How much do you earn?

There's also an idea that's been current in management culture for god knows how long that letting the workers discuss their salaries foments discontent. Which obviously hasn't helped remove any taboos surrounding such discussions.

As for me, I'm on 29K a year + about 3K in bonuses.

I was going to quote the last sentance from the book because it puts it quite nicely, but the last sentance is pretty much all the last page and I can't be bothered.

I'm living proof that not all lawyers are rich. Then again, I didn't make Law Review.

Salary: $35K, plus a company car (all expenses paid). (Plus an average of $90-$100 in freelance revenue - TWO articles in TWO years! Boo-fuckin-yah!)

Most people seem to be reticent to admit their salary because they don't want those numbers to be held against them. Not that they should. It's a touchy subject for some, however.

In 2001 I believe my supplimentary income from music may exceed £5000, but I haven't any of it yet and that doesn't offset five years of expenditure.

I don't mind people knowing what I earn. I think people are often surprised it's as low as that, to be honest. The senior partner, who is so damn rude to me all the time, earns approximately £750,000pa. And my previous boss and her hubby brought home £5m a year. Crazy.

I earn 22.5K P.A. though that is about to be subjected to a backdated pay increase that no-one quite understands round here. I am also trying to negotiate a form of profit related pay since i make so much damn money for them round here (and hence to act as an incentive not to be on ILE every minute of the day).

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It's not nearly enough for my lifestyle, unfortunately.

The look on Idiot's face was a picture and I was mobbed by schoolies afterward, most of whom wanted to know how to get work placements on my Edgy Consumer Magazine. I advised against, because in all truth I don't earn a lot. However as a self-employed person with a jammily cheap Zone 1 flat, I can write off significant amounts of this, inc. percentage of rent and bills, against taxes so for the moment I'm not bothered.

Yes the culture of pay silence is really damaging - my best friend at my last job worked like a skivvy without any idea for ages that she was getting five or six grand less than same-rank same-job people. It wasn't gender discrimination so much as loyalty discrimination - MR being a small and v.incestuous industry people jump jobs a lot and get tasty increases to lure them into a position they're going to be in for 12-18 months (hello me). It was well known that the only way to get a good salary increase at this place was to leave for 6 months: my friend stuck it out for 4 years and only finally got some recognition when everyone else left.

Rent's a bit of a bitch in inner Melb, this place is 1120 a month, but at least Im going halves on that now, so Im not paying half me salary in rent! :(

lots of insane people in NYC

Dan at some point I insist that you and I get hammered and talk about the good ol' days of six-figure salaries.

hello tokyo and hong kong! what most middle class westerners deem a studio suffices as a livingspace for a middle class family of four in megametropolitan asia.

bump

idk what my take home is yet (pension contribution takes a good bite) but as of today I make €42300 odd pa.

rent is about to go up to 600 each for a two bed townhouse on a quiet st in an undesirable but hopefully gentrifiable area of dublin

ok fess up bitches

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i am about to make just-making-it levels of pay for the next four or five months after a year of scrounging please-somebody-help-me levels and it's already got me imagining BUYING THINGS

Household or just mine?

as threadbumper I'm happy with either way or both if you feel it significant

our household income just broke 70k, this summer gone it was prob under 50k tho and the difference hasn't actually arrived yet (and there'll be some lag anyway while student loans and visa get what's coming to them)

Just thought I'd ask.
I got about $50k this year before taxes. With my wife's income, around $110k.

I don't earn a penny these days. I am a kept man.

livin the dream

thats some advantage, I demand it be taken into account in future poetry contests

I'm paid something around the going rate. We pay a quarter of that in rent for a 2 bedroom apartment and have hefty student loans to pay. Wife has a job right now as well, but that might need to change when babby arrives (would probably take a net loss on child care).

I get the full bennies at the moment and it is the worst fucking period of my life. I get increasingly paranoid that the banks are working out new ways to squeeze me harder now they realise I am not earning fuck all any more. Also paranoid that Universal Credit is going to push my family into further poverty. But fuck the haters; I paid into this system for 18 years and even if I hadn't done so - go fuck yourselves anyway, potential judgemental fucking arseholes!

xp grats sufjan hadn't heard news

ty! I don't think I shared that bit o' news yet.

£72.40/week

We earn a combined income that would have seemed like a lot of money to me ten years ago and now feels like enough but not a lot. We have enough to own an apartment in an uninteresting but safe neighborhood, send our daughter to the daycare we like instead of the cheapest, pay for my wife's part time school, have a couple date nights a month, do some family stuff on weekends, etc. When we need something we can buy it and when we need to fix things we can fix them. A save a little but not much. We don't do a lot of travel. Most of our meals are home cooked and we shop at Costco, but we buy organic meat and milk and eggs and other nice food. It's surprising how much it costs to live a pretty mundane middle class family life in nyc.

14,000$ CAD

i'm somehow living pretty ok off this? must be wild to make, like, n times this much money

quiddities, agonies xp

Canada Goose parkas for the whole family meant three instead of four star resort this year hey it's cold what was I supposed to do

i earn the respect of others

not really

a little more than my age x $1000 for the year

I demand it be taken into account in future poetry contests

The advantage you cite is fully offset by galloping mental decrepitude, brought on by six decades of wear and tear and victory gin.

At the current exchange rate, exactly the same as Darragh. Notional bonuses bump it up but I'd estimate that's around £15k - £20k less than market rate for the role as a basic salary. I get recruitment consultants nervously saying 'I've got a role I'd be interested in putting you forward for but the starting salary is only £60k'. I need to have a serious conversation with my boss.

rent is about to go up to 600 each for a two bed townhouse on a quiet st in an undesirable but hopefully gentrifiable area of dublin

― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 12 January 2015 23:15 (1 week ago)

why do you want the area surrounding a house you don't own to become gentrified thereby increasing its value and rental yields

because the rent is well below market rate and v likely to stay as is for the forseeable (covering mortgage costs of friends)