View Poll Results: Your combined gross household income
Less than $50,000
9
7.89%
$50,000 to $100,000
39
34.21%
$100,000 to $150,000
32
28.07%
$150,000 to $200,000
19
16.67%
$200,000 to $250,000
9
7.89%
$250,000 to $500,000
2
1.75%
$500,000 to $750,000
2
1.75%
$750,000 +
2
1.75%
Voters: 114. You may not vote on this poll
Your combined household gross income
May 18th 2008, 12:26 am
#1
BE Enthusiast
Thread Starter
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 532
Your combined household gross income
So lets see the facts - are the members of BE part of the nouveau riche or not?
May 18th 2008, 12:56 am
#3
Fighting my corner
Joined: Aug 2005
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Posts: 11,948
Re: Your combined household gross income
Estimating our living conditions Down Under as one income under $100k and a mortgage around $95k, I reckon it's fair to say that we'll be the nouveau enchanté.
May 18th 2008, 4:58 am
#4
Da bing bing!
Joined: Nov 2007
Location: Kreissknows!!!
Posts: 2,202
Re: Your combined household gross income
May 18th 2008, 11:55 am
#5
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Canberra
Posts: 8,379
Re: Your combined household gross income
Had we both been working in our previous jobs we would have been but now as poor little self funded retirees (ahhhh) we are amongst the nouveaux poor these days!
May 18th 2008, 11:58 am
#6
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: From SE Wales to SE Queensland.
Posts: 1,478
May 18th 2008, 12:20 pm
#7
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 15,526
Re: Your combined household gross income
Gross income only
LOL lots have voted hardly any have posted responses.
May 18th 2008, 12:40 pm
#8
Account Closed
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 2,195
Re: Your combined household gross income
I wanna meet the bloke on over 750k and become his best mate (if it's a lady we'll discuss tennis lessons
)
)
May 18th 2008, 3:26 pm
#10
BE Enthusiast
Thread Starter
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 532
Re: Your combined household gross income
Well so far this tells us the following:
1. Roughly one-third of people (in the $150k + bracket) will be worse off under the current budget and according to the governments spin do not fall into their definition of a "working family" (So get off your bums you lazy so-and-so's
)
2. Given average house prices in the major Oz cities and assuming a 10% deposit, a lot of people will struggle to get a mortgage let alone meet the repayments.
3. One person has no money worries
.
1. Roughly one-third of people (in the $150k + bracket) will be worse off under the current budget and according to the governments spin do not fall into their definition of a "working family" (So get off your bums you lazy so-and-so's
)2. Given average house prices in the major Oz cities and assuming a 10% deposit, a lot of people will struggle to get a mortgage let alone meet the repayments.
3. One person has no money worries
.
May 18th 2008, 3:51 pm
#11
Proudly Deplorable
Joined: May 2003
Location: Alloha snack bar
Posts: 24,246
May 19th 2008, 10:34 am
#13
Auntie Fa
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: Seattle
Posts: 7,344
Re: Your combined household gross income
I tried to comment in a similar fashion yesterday but it failed, and then I got locked out of the site for the rest of the day with an error message even The Geek didn't understand. 
It's not a very British thing to discuss what one earns.
The poll is also slightly flawed in that, if you earn exactly $200k, for instance, which band do you vote for? (Purely hypothetical; I earn a big fat zero.)
It's not a very British thing to discuss what one earns.
The poll is also slightly flawed in that, if you earn exactly $200k, for instance, which band do you vote for? (Purely hypothetical; I earn a big fat zero.)
