what would you say is a 'good' salary?

Around £40k annual would be good. Decent would be £30k annual.

£100, 000 is DECENT? are you mad?

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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.

People claiming that 100k+ is decent obviously have their heads stuck up in the clouds where having 2 cars, top notch computers, seasonly holidays and large mortgage-paid houses are mandatory.

This post makes a lot of sense. (No pressure for us then!) Then again your ignoring the factor that many of todays youth still have their grand parents, families etc. who may leave them tidy sums and property, which i also think is common for the lucky ones in the generation above ours. I know many people in their 30's who barely work yet seem to have a nice house etc.

well som1 earning 10k would probably get quite alot of benifits from the government, so they probably would live of 10k (e.g. low or free rent, discounted council tax etc)...