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✎ EN Salary Sussex 45k pounds a yr

Discussion in 'United Kingdom' started by omertrik, Jul 26, 2011.

  1. omertrik

    omertrik New Member

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    Hello All,
    I am considering moving to sussex area. I have a job offer for 45 k British pound a year. Is it enough to rent a 2 bedroom flat, buy a car and maintain a normal living (occasionally going eat out, some vacation)
    Can anyone give me some info on cost of leaving in this area?

    Thanks for any posts here.
     
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    As I often say, the average income for a houshold in England is £26k. Therefore you should not have any problem. Especially as you are talking about Sussex and not London.
     
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    It's interesting article. It is related to the debate about cutting child benefits for what the Tories call "top-earners" (without thinking that they wouldn't cut for a household earning 2x£44k but will cut if they earn 1x£45! :crazy: ) and taking example of friends of them making £150k/year (they obviously live on another planet).
    The author makes a very good summary of the issue here:
    However you will notice that the article concentrates on London, which is not Sussex. Moreover it says:
    That is a shame that they did not provide the median as you would have seen immediately that it is much lower (a teacher earns £25k, a lot of wages such as Tesco etc make £15k), despite what the journalist says.

    PS: I had a look at the 2009 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings as pointed out in the article. Indeed the median (not average as I wrote above) is £25,800 in 2009 (with the crisis, things have not changed much). You also see that the median for London is £627x52=£32624 (nearly half the average of £60,959 quoted in the article ! :think: )
    In Sussex - South East, the median (and close to the average as all the high salaries are located in London due to the banker bonuses) is £26707.
     
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