What's a good salary?

I know this is a hard maybe even impossible question because it depends on a lot of variables.

However, realistically what's a good/average/bad salary?

The reason I ask is that a friend of mine said his mum was on a salary of roughly £19,000 and said that's an excellent salary. Yet, I know someone who's on a salary of roughly £35,000 and they say it's average.

Personally, I'd say;

£5k-£15k is not enough, 16k-30k is average, 30k-60k is good 60k-90k is excellent and 90K plus is the bees knees!

But, I just want to see what other peoples opinions are of what a good/bad etc salary is :smile:

Thanks, Steve

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Reply 1

Silver Aurora

£20,023.67 is a good salary IMO

Reply 2

Elwyn

Depends what area you live in and whether you have any dependents such as children and/or a partner who doesn't work.

Personally, a good salary to me would be £35k a year.

Reply 3

jennifer.tariah

I think it would be around.. 40k per annum

Reply 4

Sam Walters

40 upwards. I think the average is about 30k isnt it?

Negs! It was on the bbc website!

"According to ASHE, "mean" gross annual earnings across all employee jobs in 2008 came to £26,020. You may think that's rather a high "average" salary. And if you look just at the figures for full-time employees, that figure rises to £31,323"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8151355.stm

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Reply 5

Quady

The numbers in the OP sound reasonable brackets.

It depends on personal circumstance somewhat, there will be people who say 'but I live on £10k a year and I'm fine so £12k is a good salary'. By definition anyone on under £25k is on less than the average salary so that can't be classed as 'good', it has to be higher.

Reply 6

Great Lord Xenu

To Wikipedia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom

Reply 7

Felchingman

I'm in a school full of rich kids, and well with my parents earning a combined £120,000 , I'm on the bottom end of wealth. And my house sucks --> beauty of living in London.
In London, alone, a good salary starts at 60k.

EDIT : why all the negging? ok I shouldn't have said that my house "sucked", but hey it's old, hot water is a pain in the a***, and walls are so thin, we can hear the neighbours (both sides) talking.

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£20,000+

What jobs do your parents have?

Reply 10

Lee Moon 89

Original post by Felchingman

What jobs do your parents have?

Reply 11

JollyGreenAtheist

Average salary is about £23k, anything above that is good.

Reply 12

username782284

I'd pretty much agree with what the OP says, a good salary is anything around £20,000 and up.

Reply 13

Quady

Original post by Lee Moon 89

What jobs do your parents have?

Does it matter?

If they said civil servants, management consultants or theatre stars what would you do with the information?

Reply 14

Golden_Boy786

In Britain alone 40K beyond is good but need to consider the tax and other costs.

Reply 15

Lee Moon 89

Original post by JollyGreenAtheist

Average salary is about £23k, anything above that is good.

Is that average for a college/University student or average for an everyday job such as a cinema worker, garden center worker, ASDA staff?

Original post by Quady

Does it matter?

If they said civil servants, management consultants or theatre stars what would you do with the information?

No it doesn't PARTICUALLY matter I'm just curious as this is a heck of a lot of money, why does it matter to you that I ask, ?

Reply 16

Anrel

Depends on the job, and how much hard you have to work for your money.

Reply 17

JollyGreenAtheist

Original post by Lee Moon 89

Is that average for a college/University student or average for an everyday job such as a cinema worker, garden center worker, ASDA staff?

National average

Reply 18