would) a digital nomad type set up for example.
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Bell curve your life. Kill yourself now and retire at 45 :D
 
Today I went for a morning swim, got home at 8:50 ready for work, went on a walk at lunch + showered, took some deliveries… went to the post office to return some defective things.

All stuff I take for granted but not possible with going in to the office.
 
Nitefly said:
Today I went for a morning swim, got home at 8:50 ready for work, went on a walk at lunch + showered, took some deliveries… went to the post office to return some defective things.

All stuff I take for granted but not possible with going in to the office.
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You mustnt be in a big picture 45k year role working for scams wife!
 
a1ex2001 said:
Grammar schools fix nothing they just in grain social disadvantage, this issue is investing sufficiently in education to give everyone the best chance of achieving their potential and helping people find opportunities in life.
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Not true that they fix nothing. They at minimum allow some working class and middle class people to compete with privately educated wealthy people. All that's happened after axing most of them is that the separation between the wealthy and everyone else has increased. That's a vicious circle - a good part of our political elite including several prime ministers were of reasonably modest means and grammar school educated. Now look at the profile and extrapolate who they are going to be looking out for.
 
EvilRob said:
Not true that they fix nothing. They at minimum allow some working class and middle class people to compete with privately educated wealthy people. All that's happened after axing most of them is that the separation between the wealthy and everyone else has increased. That's a vicious circle - a good part of our political elite including several prime ministers were of reasonably modest means and grammar school educated. Now look at the profile and extrapolate who they are going to be looking out for.
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The eton/oxbridge mix at the top of politics says more about the rise of the career politician than anything else. Grammar schools just condemn late bloomers and the poor to a second class education and it would be even worse these days with the middle classes blowing a fortune on booster classes and tutors you only have to look at the areas of the country that still have grammar schools to see this in action it’s hideous.
 
EvilRob said:
Not true that they fix nothing. They at minimum allow some working class and middle class people to compete with privately educated wealthy people. All that's happened after axing most of them is that the separation between the wealthy and everyone else has increased. That's a vicious circle - a good part of our political elite including several prime ministers were of reasonably modest means and grammar school educated. Now look at the profile and extrapolate who they are going to be looking out for.
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Grammer schools are mostly populated by wealthy middle class kids that have been tutored for 11+ test since age 7. The local comprehensive then ends up with the poorest and least able kids gets terrible results and no funding
 
a1ex2001 said:
The eton/oxbridge mix at the top of politics says more about the rise of the career politician than anything else. Grammar schools just condemn late bloomers and the poor to a second class education and it would be even worse these days with the middle classes blowing a fortune on booster classes and tutors you only have to look at the areas of the country that still have grammar schools to see this in action it’s hideous.
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Disagree, it says more about the education and opportunities working and middle class people are getting. It's sad how many people in this country will do anything to keep working and middle class people firmly in their places instead of going after the elite and wealthy. Let's just keep dragging everyone who has the potential to make something of themselves down.
Grammar schools have become ultra competitive because they are so rare, it never used to be like that to the degree it is now.
 
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mattx4 said:
Grammer schools are mostly populated by wealthy middle class kids that have been tutored for 11+ test since age 7. The local comprehensive then ends up with the poorest and least able kids gets terrible results and no funding
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Errrmm I don't think that's totally fair
 
I don't like working from home as I'm a people person and zoom or teams doesn't cut it.
I was in my role a year before I actually saw what people looked like at a works do!! And I've not seen them since as no work do's.
Saves time and money commuting I know, but it is a lonely time. I can do what I want, when I want as I have complete flexibility which is great but I struggle unless I'm really busy. But I'm so organised I'm actually rarely snowed under. Last month I did a month's work in a week to help them out because I was going on holiday....
But one perk - I get to go to my local motorbike meet and have an extended lunch with mates. :D
And it saves me money... I walk to shop 200m away and have a chicken salad, yoghurt and Costa Coffee meal deal.
Saves me £100+ and about 100hrs commuting every month...
 
dlockers said:
Depends on the leg up the job can offer you. I had an offer of a place 5miles away @ 14k or 50 miles away @ 14.5k. I took the latter and if I hadn't; I'd still have been churning away in the low 40s I reckon.
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I've been thinking about this a lot though, if you mean 50 miles each way that's an extra 2 hours a day in commuting, which is 1000 a month, so over the year it's essentially costing you 20k of your time to get to work.

Edited to add above, apparently you also need to be 6 foot 5 as anything else is too short for women :rolleyes: :p .
 
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Dalandius said:
If you believe some media then if your a man and want to attract a woman you need to be on at least 100K a year.
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Part of me believes that this could be a true ‘ideal fantasy’ desire, much like I imagine men may want their women to ideally be size 6.

^ it’s very unlikely anyone would shun a relationship for not meeting this criteria, but it’s a nice to have!
 
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Nitefly said:
Part of me believes that this could be a true ‘ideal fantasy’ desire, much like I imagine men may want their women to ideally be size 6.

^ it’s very unlikely anyone would shun a relationship for not meeting this criteria, but it’s a nice to have!
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What kind of person is happy with a partner who's prime motivation is their salary? It doesn't sound like a solid basis for a fruitful relationship.
 
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