Jeremy Hunt Reckons His Salary Is Not Enough

[-SharonA-]

Jeremy Hunt was forced to defend comments he made about his salary of £100K when saying it is not a huge salary!!!!!

Who's he kidding!!! He is trying to make out it is not enough when paying for a mortgage and child care costs! Ahhhh poor man!

https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-hunt-defends-100k-isnt-a-huge-salary-comments-13101101

[youngmafbog]

And a 100K isnt a huge salary.

[bednobs]

100k salary people have 100k salary bills to go with it usually

[Old_Geezer]

It is a huge salary to those only being paid ⅓ that as the national average. Those who think it's not must have got used to high income and lost touch with the majority view.

[ToraToraTora]

08:05, yes, pay peanuts get monkies. As TGL taught us, the state should be as small as possible. Halve the MPs double their salary, abolish the Lords, undevolve, abolish alll the councils and replace with management teams funded centrlly to empty the bins.....sorted!

[Ellipsis]

As Mr Micawber said ...

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.
 

£100K is a lot of money to a lot of people, but it's not enough for the miserable people who can't live on that pittance  ...

[barry1010]

My next door neighbour is a nurse and her husband is a decorator.  Between them they earn well over £100k a year, she earns over £70k.  

My other neighbour is a deputy head at a grammar school - just under £100k.

Very ordinary, state school educated people. 

[ToraToraTora]

My guvnor's mortgage alone is £48k a year and thats after tax.

[youngmafbog]

//It is a huge salary to those only being paid ⅓ that as the national average.//

But people paid that are not (generally) doing an average job.

Anyway seems train drivers will be on 100K soon.

My kids/husbands earn far more than 100K.  They worked hard at school, went without and are now reaping the rewards.

 

[ToraToraTora]

Stop it YMB you'll upset the lefties with all this silly talk about working hard to improve your lot!

[davebro3]

BTW - if your gross is £100k - your take home will be about £68k. Just sayin' 

[youngmafbog]

And as you go over 100K you loose your tax free allowance.

Plus of course, as is the point of what Hunt was asying, you loose your child allowanace.

[Deskdiary]

If you're earning between £100k and £125k, because of the  gradual loss of the personal allowance you're effectively being taxed at 60% between these figures. This is a bloody disgrace.

[nicebloke1]

Regardless of anyones income whatever that may be,many people have struggled especially over the past 3 years.

But many people never really sit down now and bother to work out incomings and outgoings, big mistake, because by the time you realise your in debt its to late to reverse it with any real impact, do then you really have to tighten the belt, had one kept a close eye on things it may have never got to a point of tightening the belt.

The more some people earn the more they may spend and tend to cast a blind eye, the latter is not a great idea no matter how high your earning are. Always keep some by for a rainy day they used to say because you never know when that storm will hit.

[Deskdiary]

Also, the gradual loss of your personal allowance over £100k is now 14 years old. Just on inflation alone, that £100k PA in 2010 is now worth £148k, so due to the fiscal drag the number of people who are now affected who would otherwise not be (had the £100k been increased over the last 14 years) must be many many thousands. 

 

This is a punitive stealth tax.

[nicebloke1]

Having read the link now it appears that people may struggle on 100k if they have a 600k plus home they are paying for, well I'm sorry but if i were earning 100k i wouldn't dream of buying a house in that price range, there is no wriggle room if your income drops or you find yourself having to take a lower paid job. Buy a home that you can still keep should you income drop. Rainy day sorted.

[youngmafbog]

Try finding a home in London for less than 600K for your familly.

Stating house prices is a very simplistic way of looking at things.

[nicebloke1]

Well i doubt you would find a house in London, but many manage to find homes on the outskirts of London that are cheaper. 30 miles outside of London is were may live that work in central London. Failing that then its obvious that you cant afford to work in London or live, i supose that leaves on option, that option many have taken. Its really all about not living beyond your means.

[nicebloke1]

Looking at this OP again and some of the posters answers. If Hunt thinks that 100k is not a great wage, then why are they still refusing to increase nurses and doctors wages, especially the ones working in central London hospitals and surounding areas??

[Arksided]

I feel real sorry for the poor fella living in Kensington and all that poorship he has to deal with living in such a squallow.

Imagine there's a whole country outside of F@@= London... folk oop North are not sub human creatures... like the filth in his ... I'll stop there.

He's a nob-head.

[Arksided]

*Squalor