What salary is good salary?
Nov 10th 2005, 11:38 am
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Re: What salary is good salary?
I wouldn't even set the alarm clock for anything less than $80K ...
Nov 10th 2005, 11:46 am
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Re: What salary is good salary?
Originally Posted by Three Legs
I wouldn't even set the alarm clock for anything less than $80K ...
I think really at the end of the day, it depends where you live in Oz and what you do for a living.
Out of interest, what would you do for 80k?
Nov 10th 2005, 11:53 am
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Anything ... absolutely anything ...
Originally Posted by claire edwards
I think really at the end of the day, it depends where you live in Oz and what you do for a living.
Out of interest, what would you do for 80k?
Out of interest, what would you do for 80k?
Nov 10th 2005, 12:32 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
Originally Posted by claire edwards
Out of interest, what would you do for 80k?
Nov 10th 2005, 6:34 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
Originally Posted by pompeywill
Average family income in the west is $50,000
Nov 10th 2005, 7:12 pm
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Hang on a minute, I thought cost of living was supposed to be lower in Oz. You are saying you wouldn't get out of bed for less than $80k which is aboot £33,000. Someone else on here is saying that it should be at least $90k which is £37,000.
I earnt £25,000 in england and that was more than enough. Surely an average person doesn't need to earn these amounts to sustain a life? Cost of living lower you say?
I earnt £25,000 in england and that was more than enough. Surely an average person doesn't need to earn these amounts to sustain a life? Cost of living lower you say?
Nov 10th 2005, 7:17 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
Originally Posted by joeboy_UK
Hang on a minute, I thought cost of living was supposed to be lower in Oz. You are saying you wouldn't get out of bed for less than $80k which is aboot £33,000. Someone else on here is saying that it should be at least $90k which is £37,000.
I earnt £25,000 in england and that was more than enough. Surely an average person doesn't need to earn these amounts to sustain a life? Cost of living lower you say?
I earnt £25,000 in england and that was more than enough. Surely an average person doesn't need to earn these amounts to sustain a life? Cost of living lower you say?
Nov 10th 2005, 7:32 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
Originally Posted by joeboy_UK
Hang on a minute, I thought cost of living was supposed to be lower in Oz. You are saying you wouldn't get out of bed for less than $80k which is aboot £33,000. Someone else on here is saying that it should be at least $90k which is £37,000.
I earnt £25,000 in england and that was more than enough. Surely an average person doesn't need to earn these amounts to sustain a life? Cost of living lower you say?
I earnt £25,000 in england and that was more than enough. Surely an average person doesn't need to earn these amounts to sustain a life? Cost of living lower you say?
Cost of living lower in Australia? No - a famous myth.
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Nov 10th 2005, 8:00 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
Originally Posted by samnrob2
oh go on then...I'll say it...
Cost of living lower in Australia? No - a famous myth.
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Cost of living lower in Australia? No - a famous myth.
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Life is as expensive as you make it...
Nov 10th 2005, 8:27 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
I'm hoping that i can live on minimum $70k as a chartered QS in Brisbane
Nov 10th 2005, 8:31 pm
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well you'd bloody well hope so, else i'd be staying in blighty if i were you. You can live really well here in canada on $50,000 canadian thats £25,000
Nov 10th 2005, 8:36 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
Originally Posted by joeboy_UK
well you'd bloody well hope so, else i'd be staying in blighty if i were you. You can live really well here in canada on $50,000 canadian thats £25,000
I used to have to gross $1800 a week to take home $1000 (1994) in newfoundland where the provincial portion of income tax was 69% of the federal amount, maybe it would be lower in ontario.
Nov 10th 2005, 8:38 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
What's a decent salary for an IT Senior Deveper in Melbourne?
Nov 10th 2005, 8:47 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
Originally Posted by eddie007
Okay, as a nurse who supports family of 6 here in UK on 20k .... is it possible to live as cheaply as we do here? We do loads of 'free' stuff , that's easy with smallish kids.. we read a lot (I take it there are libraries) we walk, we play cricket/footie (not organised, just casual in the park).. we run a clapped out old bedford midi... we do everything ourselves around the house... We shop value brands for virtually everything (apart from shoes for the kids) and we camp for holidays... As for clothes, do they have charity shops in Oz? we eat takeaway maybe once a month...
Life is as expensive as you make it...
Life is as expensive as you make it...
There are perfectly good op shops in Australia. Personally, I think a good salary is AUS70k and above. An adequate salary would be about AUS50k. You can get by on less if you live like the poster above. Ideally 2 incomes are necessary to fuel modern expectations of 'lifestyle'.
To answer the question from the software developer, and to give people an idea of what 3Legs's 80k is all about, a senior developer would get at least AUS80k in Melbourne, probably more.
One last thing. Forget about all this conversion business. It does not mean a thing.
Nov 10th 2005, 8:54 pm
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Re: What salary is good salary?
Originally Posted by thatsnotquiteright
There is nothing to stop you doing the same on the Aussie salary. There will be costs that you won't incur in the UK, medical perhaps, but other things will be cheaper - providing you are sensible and live like you say you do the living is probably comparable.
There are perfectly good op shops in Australia. Personally, I think a good salary is AUS70k and above. An adequate salary would be about AUS50k. You can get by on less if you live like the poster above. Ideally 2 incomes are necessary to fuel modern expectations of 'lifestyle'.
To answer the question from the software developer, and to give people an idea of what 3Legs's 80k is all about, a senior developer would get at least AUS80k in Melbourne, probably more.
One last thing. Forget about all this conversion business. It does not mean a thing.
There are perfectly good op shops in Australia. Personally, I think a good salary is AUS70k and above. An adequate salary would be about AUS50k. You can get by on less if you live like the poster above. Ideally 2 incomes are necessary to fuel modern expectations of 'lifestyle'.
To answer the question from the software developer, and to give people an idea of what 3Legs's 80k is all about, a senior developer would get at least AUS80k in Melbourne, probably more.
One last thing. Forget about all this conversion business. It does not mean a thing.
For me it's not a case of converting back to my salary here but more a case of what my market value is in Australia and making sure the company isn't shafting me. But having said that because I'm transferring inter-company and into the same job code they do look at my current salary in the UK.