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what would you say is a 'good' salary?

Reply 20

Jackster1234

Six figures.
Anything above 1,000,000 is gravy

Reply 21

MagicNMedicine

20

chany

not getting out of bed for anything less that 35k

how much would you get in bed for? :shifty:

Reply 22

lolololol

17

I'd like to earn about £40k.

Reply 23

sixthformer

Danielle89

In my pre-registrationg training year next year I'll be earning £21K, which is amazing IMVHO for a graduate job where I'm not even fully qualified, just training to be placed on the pharmacy board. Assuming I get through the pre-registration exam, in two years from now I could be earning about £35-40K. I'd say that's brilliant, but I'll be in a position of great responsibility and trust so it's fair that I get paid that. Also if I hit targets concerning services and things I'll get bonuses that can be around 10% of my salary

What job's that?
ps. to be honest, we should all be gratefull for our health. look at people with cancer, or in poverty? how must life be for them? although i admire those with cancer who fight it

Reply 24

username202122

14

I guess I wouldnt complain with £30k a year, but would prefer twice that if I'm being honest.

Reply 25

ChocoLoco

9

£60,000 is acceptable

£100,000 is more than decent

£250k+ your rich.

Reply 26

JakeE10

OP

13

do you need really amazing GCSE and A Level results to earn a salary of about 40k? is this true??

Reply 27

Svenjamin

17

JakeE10

do you need real high GCSE grades and A Level grades to get a decent paid job? is this true? (earning about 40k?) and i mean all A's and A*'s

Once you're in the working world, GCSEs and A levels are pretty much irrelevant. Even a degree is of questionable importance once you've worked for a few years. Once you have experience and valuable skills then the grades you got years and years ago don't matter. Education's just there to prepare you for the next stage, nothing more than that.

Reply 28

CuteStar*

11

50k+
You need to have a good house, be able to pay the bills, have a nice car and be able to take holidays :smile:

Reply 29

little_wizard123

19

I'm happy with the money I'm getting for doing a PhD, which is £13,590. As a student, rent and bills is a few hundred a month, with no council tax, makes it very good. If both people in a relationship are earning £15k, then imo that gives a very comfortable life. People are being a bit OTT with their definition of comfortable.

Reply 30

inksplodge

17

i would say £25k is a good salary when you have bills etc to pay

(edited 15 years ago)

Reply 31

ily_em

17

Erm... idk. £25k sounds reasonable!

Reply 32

ish90an

10

Given my grad job, if I am not making 70k+ by the time I am 30 I will be very disappointed.

Reply 33

Tabers

15

For what I want to £20,000 would be a really good salary. I don't care about how much I earn though...protecting and conserving the environment is more important than loads of money.

Reply 34

Jackster1234

JakeE10

do you need real high GCSE grades and A Level grades to get a decent paid job? is this true? (earning about 40k?) and i mean all A's and A*'s

Alan Sugar left school at 16 with no qualifications and is worth £730 million. And there are thousands of other examples

Reply 35

.Ali.

3

JakeE10

??????

£40,000 and upwards. If you're paying higer rate tax (£44,000 c.) you're doing pretty well. This is per person.

Reply 36

ily_em

17

ChocoLoco

£60,000 is acceptable

£100,000 is more than decent

£250k+ your rich.

Whut

When the average salary is £25K, surely £60K is rich? What do you want so much money for?

Reply 37

MagicNMedicine

20

I think for our generation, what classes as a good or decent salary will be a lot higher than it was for our parents (I am not talking just because of inflation)

The previous generation had free university education, relatively cheap property available - how many people do you know who own multiple houses, who have some story of the great bargain they got, eg "I bought this house for £15000 in 1989, and now its worth £300000". That won't happen with us. They also had quite generous pension schemes, so a lot of people reached retirement quite comfortable.

Our generation has big graduate debt, faces very high house prices and pension schemes which will require a lot more input for a bit less output than our parents had.

So taking that into consideration I would have said that for a comfortable life, a combined income for a couple of £55000-60000 is ok at the moment, if you have a couple of kids. With that you can cover all your essentials, have a holiday every year and have a few luxuries.

A combined income of £80000-£100000 then takes you up to the next tier of lifestyle, pretty decent.

Once you pass a combined income of £100000 then you are well off and probably live in a nice area, have two cars, good holidays, send kids to private schools and fund them through uni and a gap yah.

For our generation, if you look at the type of income in todays money (so will obviously be higher in nominal terms when you get there, because of inflation) then you will probably need to be the next tier up to get a comparable lifestyle because you will face much more of your income being swallowed up in repayments of student loan and mortgage, which your parents didn't face.

Single people may find it almost impossible to get onto the housing market although if they don't have kids they will find one of the big big expenses of the future, disappears. Childless couples will be able to enjoy a better lifestyle.

Reply 38

olibishop

6

Since the average salary is about 25k I believe, you would have to say that 30k is good. Although 30k would get you **** all when you have a mortgage, kids, bills etc so. With a good degree, I'd like to earn 60k-70k to be comfortable really

Reply 39

hattie1993

it is personal, right? the minimum amount of money required to allow to follow your passion and make you happy and for some people no amount will ever be enough!

what would you say is a 'good' salary?

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