How much money do you take home after tax each month?

[strung out]

about £4500 a month.

 

[dolly's gal]

about £4500 a month.

economy beans most nights for you then?

 

[Divisive Cotton]

WTF!!

£4001 + x seven

 

[strung out]

WTF!!

£4001 + x seven

i bet that's shattered your working class perceptions of this place

 

[Divisive Cotton]

i bet that's shattered your working class perceptions of this place

oh no, never had perceptions of that

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Wage polls are stupid on Urban, if you do earn a good wage you get fucking hounded down or made to feel guilty.

That's a good idea - give the people names! now!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

4000 after tax is about 75k per year, isn't it?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Still, the majority are between 1 and 2 thousand per month, which in London is definitely not rich...

 

[strung out]

4000 after tax is about 75k per year, isn't it?

is it? shit in that case i'm on nowhere near 4500 a month

 

[Kanda]

2700/month take home
450 in rent/bills
Rest goes on booze/fags/food etc

Xmas bonus month though, woohoo

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

is it? shit in that case i'm on nowhere near 4500 a month

LOL - may have got my maths a little wrong there. Not exactly sure.

 

[strung out]

2700/month take home
450 in rent/bills
Rest goes on booze/fags/food etc

Xmas bonus month though, woohoo

poor you

 

[H.Dot]

Wage polls are stupid on Urban, if you do earn a good wage you get fucking hounded down or made to feel guilty.

innit.

whoever thinks that about me can go f*** themselves, I've been working for 22 years and I spent 7 years doing 70 hour weeks in 19th century conditions before training in what I do now, so I damn well deserve it.

 

[Pieface]

*applauds*

Go H.Dot! Stand up for your bad self!


(I don't think anyone cares really - these are just nosey polls)

 

[zenie]

innit.

whoever thinks that about me can go f*** themselves, I've been working for 22 years and I spent 7 years doing 70 hour weeks in 19th century conditions before training in what I do now, so I damn well deserve it.

I thought you were a nurse?

 

[H.Dot]

I thought you were a nurse?

I am.

I'm very experienced, high up my salary scale, and 75% of my shifts are on nights or weekends, which makes a huge difference to my pay.

 

[Idaho]

innit.

whoever thinks that about me can go f*** themselves, I've been working for 22 years and I spent 7 years doing 70 hour weeks in 19th century conditions before training in what I do now, so I damn well deserve it.

Me thinks the lady protesteth too much

Hehehe... the first thread ever on urban where I feel less middle class than most people

 

[H.Dot]

(I don't think anyone cares really - these are just nosey polls)

just the kind of polls we love, lol

 

[Kanda]

How does a higher wage make you middle class??

 

[H.Dot]

Me thinks the lady protesteth too much

I'm no lady

Hehehe... the first thread ever on urban where I feel less middle class than most people

you should have seen that poll I posted a few years back, where 15% admitted to owning their houses outright! wtf? lol

 

[H.Dot]

How does a higher wage make you middle class??

I think it makes it more likely, but there's far more to to being middle class than just wages, isn't there?

 

[trashpony]

I want to be kanda. His disposable income is high. I don't have much left over after I've paid for stuff. Once childcare kicks in I'm going to be seriously broke

But I get a baby which is better than money

 

[Kanda]

there's far more to to being middle class than just wages, isn't there?

Exactly what I thought.

Yeah, my disposable income is high, because I don't live to the end of my means or own a property etc. I live in a shared delapidated victorian conversion on Brixton Hill, I own a 10 year old car, left school at 15 and worked my arse off till I moved to London and got lucky with my career :/

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

How does a higher wage make you middle class??

Agreed. A plumber on 150k is working class, a teacher on 26k is still middle class.

 

[strung out]

being able to blow half your wages on drugs every month is a good sign of being mc

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I want to be kanda. His disposable income is high. I don't have much left over after I've paid for stuff. Once childcare kicks in I'm going to be seriously broke

But I get a baby which is better than money

I'm going to be in the same boat when i go back to britain after being out of teh country will have to take a really crap admin job to start with

and then eventually do pgce which will mean another year of being skint

but then if i do that i can come back to china and earn serious dough (and be able to save the lot and buy about thirty houses over here - heh well I won't quite do that buit could on the salaries offered)

 

[Idaho]

I want to be kanda. His disposable income is high. I don't have much left over after I've paid for stuff. Once childcare kicks in I'm going to be seriously broke

But I get a baby which is better than money

And you can sell them for a small fortune if things get really tough.

 

[Kanda]

being able to blow half your wages on drugs every month is a good sign of being mc

No, it's a sign of me not giving a fuck about possesions or home ownership etc, not living to the max of my means.

 

[H.Dot]

Agreed. A plumber on 150k is working class, a teacher on 26k is still middle class.

innit.

nurses can be a bit confusing... I earn an <ahem> "middle-class" wage, the so-called Registrar General's scale makes me a "B" (as in AB C1/C2 etc), i.e. up with teachers and middle-management (wtf lol), but most of us come from working-class backgrounds. My dad was a steel erector and I spent 7 years in t' mill.

I'm addicted to Lattes these days, so what does that make me now lol

 

[trashpony]

And you can sell them for a small fortune if things get really tough.

How right you are. I'm quite tempted to give him away now - he keeps kicking me REALLY HARD