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Discuss your salary

ruggedtoast
ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
Guardian readers talking about their salaries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/15/peoples-panel-salaries-pay

Anyone care to join in here; no? Go on.

You know you want to.
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Comments

  • Procrastinator333
    Procrastinator333 Posts: 1,694 Forumite
    I like antifrank. Good post of his.
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,899 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Name Dropper
    I like wireduck's comment:

    "However, if my bosses suddenly decided to impose a massive pay cut, I fear I'd be furious. Not because of what I could no longer afford. But because of the drop in status. And this is the crucial point in the great pay debate. Over a certain amount, money ceases to be a means of acquiring things but becomes solely about keeping score. It's a !!!!!!-measuring contest and money is the tape measure."

    So is this thread meant to be a !!!!!! measuring contest?
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  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    edited 15 October 2010 at 10:13AM
    silvercar wrote: »

    So is this thread meant to be a !!!!!! measuring contest?

    I don't know, do we need to know how fancy a car one drives?

    P.s I drive a Ford Ranger more for dafety than for the safety than the sexual pull
    2007_Ford_Ranger_2.jpg
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • Radiantsoul
    Radiantsoul Posts: 2,096 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    silvercar wrote: »
    So is this thread meant to be a !!!!!! measuring contest?

    In that case...11 inches.
  • Pete111
    Pete111 Posts: 5,333 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Interesting.

    I wish we had more like that Bookfay bloke working here. It's review time and I'm up to my ears in 'they need 20% more or they'll leave' demands from Dept heads

    That said it's quite enjoyable saying. 'Ok then I guess, I'd better call my Recruitment manager in to this meeting' or even better 'fine but it comes out of your bonus'...
    Go round the green binbags. Turn right at the mouldy George Elliot, forward, forward, and turn left....at the dead badger
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Its interesting...but not terribly...revealing. the talk about impact on other areas of life is fairly limited.

    I think a graduate talking about being ''embarrassed'' to earn more then 17k is a little depressing tbh...in the scale of average salaries and when state support drops off etc.
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Radiantsoul wrote: »
    In that case...11 inches.

    lol, that's why women are such poor parkers, people like you tell them that
    I
    I is 6 inches ;)
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    The average salary in the UK is meant to be around £30,000. However this is a mean. I suspect the median salary in the SE to be well below this for people in their 20s.

    I live in one of the most affluent parts of the Home Counties and a local report recently stated the average local salary is £19,000. Whereas the average local house price is about £220,000.

    As I'm now buying one however I'm burgered if I want them to drop.

    First time buyers better blinking well find somewhere to take on more debt.

    >:-[
  • Pete111
    Pete111 Posts: 5,333 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    lostinrates wrote: »
    Its interesting...but not terribly...revealing. the talk about impact on other areas of life is fairly limited.

    I think a graduate talking about being ''embarrassed'' to earn more then 17k is a little depressing tbh...in the scale of average salaries and when state support drops off etc.[/QUOTE]


    I couldn't agree more. A 26 YO graduate earning well under £10 an hour and describing it as 'too high a salary' is almost too worthy to take seriously!

    I assume they are not based in the South East...
    Go round the green binbags. Turn right at the mouldy George Elliot, forward, forward, and turn left....at the dead badger
  • torontoboy45
    torontoboy45 Posts: 1,064 Forumite
    Radiantsoul wrote: »
    In that case...11 inches.
    did you fold it in half?
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