Brain recalibration - a cost of living/modern life thread

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,587

    I’ve recently been approached to see if I’d be interested in a job and the salary would be 43% higher than I’m on now so it’s obviously tempting. However, I chucked the salary I was on when I started a very similar role with a similar sized company back in March 2016 into the BoE inflation calculator and if my salary had increased in line with inflation since then I would actually be earning £6k more a year than is on offer with this role.

  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,458

    If you had said 2016 that the minimum wage for an 21 year old would be almost 24k I'd have said you were mad.

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,480
    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/21083123#Comment_21083123

    FWIW I'd say doing a "sliding doors" comparison is pointless and futile. If you're happy you're happy. If you're not happy do something about it.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,587
    edited July 14
    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/21083186#Comment_21083186

    Sure, as I’ve said before where I am now has come from conscious decisions regarding work life balance. I was just surprised to see how much further on salaries have gone. Even allowing for the change to my current job and salary cut I took, I’d previously only had one pay rise which was less than 2% between early 2016 and late 2022.

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