[Sticky] Poll: What do you earn?

Significantly less that 12 months ago but massively happier. 

Hours worked and free time should be included  old saying money rich time poor.,,🫢

I've clicked on personal income rather than joint with the wife..

Enough to be relatively fine at the moment, providing I can stay in work

Using dark mode (latest android) and all options are unreadable as the text appears to be the same colour as the background.

Since my farcical ESA phone assessment for long covid ~15 months ago, I've been using my postie ill health retirement settlement money and now what little savings I have.

It's your poll and all....but.

Personal income vs household income. I guess personal income might give you some interesting insight into what we collectively do for a living (how many on a professional wage or own companies etc). Household income I'd say would be a way more interesting question to ask if you had been interested in expendable income and 'lived lifestyle'. That's the question I would have asked.

Just to say, I'm not the person who ticked the >200k ! 😀

Assuming annual income rather annual salary (the joys of retirement 😉 )

Mainly money.
Very occasionally, respect.

Ooooooohhhhh you meant "how much do you earn?"

Household income is useful and may be the subject of another poll. This one will let us compare our demographics to the national averages. In advertsing pitches and media packs it's common to compare an audience to the national average. eg. 15% above national average and the like.

It's your poll and all....but.

There are probably lots of ways you could cut it.  Going by the pension threads, you'd imagine there are also plenty of people who might answer the question "what WAS your salary before you retired at 55 with a shed full of carbon bikes" very differently to how they'd state their current income, too...

Just to say, I'm not the person who ticked the >200k ! 😀

Don't worry, captainflashheart probably found time in his busy niche footwear modelling and paperclip entrepreneurism to pop in and keep us grounded.

At the moment bugger all ☹️

Does redundancy count ?

Or should it be joint income ? We equally share our money

joint income and number of kids would be useful 

(ive got 4 kids and they are expensive)

So far, after 100 votes, and taking the mid points in each range, the average is coming out around £59k

I earn zero.

Small occupational pension.  Small income from a rental property.   Very small income from investments

None of that is earned unless you see the pension as  deferred income from when i was working

Asking what your income is would make more sense

£59k

Always nice to know you are substandard 😁

Posted by: ScotRoutes

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Assuming annual income rather annual salary (the joys of retirement 😉 )

I concur. 

Posted by: tjagain

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Asking what your income is would make more sense

I earn from my pension income. 

Posted by: Mark Alker

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So far, after 100 votes, and taking the mid points in each range, the average is coming out around £59k

@Mark

...I'd not worry about whacking your sub-rates up a bit! 🤣

Ive put my income in.

All the tradesmen would like to know whether to include the cash in hand jobs?

All the IT contractors would like to know whether to include dividends or just the minimal salary they pay themselves?

Posted by: the-muffin-man

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Posted by: Mark Alker

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So far, after 100 votes, and taking the mid points in each range, the average is coming out around £59k

 

@Mark

...I'd not worry about whacking your sub-rates up a bit! 🤣

 

Yeah but none of them can afford £20 a month to watch Cycling 🙂 

All those cliches about overpaid IT mtbers appear to be true!

Just out of interest, I put a screenshot of the numbers into ChatGPT, to see if it could extract the text and give me an average salary (it could - pretty impressive really, I doubt it could have managed a year or two ago).

Then I asked it to guess who these people were, and what common interest united them.  It suggested a few options, then plumped for.... a forum for IT professionals 🤔 

Yeah but none of them can afford £20 a month to watch Cycling 🙂 

thought it was at least £30? 
wasn’t the £20/month the best you could do if you already had sky, had a family Vodafone plan, were a Sagittarius, and agreed to 2 years upfront?

Posted by: weeksy

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Yeah but none of them can afford £20 a month to watch Cycling

I wouldn't watch cycling on TV if you paid me £20 a month!

Now run one on annual tax paid.

Not surprised this is coming out at way above national median - @Mark if you don't mind sharing, what does this mean for STW from a selling ads point of view? I assume people pay more or is it more that you attract different types of advertisers?

'Can't afford' & 'not wanting to pay for something you don't think is good value for money' are very different things.

I could afford an E-bike.....

Doesn't it mean the IT professionals are clustered round that 50, 60k mark? Which is normally what they earn.

I could afford an E-bike.....

I am going to check your baserate and compare it to mine. It better be bloody similar.

Being a Johnny Foreigner I stuck in my salary with the current exchange rate but its maybe not that accurate as I know I earn more than my UK counterparts due to different tax rates/cost of living etc.

Posted by: Josh

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I could afford an E-bike.....

I am going to check your baserate and compare it to mine. It better be bloody similar.

😂

I'm lucky as my wife earns more than me. I'm also old and don't have to pay for barbers any more...

Posted by: wbo

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Doesn't it mean the IT professionals are clustered round that 50, 60k mark? Which is normally what they earn.

Only the shit ones. I was earning more than that 17 years ago when I took early retirement.

Maybe the average will come down tonight as all the daytime votes are all IT pros sat at their desks, bored waiting for stuff to compile 🙂

Posted by: tjagain

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I earn zero.

 

Small occupational pension

You get paid to do nothing if you so wish. That's what I tell my wife when it's pension pay day

Living from disability benefits I’m in the £10k-£20k, so does that mean I’ll get targeted adds for charity shops, food banks etc?

😉

Benchmark here:  https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2024

Median for "IT business analysts, architects and systems designers" in the dropdown menu (FIGURE7) is £54905.

>15% on ~£100k or more.  Wow.  Imagine their C2W discount!  

Posted by: Convert

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£59k

Always nice to know you are substandard 😁

My household is substandard!

Only the shit ones. I was earning more than that 17 years ago when I took early retirement.

Mods, please can you reset SR's account. I think it's been hacked by an £#@&hole!

Retired 6 years ago and living off saving/inheritance, we live off much less than most but "money doesn't buy you happiness" 

It's a good job STW staff aren't posting on here, that'd drag the average down a little... 

Posted by: Chipps

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It's a good job STW staff aren't posting on here, that'd drag the average down a little... 

We all know you get a free 10k bike a week  chipps.

I'm a Firefighter so get what we get. Think it's about 37k now? Pension costs nearly £400 pm though so that makes a dent but then I get to retire early. Some opportunity for over time but not that much.

Wife earns more than me, she just tips in to the higher tax bracket.

Im lucky as my wife earns more than me. I'm also old and don't have to pay for barbers any more.

Ha. Me too.

Posted by: Chipps

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It's a good job STW staff aren't posting on here, that'd drag the average down a little

I thought they all drive Maserati’s!!* 🤣

(Old STW joke - but the Maserati adds now seem like they were appropriate looking at the salaries above!)

Pension would also be an interesting part of it.  Quite a few people over 45 might be lucky enough to have a final salary pension which is paid almost entirely by their employer.  Yes they can make additional contributions, but it’s optional.  Many people under 4( will be reducing their income by having to contributed 6-15%.