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What do people class as a high salary

  • 03-05-2013 11:53AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭


    Just generally curious what people consider a high salary. People bandy about the 100k mark as being high or very high.

    Now I am not talking about household income just annual salary

    What point do you see a salary as being high 708 votes

    30k+
    1% 11 votes
    35k+
    2% 16 votes
    40k+
    1% 11 votes
    45k+
    4% 30 votes
    50k+
    4% 31 votes
    55k+
    13% 98 votes
    60k+
    3% 25 votes
    65k+
    14% 106 votes
    70k+
    4% 33 votes
    75k+
    9% 64 votes
    80k+
    4% 33 votes
    85k+
    11% 81 votes
    90k+
    1% 9 votes
    95k+
    3% 23 votes
    100k+
    0% 3 votes
    105k+
    17% 121 votes
    110k+
    0% 1 vote
    115k+
    0% 3 votes
    120k+
    0% 2 votes
    125k+
    0% 7 votes


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Comments

  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    What would a German say?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    A 100k is fùckin' massive in my eyes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭kennryyr


    I would consider making 60k a year basic salary or over as being "high"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    snubbleste wrote: »
    What would a German say?

    9:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Anything higher than what you're being paid.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,380 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Dole + 50 euro


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    kennryyr wrote: »
    I would consider making 60k a year basic salary or over as being "high"

    What planet are you living on?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    A 100k is fùckin' massive in my eyes.


    Fair enough but what point is the tipping point to high.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭sundodger5


    A euro more than the wife can spend.


  • Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    petes wrote: »
    What planet are you living on?

    Average Irish annual income is just over 40k, so I'd say that someone claiming 60k is high and 90k+ as very high to be right on the money.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    snubbleste wrote: »
    What would a German say?

    As a German, most German would regard an income of around or over €3000 a month as high.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Sacramento wrote: »
    Average Irish annual income is just over 40k, so I'd say that someone claiming 60k is high and 90k+ as very high to be right on the money.


    I didn't think the average was that high. Also averages are not exactly a good gauge IMHO.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    petes wrote: »
    What planet are you living on?
    It's all relative. 60k for me alone would be massive money. Not people with kids though obviously.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    ninety nine ninety nine - this madness must end soon. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,669 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    Didn't put €25000 down, would be high for me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    I make less than 10k a year.

    30k + would be massive for me! But I suppose it all depends on what your circumstances are. Are you married? Kids? 2 cars/big car? Mortgage or Apartment?

    etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    Sacramento wrote: »
    Average Irish annual income is just over 40k, so I'd say that someone claiming 60k is high and 90k+ as very high to be right on the money.

    that sounds wrong - 40K average - I don't think so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 580 ✭✭✭Taxburden carrier


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Just generally curious what people consider a high salary. People bandy about the 100k mark as being high or very high.

    Now I am not talking about household income just annual salary

    Depends on whether you are actually earning the figure. Too many people are getting without earning...hence the sh1te the country is in.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Shenshen wrote: »
    As a German, most German would regard an income of around or over €3000 a month as high.

    That is apparently less than the median and average

    http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=81&loctype=1

    It is pretty odd that an average wage amount would be considered high


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭StewartGriffin


    Well, I earn 4000 euro a week and I have to eat a cornflake box for dinner once a week. The other days I eat cornflakes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    60,000 not high only a civil servant would claim that ,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Alpha Dog 1


    40 k is only a average for the public sector.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭BGozIE


    Sacramento wrote: »
    Average Irish annual income is just over 40k, so I'd say that someone claiming 60k is high and 90k+ as very high to be right on the money.


    Last time I checked 36k p.a was the average Irish salary. I Stand to be corrected though as that was awhile ago


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Voted 60k, that be near double what i am on. So I would class that as a massive wage, Hell I could have voted 50k.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    That is apparently less than the median and average

    http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=81&loctype=1

    It is pretty odd that an average wage amount would be considered high

    You forget that the average tax rate in Germany is just under 50%, in some cases higher.


  • Posts: 24,774 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I would have to say when I think high salary I would think of earning 100k or more. The fact you only take home around 60k when earning 100k also takes the gloss off it too. For a single person its high but if its the only income to a family its not really high any more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    I am only 25 so anything above 20,000 is more than enough for me to live on so i consider maybe 40 grand to be high. for someone with kids and a mortgage and all that icky stuff i presume they would think higher.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭BGozIE


    40 k is only a average for the public sector.

    Maybe, but not everyone in the public sector is well paid. There are a lot of people in the public sector on 25k-35k p.a (clerical people) its the top dogs that earn the money in the public sector. And in my honest opinion, nurses and teachers dont get paid nearly enough over here.

    PS I work in the private sector


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    That is apparently less than the median and average

    http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=81&loctype=1

    It is pretty odd that an average wage amount would be considered high

    I would guess he meant 3000 after tax, as 3000 before tax is about average and not a high wage in Germany.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Shenshen wrote: »
    You forget that the average tax rate in Germany is just under 50%, in some cases higher.

    As I would be asking about salary it would exclude tax and I understand it is 40% not 50% as well.


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