How much do you earn?...

[duranman]

You Yanks are apparently proud and candid about your income. To start the ball rolling I'm a Limey glorified salesman earning around £100k a year ($140,000 I think) and regarded over here as middle class, though I certainly wasn't born that way...

 

[Killswitch]

I earn, it all.

 

[Fata Morgana]

These two twats will be jizzing over their fake wage slips all night.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Middle class are business owners, youre middle income. Money doesn't change one's class.

 

[Ajax_Prime]

That will SOUND like a lot to most folks in the States, but you live in London...

 

[duranman]

That will SOUND like a lot to most folks in the States, but you live in London...

Which means?....

 

[SkAoUt]

Which means?....

Your wage is relative to the cost of living in London I believe is what he's pointing out.

I'm not playing specifics but there was a stretch where I was making a shit tonne of money for a pretty low skilled job. Its over now and yeah, I'm not making fuck all anymore which I'm more than fine with.

 

[parodyluvr75]

Not enough.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Middle class are business owners, youre middle income. Money doesn't change one's class.

Keep telling yourself that JBJ....in the real world everyone else judges you by what a broke ass bitch you are, not if you have a DBA or not.

That will SOUND like a lot to most folks in the States, but you live in London...

Depends on where in the states.....that doesn't even cover rent in a number of big cities here....

 

[PattiJolene]

Not enough lol!

 

[Liar]

I have semi-low income by western standards, in a semi-high cost-of-living area. But that's by choice. I could earn twice what I do if I needed the money. But I choose to keep my work week at 20-30 hours, plus only say yes to the fun jobs. The benefit of being self employed with a demand surplus for my sercvices.

It's extra money vs quality of life. For which time is more valueable than cash.

 

[lovecraft68]

Pretty good, but that includes money from e-bay and e-book sales to go along with the full time job.

I could have made more, but turned down a promotion that would have been a lot more stress to go with the money.

My wife does far better so....I am content to ride her coat tails

 

[Ajax_Prime]

Your wage is relative to the cost of living in London I believe is what he's pointing out.

Exactly. using a broad brush, £100k/yr in London doesn't get you as far as say, £50k/yr in Topeka, KS.

 

[Riles]

I work crazy long hours to make ends meet and build a little something for my kids and I. What I got in the equalization payment has been put aside for their education and into some small investments to hopefully help it grow a little and my down payment on my home. I don't mind living on a budget, I'm good at it and I like feeling in control of my life. The industry I am in puts my annual income between 35 to 43K a year. Modest, but we're comfortable and don't want for anything.

 

[Hypoxia]

I don't earn anything now. Everything I have is stolen. Life is good.

 

[duranman]

I work crazy long hours to make ends meet and build a little something for my kids and I. What I got in the equalization payment has been put aside for their education and into some small investments to hopefully help it grow a little and my down payment on my home. I don't mind living on a budget, I'm good at it and I like feeling in control of my life. The industry I am in puts my annual income between 35 to 43K a year. Modest, but we're comfortable and don't want for anything.

Nice post. It's a cliché of course but quality of life counts for everything and it's about that balance: we all have the bank account of time, 24 hours a day and it's how we choose to spend it. Most Londoners have mortgages so big it swallows up most of their wages before they start living. We're ridiculously over populated with a large percentage still used to getting welfare benefit for doing nothing. The rest are workaholics living on anti depressants or very rich Russians and Arabs inflating properties in Chelsea. But at least we're the beautiful people....

 

[dolf]

my income is fucking pitiful. pretty much minimum wage, zero hours contract, and i'm not paid for travel time or the gaps between jobs.

but I love my work, i'm helping to make life better for the most vulnerable people, the old and disabled and dying. and I charmed myself an affordable rent, so I can make ends meet. I think it's good that my kids are learning how to live well on little, and whenever I've come into money it's gone into their savings accounts for their futures. their dad covers school expenses & clothing & weekly allowances, so they don't miss out.

there's more to life than money.

 

[duranman]

my income is fucking pitiful. pretty much minimum wage, zero hours contract, and i'm not paid for travel time or the gaps between jobs.

but I love my work, i'm helping to make life better for the most vulnerable people, the old and disabled and dying. and I charmed myself an affordable rent, so I can make ends meet. I think it's good that my kids are learning how to live well on little, and whenever I've come into money it's gone into their savings accounts for their futures. their dad covers school expenses & clothing & weekly allowances, so they don't miss out.

there's more to life than money.

That's right. Imagine given a choice of £5million or a clitoris....

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The question is, at what point in our lives and how much of it is from actual labor or accrued Capital.



And as pointed out above, we have been in your (if true) neighborhood for more than two decades, but our cost of living is, I'll wager, substantially lower than yours, so we are basically comparing apples to oranges.

 

[dolf]

That's right. Imagine given a choice of £5million or a clitoris....

i'd take the money. I prefer sex to orgasms.

 

[may_I_please]

As a family we earn enough to be able to allow me to do a job I value for a lot less than I previously made

Which makes me far more fortunate than many

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I've always been thrifty. Not cheap or stingy, thrifty. Like, the rolls I love cost 50 cents less where I buy them. My grapefruit juice costs 30 cents less at the other place. Eggs are a dollar less at a 3rd store. It adds up.

My car is 15 years old, with few miles on its odometer. I drive maybe 3000 miles per year. Enough for one oil change. But parts are hard to find, so a new car is in my future. Still, a car is transportation, that's it.

Bills are no problem. If I want something I go buy it.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I was making good money for my area before I got laid off. Now I make about half of what I was but now I'm in a shop learning to be a machinist so it may have worked out for the better.

 

[glynndah]

I make very little, minimum wage and part-time at that. My income last year was less than my husband paid in income tax.

 

[Lord Pmann]

My wife and I both make good wages. I'm not a 100%er though. But we do well. And we live in a relatively low cost area.

We also have no debt at all. No house payment. No car payments. We own everything without payments, so we just invest a lot. We also don't have kids, which allows us a lot of leftover cash.

I'd say the key to financial freedom is no payments. Or minimal payments. I think that's more important than a high wage. I know tons of people making $150k a year who are broke.