Would you say 40k a year is a good salary? What salary would you be happy with?

maxfire is jealous that he lives is Surbiton, not London.
yes, i mean central london, willy.

Surbiton is South London, douche.

lost humour is lost.

Of course it's a good salary, considering the national average. I can't believe so many people seem to be turning their noses up at this amount of money!

Do you not think that is a bit presumptuous, considering that most families in London live on much less?

Not at all. I like to live comfortably, and would like to provide my kids nice things. Life is not easy nor much fun with little money, especially in London.

In my current situation I'd probably be happy with that. But I'd like to be able to afford a cleaner once a week when I have children and some other "unnecessary things", so I'd be happier with something around 80-90k. Tbh that's all dreams though. I might never earn more than 25k, who knows?!

If I hadn't just used my rep up, I'd neg you.

Of COURSE it's a good salary. It's way above the national average, why are people acting like it's a low salary? The majority of us are going to earn less than that.

You'd be able to get a cleaner on £40k

I'd love to have £40k and be single, £40k for me and a partner would still be great.

I mean my mum earns like £32k before tax. Right now it's me, my mum and a friend living here(she pays £100 a week to cover food, bills, etc, we're not sure how much bills have gone up but it was an agreed thing with her family).

We have sky+ tv downstairs, virgin media in my room with one of those landline and fast 20mb broadband packages. We used to have a cleaner once a week too, but now we're home more she's decided to stop doing that since I and my friend can do that and not have it cost what ever it was. We usually go abroad once a year, we aren't this summer but it's more there's no real time to do it, so instead we're having odd days out like going to london to visit museums and such. Yeah there's some home improvements we'd like done but we can;t really afford them at the moment but we live pretty darn comfortably in my opinion, I;d be happy to be able to have the kind of life style I have now and I'm older, so £30k would be fine for me by myself.

I have no idea what kind of salary I'm going to end up with, since I haven't decided exactly what career I want, the options will be quite varied. Either a researcher, preferrably involved in arachnids, maybe with trips to exotic areas to study them or at an airport. Yeah it sounds odd but basically you get quite a few exotic animals illegally shipped over and the bigger airports have special rooms to keep and care for these animals until rescue centres can deal with them. Working in a place like that would be a dream job, yeah some say I'm not aiming high enough but it's a job that would make me happy. I'd imagine after a few years with a job like that I'd be on £25-30, probably get more as a researcher after enough years then the other job, unless my role becomes managerial.

If we are talking wage over the span of my career then no. Nothing to do with "the lifestyle im used to", I grew up in a single parent family and my mum was on less than £20k. I went to a state school.
But, I earn (roughly) that amount now, and I would be severly disappointed if this is the peak of my income as I would still like to be better off than I am now in terms of disposable income.
I am hoping to get maybe £60k/pa - possibly more, on the agreement with my hubby that if we ever have kids he is the one to stay home and look after them.