Average salary

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited April 2011 in Commuting chat
With all the inflation going on I'm finding hard to pin down what the average salary is.

What would you say is the average salary in:

London
North of England
South of England
Ireland (North/South)
Wales
Scotland

And how much would you say you would need to earn to live comfortably?
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Across the UK it's about £22k.

    No idea regionally.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    The inflation calculation is pretty simple...
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,354
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Ireland (North/South)

    You're up to speed now that these are 2 differerent countries?


    Not just like England and Scotland are different but like France and Spain are different.
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    I would guage that the average salary is low in the south west - maybe 15k to 18k. However, living costs are high due to the amount of second homes and areas of outstanding natural beauty - i.e. ripoff Britain.

    I don't think that kids around Cornwall and Devon have a fighting chance at a well paid job or a house purchase.

    Gets better towards Bristol, but there are still allot of problems around here and Gloucestershire.

    People will always live to their salary, both my wife and I have ery good salaries and we are always skint/in debt.......but we have a lovely house, big car and do an awful lot with kids at the weekends.....
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    The average salary just went up a tiny fraction - got a pay rise today :)
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,391
    All you need to know

    http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=1951
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,354
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    The average salary just went up a tiny fraction - got a pay rise today :)

    Sure it was a pay rise.

    Your personal allowance went up a bit (as did the NI contribution)

    So your take home pay would have went up a bit
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  • Bikequin
    Bikequin Posts: 402
    I think most people would be quite surprised as to how low the average UK salary is.

    I remember being shocked at hearing that if you were a higher rate tax payer it put your household in the top 10% of household income across the country. But this probably goes to demonstrate how clueless I am.
    You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quin.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    The average salary just went up a tiny fraction - got a pay rise today :)

    Sure it was a pay rise.

    Your personal allowance went up a bit (as did the NI contribution)

    So your take home pay would have went up a bit

    Eh?
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,354
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    The average salary just went up a tiny fraction - got a pay rise today :)

    Sure it was a pay rise.

    Your personal allowance went up a bit (as did the NI contribution)

    So your take home pay would have went up a bit

    Eh?

    I assumed you got your pay slip today for your April salary...when you do you'll see your personal allowance has gone up so your take home pay has possibly gone up slighty irrespective of any increase to your actual salary
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    The average salary just went up a tiny fraction - got a pay rise today :)

    Sure it was a pay rise.

    Your personal allowance went up a bit (as did the NI contribution)

    So your take home pay would have went up a bit

    Eh?

    I assumed you got your pay slip today for your April salary...when you do you'll see your personal allowance has gone up so your take home pay has possibly gone up slighty irrespective of any increase to your actual salary

    No - my boss just told me my new salary and my bonus for this year.
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  • alan_sherman
    alan_sherman Posts: 1,157
    "For the tax year ending 5 April 2010 the median gross annual earnings for full-time employees were £25,900, an increase of 0.3 per cent compared with £25,800 in 2009"

    They do break it down by region in the report.

    By rule of thumb reckoning the average house should be only £136,000 then..... :evil:
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No - my boss just told me my new salary and my bonus for this year.


    B... what???? :?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    April = End of the financial year for most organisations.

    If house prices were £136,000 I would buy two and combine them...
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Noooo, I'm poor!


    Relatively speaking of course.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,391
    Interesting that there is about 20-25% difference between the mean and median earnings
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    That's the few very, very wealthy dragging up the mean, against the many, many low paid people dragging the median down, shirley?

    It's always been like that hasn't it?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    bails87 wrote:
    That's the few very, very wealthy dragging up the mean, against the many, many low paid people dragging the median down, shirley?

    It's always been like that hasn't it?

    Oui.

    It's currently getting worse in the UK though.
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  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    Sketchley wrote:
    http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

    p.s. This is wrong I'm worth a lot more than this says!

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  • BG2000
    BG2000 Posts: 517
    If my salary follows my age (e.g. if I'm 30 and I earn £30k) up to about 40 or 45, then I'll be happy. Unfortunately I'm getting older quicker than my salary is going up, but they're not far off....
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    BG2000 wrote:
    If my salary follows my age (e.g. if I'm 30 and I earn £30k) up to about 40 or 45, then I'll be happy. Unfortunately I'm getting older quicker than my salary is going up, but they're not far off....

    Why would that be? You are setting yourself up for misery. What you should be hoping for is to be happy with your salary whatever that salary is. Your age has nothing to do with that. If you can get to a point where you can easily save a decent amount a month, you will be happy. The tricky thing is not to get sucked up into the keeping up with the Jones crap; for example buying a crappy new BMW every 2 years.
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    JZed wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

    p.s. This is wrong I'm worth a lot more than this says!

    Six Sigma Master Black Belt - sounds intriguing - ninja's in IT as well as cycling

    If you find this interesting something is wrong

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,391
    Info filed for pub quiz.
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Sketchley wrote:
    JZed wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

    p.s. This is wrong I'm worth a lot more than this says!

    Six Sigma Master Black Belt - sounds intriguing - ninja's in IT as well as cycling

    If you find this interesting something is wrong

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

    Didn't make it past the first sentence. It would take a special type of person to do it for a living...
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    JZed wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

    p.s. This is wrong I'm worth a lot more than this says!

    Six Sigma Master Black Belt - sounds intriguing - ninja's in IT as well as cycling

    I'm a Six Sigma green belt. It's deeply dull.

    I have too much self respect to want to become a black belt.
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  • navt
    navt Posts: 374
    I measure ones welloff-ness by the number of bikes they own. My boss has 3, I have one. Go figure. I reckon the results of the survey would be the same if we're talking average bikes/household.
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    Asprilla wrote:
    JZed wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

    p.s. This is wrong I'm worth a lot more than this says!

    Six Sigma Master Black Belt - sounds intriguing - ninja's in IT as well as cycling

    I'm a Six Sigma green belt. It's deeply dull.

    I have too much self respect to want to become a black belt.

    But not quite enough to prevent you from becoming a green belt? :D
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    notsoblue wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    JZed wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

    p.s. This is wrong I'm worth a lot more than this says!

    Six Sigma Master Black Belt - sounds intriguing - ninja's in IT as well as cycling

    I'm a Six Sigma green belt. It's deeply dull.

    I have too much self respect to want to become a black belt.

    But not quite enough to prevent you from becoming a green belt? :D

    I was young, naive and I needed the money....
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Asprilla wrote:
    notsoblue wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    JZed wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

    p.s. This is wrong I'm worth a lot more than this says!

    Six Sigma Master Black Belt - sounds intriguing - ninja's in IT as well as cycling

    I'm a Six Sigma green belt. It's deeply dull.

    I have too much self respect to want to become a black belt.

    But not quite enough to prevent you from becoming a green belt? :D

    I was young, naive and I needed the money....

    If you say that into the mirror three times, GregT appears behind you, dressed as Spartacus.
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