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What percentage should we pay individually toward bills?

Wenders1984 · 2022-03-27 07:27:07

We are trying to make the amount we pay each towards our bills more equal. As a couple without children, living together. He earns more than me but currently we pay half each towards bills into our joint account which leaves me with very little left each month. Is there a way to do it so we each pay a percentage of our…

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LittleMissDetermined Posts: 9,651 Forumite

30 March 2022 at 2:41PM edited 30 March 2022 at 2:42PM

We pay ours proportionally (well not quite as I pay a bit more) We basically worked out what % of our household income we earned, and then we paid that proportion of the bill payments.

I earn more, so I pay almost 60% of bills.

We are married though and we don't have a joint account.

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