Melbourne with $130k per year????
#46
Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
I concur with BB. You can get a good house for less than $2,500 a month although maybe not right on the beach but not too far. As mentioned look at Cheltenham, Edithvale and surrounds on realestate.com.au and see what you can find.
#47
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Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
Finally it goes without saying haggle hard with your new work and try to get as much out of them as poss. ie super on top, not inc etc. The more the better
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Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
[QUOTE=Buzzy--Bee;9303493]Mate, in Melbourne 3.5k per month would rent you a very nice house indeed.
Last year we paid 2k per month for a brand new 3 bed 3 reception house looking over a park within walking distance of the beach and 40 mins drive from the city of Melbourne.
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Thanks, I actually meant $2.5k per month, but I assume we can still get somewhere OK.
What website can I use to calculate after tax earnings so I know how much we will have after tax when I get paid?
Last year we paid 2k per month for a brand new 3 bed 3 reception house looking over a park within walking distance of the beach and 40 mins drive from the city of Melbourne.
BB[/QUOTE
Thanks, I actually meant $2.5k per month, but I assume we can still get somewhere OK.
What website can I use to calculate after tax earnings so I know how much we will have after tax when I get paid?
#49
Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
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Mate, in Melbourne 3.5k per month would rent you a very nice house indeed.
Last year we paid 2k per month for a brand new 3 bed 3 reception house looking over a park within walking distance of the beach and 40 mins drive from the city of Melbourne.
BB[/QUOTE
Thanks, I actually meant $2.5k per month, but I assume we can still get somewhere OK.
What website can I use to calculate after tax earnings so I know how much we will have after tax when I get paid?
Last year we paid 2k per month for a brand new 3 bed 3 reception house looking over a park within walking distance of the beach and 40 mins drive from the city of Melbourne.
BB[/QUOTE
Thanks, I actually meant $2.5k per month, but I assume we can still get somewhere OK.
What website can I use to calculate after tax earnings so I know how much we will have after tax when I get paid?
#50
Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
Not that nice a place. We last rented 4 years ago and paid $3.5k pm for a very ordinary property in Beaumaris.
#51
Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
You dont need private health, you dont need foxtel you dont need a pool. However, they are nice, but sometimes you do have to take a step back to make the move. After all in the UK you have built up your things over the years and it does cost you to move etc.
I dont have 10 kids OR earn 60K, but we do ok. Would like to do better and certainly would feel very rich on your wages! Its subjective. Some people say they are struggling with 2 new cars in the drive, the kids at private school and they dont want to touch their savings. Others say they are skint when they cant save, others when they cant afford to pay the water rates...
You wont be skint on that wage, however you may not feel as wealthy as you do right now living in the UK because it will cost you to move and you wont know how/ where to shop to recoup some of the money to start with Also paying all of your start up costs (Bond, cars/ rego/ ambulance etc etc will cost a lot all at once!) Hope that makes sense?
Good luck with whatever you decide
#52
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Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
The tipping point is what ever you make it really...
You dont need private health, you dont need foxtel you dont need a pool. However, they are nice, but sometimes you do have to take a step back to make the move. After all in the UK you have built up your things over the years and it does cost you to move etc.
I dont have 10 kids OR earn 60K, but we do ok. Would like to do better and certainly would feel very rich on your wages! Its subjective. Some people say they are struggling with 2 new cars in the drive, the kids at private school and they dont want to touch their savings. Others say they are skint when they cant save, others when they cant afford to pay the water rates...
You wont be skint on that wage, however you may not feel as wealthy as you do right now living in the UK because it will cost you to move and you wont know how/ where to shop to recoup some of the money to start with Also paying all of your start up costs (Bond, cars/ rego/ ambulance etc etc will cost a lot all at once!) Hope that makes sense?
Good luck with whatever you decide
You dont need private health, you dont need foxtel you dont need a pool. However, they are nice, but sometimes you do have to take a step back to make the move. After all in the UK you have built up your things over the years and it does cost you to move etc.
I dont have 10 kids OR earn 60K, but we do ok. Would like to do better and certainly would feel very rich on your wages! Its subjective. Some people say they are struggling with 2 new cars in the drive, the kids at private school and they dont want to touch their savings. Others say they are skint when they cant save, others when they cant afford to pay the water rates...
You wont be skint on that wage, however you may not feel as wealthy as you do right now living in the UK because it will cost you to move and you wont know how/ where to shop to recoup some of the money to start with Also paying all of your start up costs (Bond, cars/ rego/ ambulance etc etc will cost a lot all at once!) Hope that makes sense?
Good luck with whatever you decide
#53
Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
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Wow, great link! What an eye opener that someone on $37K has to pay the same rate of tax as someone on $80K, especially when the HCC card cut off etc is only $42K...What you lose with that certainly cant be made up wages due to loss of tax
#54
Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
So on 37k you pay 3985 tax which is a rate of 10.8% and on 80k you pay 18750 which is 23.4%.
Last edited by Rambi; Apr 14th 2011 at 10:52 pm.
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Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
Obviously the actually tax is higher for someone on 80k. The tax band 37k-80k doesn't actually mean that a person on 37k is taxed at the same rate as a person on 80k. It's the amount over 37k that is taxed at the same rate. Also there is something called LITO which lowers the tax rate for the 37k person even more. LITO tapers out between 30k and something like 65k to avoid big jumps in tax as people earn more.
So on 37k you pay 3985 tax which is a rate of 10.8% and on 80k you pay 18750 which is 23.4%.
So on 37k you pay 3985 tax which is a rate of 10.8% and on 80k you pay 18750 which is 23.4%.
and that's before we start talking about negative gearing which a lot of people here use to lower their tax bill further still.
BB
#56
Re: Melbourne with $130k per year????
The other thing that you don't really appreciate is how much you can claim for at tax time. For instance you can offset against tax for computers and internet if you have school-age kids, any charity donations, if you work from home etc, these give us about $3000 back in July which is great as that's the month all the insurance bills hit...
and that's before we start talking about negative gearing which a lot of people here use to lower their tax bill further still.
BB
and that's before we start talking about negative gearing which a lot of people here use to lower their tax bill further still.
BB