Discuss your salary

StevieJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can never say how much I earn, because right now I look at my screen and it says: £0.01. So, 9am and today I have earnt 1p. This is a significant increase over when I checked 30 minutes ago and it said £0.00.

The clock starts at 8am I think.

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Do you actually pay any tax on your online income?

olly300

Fiddlestick wrote: »

That's because everyone wants the plum jobs though.

I'm sure it's far easier to become a partner in a practice in some remote part of Wales or Scotland.

I doubt it as people live in remote parts of the country for quality of life and GPs now have a great quality of life.

I also know if you want to become a teacher in a remote part of the country then you haven't got a chance. Plus when there use to be a shortage of GPs it was the inner city areas where they had a problem hence the recruitment of doctors from overseas to fill these posts.

Fiddlestick wrote: »

With outcome-based renumeration and all those people to monitor for smoking cessation, alcohol, blood pressure... it must be fairly lucrative.

Yeah I know my own GP is doing very well but he's been a GP for years before Labour introduced their new contract. He gave work experience to one of my friends' as a teenager who is now a doctor.

olly300

StevieJ wrote: »

Do you actually pay any tax on your online income?

She would have to regardless of how she structures herself due to doing the actual work in the UK and living here.

PasturesNew

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I read all of that and I still havent got the faintest idea whatever it is that you do.

£32k a year.

I make stuff up on the Internet and write drivel. People get lost because the Internet's big and they end up where my writing is .... and they get scared and in their rush to escape they click on an advert .... and hey - I just earnt 2p.



I am a web content copywriter. I write words on Internet pages. I am paid for this, either directly (clients), or indirectly (site revenue sharing). I am rather good at it and can usually plonk straight into Google's Top 10 pretty quickly with most things I write about.

PasturesNew

StevieJ wrote: »

Do you actually pay any tax on your online income?

Yes. It's income. I do an annual tax return for it.

I have costs: domain names, hosting.
I have income: £s by cheque, £s into my bank, £s into my Paypal, $s into my Paypal ... and occasional $ cheques (although I hate those).

One minus the other = income.
And on that I pay income tax.
Then there's all that NI stuff.... I pay two lots of that, Classes 2 and 4 I think (not really sure, I just know I pay it).

GoToGal

doire wrote: »

Can i ask what area of IT?

As has already been stated, could be any area - Developers can get about £250 per day, DBA's can get around £250 to £500 per day depending on the environment you are supporting. Business Intelligence Analysts/Consultants can get around £400 - £600 per day. That is the area I'm looking to move into.

Fiddlestick

GoToGal wrote: »

Business Intelligence Analysts/Consultants can get around £400 - £600 per day.

I need to reskill I think

sjaypink

Oh I love these threads. Always put me back in my place

£16K

Possibly soon to be £0. Thanks George.

Have to pop out a few more kids- rake it in in benefits instead, move to a nice big cheap council house........... :A

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

I'm on around 55K, Mrs McT around 45K, and we get performance bonuses of up to 25% of basic salary.

Plus company cars, pension contributions, share schemes, etc.

nembot

I've seen this thread a number of times and pondered whether to post, the time in nigh as they say so here goes...

I was born and bred in Liverpool, through some of the toughest economic years which may to an extent explain my resistence to governmental blag (not a Thatcher hater, although my roots would suggest otherwise).

Left school at 15 with no qualifications, ironically similar to some university graduates today (no offence intended of course, but in terms of advancement many are stricken with similar challenges to myself all those years ago). After 12 years of different jobs ranging from stacking shelves for minimum wage to working as a fitter in various garages I bought a computer around 1998.

Couple of years messing round (always been a messer) managed to enter corporate IT, 10 years later my income is at around 34k with a decent pension + upto 5k bonus and additional income (6k) from a property I rent out (renting closer to work, so it balances out nicely).

So there you go, from zero not quite to hero - but proof that anything is possible (even for someone like me) and least in my experience the only the restricting factor when it comes to earning potential is you!