Osborne plans lower public sector salaries outside of the south

chewmylegoff

All depends how much you earn doesnt it. I reckons I'd have more disposable income in London as if I worked in Newcastle my salary would be roughly 40% of what it is now.

chucknorris

chewmylegoff wrote: »

All depends how much you earn doesnt it. I reckons I'd have more disposable income in London as if I worked in Newcastle my salary would be roughly 40% of what it is now.

60% less? If I was still a QS I reckon I would earn about 30% less.

But my real income came from my businesses which were South East/London based so the NE was never really an option from a financial point of view. My previous comment was based on Mr Average who simply relies upon a career for income.

Not forgetting of course that you pay 50% tax on income over 150k (although that might go in the budget) and the equivalent of 60% between 100k and about 115k.

chewmylegoff

chucknorris wrote: »

60% less? If I was still a QS I reckon I would earn about 30% less.

But my real income came from my businesses which were South East/London based so the NE was never really an option from a financial point of view. My previous comment was based on Mr Average who simply relies upon a career for income.

Not forgetting of course that you pay 50% tax on income over 150k (although that might go in the budget) and the equivalent of 60% between 100k and about 115k.

yes, about 60% less than i earn now, as my job only really exists in london (or any other 'financial capital') and if i moved oop north i would have to do some bog standard audit or financial controller job. if i couldnt commute into london i'd take an enormous hit straight away, and that gap would just get worse and worse over the next 10 years, at which point i'd probably be on 4-5 times more in london than the amount i would earn anywhere else, assuming i continue to progress at the current rate.

MissMoneypenny

pqrdef wrote: »

What makes you think benefits won't be cut as well? They'll have to be. Just a question of working out how.

Already done; the Welfare Bill has been approved.

The great unwashed are already planning a march in London - on a Monday (no danger of any of them being at work then).
The able bodied parents don't like the fact that they are being asked to work 24 hours a week between them from next month to help keep their families, instead of just the 16 hours a week they have been working between them to "maximise their benefits".

Just wait for the screams next year when those hours per week will be increased again and lots of condtions put on them too, under the new Universal Credit.

abaxas

So basically all non local services move from the South to the North?

Will there be anything left in London/SE?

vivatifosi

abaxas wrote: »

So basically all non local services move from the South to the North?

Will there be anything left in London/SE?

Should I go out now and buy one of those doer upper terraced houses that you see on HUTH for about £10k? For that matter, should we all go out no and buy one of those doer upper terraced houses?

MissMoneypenny

Emy1501 wrote: »

Teaching 16 children from mainly privileged backgrounds I suspect is a lot easier than teaching 30 kids from a rough housing estate.

Gone are the days when all private school children come from privileged backgrounds. My aunt taught at a private school for 40 years and said that in the later years, she found that the doctors, solicitors etc, are sending their children to high achieveing state schools (graded classes) and then she got the children of farmers, builders, plumbers etc.

As she said, "you can't make a silk purse from a sows ear". Although I added, "but you can make a sausage".

Just to confirm, there were lots of solicitors, hospital consultants children etc, at my childrens' state school. The thicko farmer who lived next door to me and could barely write, sent his two children to a private school. Although he did admit he had done it as he thought they would get left too far behind at the state school, just as he did.

Graham_Devon

chewmylegoff wrote: »

£160 will buy you over 1,000 miles worth of petrol, I don't know what the average commute in a car is, but that will get you a 45 mile round trip a day.

Yes, exactly. Not far.

It's a long way in London, granted. But 20 miles to work isn't that far in other areas. Secondly, you are only looking at petrol. There are other costs, the cost of buying the car, insurance, service, repairs, tyres, parking, road tax. You are soon way over £160.

Emy1501

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

Gone are the days when all private school children come from privileged backgrounds. My aunt taught at a private school for 40 years and said that in the later years, she found that the doctors, solicitors etc, are sending their children to high achieveing state schools (graded classes) and then she got the children of farmers, builders, plumbers etc.

As she said, "you can't make a silk purse from a sows ear". Although I added, "but you can make a sausage".

Just to confirm, there were lots of solicitors, hospital consultants children etc, at my childrens' state school. The thicko farmer who lived next door to me and could barely write, sent his two children to a private school. Although he did admit he had done it as he thought they would get left too far behind at the state school, just as he did.

A child born to a builder or plumber with money is privileged. I know a few parents who send their kids to private schools. They send them because the school can pick and choose who they take and kids are 16 per class. Their children do not have to mix with the local riff raff from the estate as they say I don't think th odd builder or plumber who probably runs their own business is going bother them.

Joe_Bloggs

abaxas said:-

So basically all non local services move from the South to the North?

Will there be anything left in London/SE?

The BBC have gone / are nearly gone to Salford. The HMRC went to the North east England. DVLC is in Swansea. What are the wages in Afghanistan ? This policy is electoral suicide if it is true.
J_B.