Whats considered a good salary?

Mr.Success · 10-02-2012 10:15pm #1

A 40 hour week on minimum wage is around €350. So whats considered Bad, Good and excellent

Seachmall · 10-02-2012 10:23pm

Depends on Living Expenses, Job Satisfaction, Difficulty of Job, Qualifactions etc.

Different for everyone.

But anywhere around 100k+ is generally considered decent.

Stinicker · 10-02-2012 10:24pm

Mr.Success wrote: »

A 40 hour week on minimum wage is around €350. So whats considered Bad, Good and excellent

Minimum wage is a waste of time as you are better of on the dole unless you can literally walk to work. If you have to commute any distance it is a waste of time due to the massive costs involved in getting to work and the extra taxation and loss of benefits.

I would consider any wage over €600 a week to be good and €800+ a week excellent. It is not going to work for under €400 a week.

VagnerLove · 10-02-2012 10:24pm

About three fiddy.

phasers · 10-02-2012 10:24pm

A million euro a week

10-02-2012 10:25pm

more than i get

John Doe1 · 10-02-2012 10:26pm

a farthing and a donkey

galwayrush · 10-02-2012 10:28pm

I was able to draw 950 eoro this week i wish so far this year.
It's not good.....

amacachi · 10-02-2012 10:29pm

bluewolf wrote: »

more than i get

The question was "What's considered a good salary?", not "At which pay level should people pay more tax?". :pac:

Pj! · 10-02-2012 10:29pm

It's not what you earn its how you spend it.

Oh and also this.

phasers wrote: »

A million euro a week

Katgurl · 10-02-2012 10:29pm

In today's climate I think 50k+ is pretty good

DaveDaRave · 10-02-2012 10:30pm

188 for a zero hour week

Marcusm · 10-02-2012 10:35pm

Seachmall wrote: »

Depends on Living Expenses, Job Satisfaction, Difficulty of Job, Qualifactions etc.

Different for everyone.

But anywhere around 100k+ is generally considered decent.

An average person in Ireland could aspire to little more than half of that.

Seachmall · 10-02-2012 10:36pm

Marcusm wrote: »

An average person in Ireland could aspire to little more than half of that.

Really? I would have thou... oh, no wait.

Yup.

Cianos · 10-02-2012 10:39pm

Have you ever found a euro? That's probably the best salary you'll ever earn. It takes about 5 seconds to pick up and pocket. A euro in 5 seconds. Doing it you're earning €28,800 a week. Noice. Or €1,612,800 a year. Nooooooicce. On a 40 hour week of course. Before tax.

KittyeeTrix · 10-02-2012 10:48pm

Cianos wrote: »

Have you ever found a euro? That's probably the best salary you'll ever earn. It takes about 5 seconds to pick up and pocket. A euro in 5 seconds. Doing it you're earning €28,800 a week. Noice. Or €1,612,800 a year. Nooooooicce. On a 40 hour week of course. Before tax.

Aye, but your back would be f***ed from all the bending down to pick it up!!!:p

whatsamsn · 10-02-2012 10:50pm

Bad: Even 350 a week is nothing with the cost of living these days.
Good: I guess double the average wage. So 700 upwards.
Excellent: 1,000 upwards.

Where To · 10-02-2012 10:59pm

I'd be happy to work for nothing sex

Rabies · 10-02-2012 11:58pm

VagnerLove wrote: »

About three fiddy.

I will give you a pity thanks for that over used unfunny line.

Anyway, enough money is when you can live a comfortable life with out being to extravagant and still save for bad few months.

gigino · 11-02-2012 1:38am

Katgurl wrote: »

In today's climate I think 50k+ is pretty good

50k is pretty good all right. Its about 17k more than the average private sector salary, and 2k more than the average public sector salary, which is 48k. www.cso.ie

marketty · 11-02-2012 1:43am

The best way to look at this is take home pay after tax per week, saying 100k a year means feck all really, with all the levies and increased taxes etc how much more per week does a 100k a year earner get over someone earning 50k?

Stinicker · 11-02-2012 1:44am

gigino wrote: »

50k is pretty good all right. Its about 17k more than the average private sector salary, and 2k more than the average public sector salary, which is 48k. www.cso.ie

It is disgraceful that the public salary is so high, the public sector should be at least 10 to 20% behind the private sector for job security alone.

CrazyRabbit · 11-02-2012 3:44am

About €20,000 above whatever you currently earn.

carbon nanotube · 11-02-2012 3:57am

Mr.Success wrote: »

A 40 hour week on minimum wage is around €350. So whats considered Bad, Good and excellent

25 million for a few years doing nothing and walk out over racist remarks in the end.

Degag · 11-02-2012 4:01am

marketty wrote: »

The best way to look at this is take home pay after tax per week, saying 100k a year means feck all really, with all the levies and increased taxes etc how much more per week does a 100k a year earner get over someone earning 50k?

Ummm, still considerably more really.

brummytom · 11-02-2012 4:06am

I do 8 hours a week and get £106.65 (€127.46). That's not bad, is it?

Atlantis50 · 11-02-2012 4:45am

Domo230 wrote: »

Just got the interview for a minimum wage job as a street fundraiser.

I thought Dole was around €200 so I would be getting an extra €100 a week.
The real draw for me though is I wanted to improve my social skills and this jobs seems like a great opportunity to do so.

Well you'll become immune to rejection if thats your social hangup!

policarp · 11-02-2012 4:49am

Where To wrote: »

I'd be happy to work for nothing sex

Were you on RTE last week?

policarp · 11-02-2012 4:52am

brummytom wrote: »

I do 8 hours a week and get £106.65 (€127.46). That's not bad, is it?

Why don't you work a bit of overtime?

puzzle factory · 11-02-2012 5:24am

prison officer,1749euro after tax,per week.

Adyx · 11-02-2012 5:24am

Stinicker wrote: »

Minimum wage is a waste of time as you are better of on the dole unless you can literally walk to work. If you have to commute any distance it is a waste of time due to the massive costs involved in getting to work and the extra taxation and loss of benefits.

I would consider any wage over €600 a week to be good and €800+ a week excellent. It is not going to work for under €400 a week.

What would you consider too great a distance to walk though? I walk to work, takes about 25/30 minutes each way. Also how are you better off on the dole rather than working for €400 a week? I'd love to be getting that right now. No way I'd get anything like that on the dole though.

puzzle factory · 11-02-2012 5:32am

outa curisoty,is enda kenny on the same wage as bosco,considering there both puppets.

policarp · 11-02-2012 5:41am

puzzle factory wrote: »

prison officer,1749euro after tax,per week.

policarp · 11-02-2012 5:43am

puzzle factory wrote: »

prison officer,1749euro after tax,per week.

policarp · 11-02-2012 5:46am

Had to look twice at this. . .

pappyodaniel · 11-02-2012 6:01am

Reportedly, David Beckham is earning about €30,000,000 per year, that's nearly €600k a week.

Maybe if I practice and get really good at football I could m.....

Amirani · 11-02-2012 6:37am

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Reportedly, David Beckham is earning about €30,000,000 per year, that's nearly €600k a week.

Maybe if I practice and get really good at football I could m.....

Not a hope he's on anything near that anymore.

Rabies · 11-02-2012 7:08am

brummytom wrote: »

I do 8 hours a week and get £106.65 (€127.46). That's not bad, is it?

Medical research guinea pig?

Helix · 11-02-2012 7:17am

anything over €75k would be reasonable

€100k plus would be "good" i suppose

Helix · 11-02-2012 7:19am

NiallSparky wrote: »

Not a hope he's on anything near that anymore.

beckham makes a lot more than his $250,000 a week wages for playing footie. the guy would have megabucks income from advertising gigs, then there's companies sponsoring him, and he's got his own fashion line

replace the € with $ and it's probably about right

bbam · 11-02-2012 7:22am

puzzle factory wrote: »

prison officer,1749euro after tax,per week.

They're welcome to it...
It's one of those jobs I just can't imagine doing so am quite glad someone else is willing to...

Politicians earn crazy sums of money and have to deal with no one only each other.....
Now they are a waste of money

Flyer1 · 11-02-2012 8:12am

350 a week for a 40 hour week. Ouch.

I'm working out in a coal mine in oz at the moment and the money is what a lot here would call "good or decent "

Absolute bucket loads of work out here.

twowheelsonly · 11-02-2012 8:18am

puzzle factory wrote: »

prison officer,1749euro after tax,per week.

Jaysus!!! Is that in Ireland?? :eek:

I'll be making Phone Calls on Monday morning so... I'll be wanting to know how come so many of the newer Officers are entitled to Family Income Supplement.

Have this weeks docket in my hand BTW.. With 8 hours 'overtime' and 36 hours of Nights it's still less than that - for a FORTNIGHT!!! And I'm in a promoted grade with a good few years behind me.

You might want to check your 'source' there before you try stirring the pot..

Jesus Wept · 11-02-2012 8:22am

brummytom wrote: »

I do 8 hours a week and get £106.65 (€127.46). That's not bad, is it?

Rent boy?

mattjack · 11-02-2012 8:49am

The-Rigger wrote: »

Rent boy?

high class rent boy ?

almighty1 · 11-02-2012 9:00am

Stinicker wrote: »

It is disgraceful that the public salary is so high, the public sector should be at least 10 to 20% behind the private sector for job security alone.

The public sector is higher qualified so your figures fail.

hefferboi · 11-02-2012 9:03am

I wouldn't get up for under 80 grand a week.

bbam · 11-02-2012 9:04am

In fairness you can't blame the public actor workers.
Their unions bargained a golden deal with the government off the day which resulted in the benchmarking process.

The flaw was on the side who represented the public interest, our government.

A union's main purpose is to strike the best deal possible for their members. Job well done.

CashMoney · 11-02-2012 9:05am

almighty1 wrote: »

The public sector is higher qualified so your figures fail.

Higher qualified does not equal more productive.

mickrock · 11-02-2012 9:28am

DaveDaRave wrote: »

188 for a zero hour week

What's that per hour?

€188 divided by zero= €Infinity!

Rasmus · 11-02-2012 9:37am

You have a good salary is if you have money left over each month after paying mortgage, bills, expenses and loans.

Whats considered a good salary?

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