What do you consider a good salary?

It entirely depends on your skillet and experience I am an old man been doing tech stuff at an extremely high level for decades. I have a first class degree and I have worked for, from 22k a year up to 700 per day as a contractor. I recently turned down a job at 800k dollars a year because of the us travel required.

A good salary is what you are worth. What I would say is every single person working for someone else is underpaid barring the ceo and those at the very top of the pyramid.

Infosys charge clients 1 grand a day for my time. I get a little less than half of that. Am I over paid or underpaid?

Most of us will judge based on what we can afford to buy. Size of house, make of car, holidays, phone we have. This is entirely the wrong attitude. We should all be paid our worth. If you are serving coffes and earning minimum wage for Starbucks you are being robbed. Your worth to Starbucks is about 60 or 70 grand a year. Will it cause inflation? Course it will because of corporate greed.
 
As people have said, it’s entirely circumstantial. A single childless man working from home in Pallister Park would be very comfortable on £40k. Give him a couple of kids and move him to Nunthorpe with a daily commute to work and he’d be struggling to cover all his bills.
 
Funky_Chicken said:
Don’t worry, Klaus and Co have your future sorted
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That must be the most overused out-of-context quote in modern history.

The original article was a 'future-shock' style fiction. The actual premise was for efficiencies and energy-saving through rental-as-default and maintenance/upgrades as a standard part of any contract. It took it to the extremes of renting EVERYTHING (so you never actually owned anything) but you always had the latest of anything, all in good nick.

It's more of a green agenda than a humans-as-slaves distopia.
 
I have had a couple of substantial payments for voluntary redundancy in the last 18 years so that has left me comfortable and my pension pot is ok. I do feel for people that live from month to month. My new salary keeps us ticking along and the mrs works part time too.
 
In my experience, when I’ve been lucky enough to have significant pay rises, I always seem to (after 6 months or so) to ‘live up’ to the new income and therefore conclude that it doesn’t matter beyond a certain level what your income is, you’ll always adjust to it and not see the benefit.

More income, generally speaking, equals more responsibility which can impact on your quality of life.
 
Tryasize10 said:
Turning into a "how much did your watch cost" type of post this one.
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Yes and I’ve been working for 40 years and there is more rubbish talked about salaries and wages than anything.

You notice that only those with very good incomes like to tell others what they are on and even then there is no detail on benefits etc, a day rate will often be high but will not include any pension, holidays, sickness etc.

Most people and occupations are much lower paid than you think.
 
gramercy said:
A few people have said that you’ll adjust to whatever your income is.
Although I understand that generally people do that, I don’t get the reasons behind why they do it.
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Because everyone always wants something but they have to make decisions on whether they can afford it. Once you can afford it you buy it, then you are back to square one with wanting something just out of reach. Upgrading things like houses and cars that are permanent increases in spending are the most obvious culprits.
 
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