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Ha I should have mentioned I still live at home! Luckily I never had to pay rent to my mum when I lived at home during my last 2 years of uni. It's only fair now that I start to give her something, especially as I will be earning alot more than what she does!
Also this is why I won't be moving out for a looonnng time
Actually I can't stand programming, I'm an IT infrastructure consultant and I'm the lowest paid person in my team, but also the youngest....hoping to move out to dubai soon where it's tax free so would be closer to £3500 per month take home pay :yes: but it is damned expensive out there, especially if you like your drink.
Take home pay - £1300
Rent = £200
Credit card = £50
Overdraft = £100
Bus pass = £50
Disposable income = £900
and the rest is left over. Joy. I cannot remember ever having this much money before
Take home: £947
Rent: £305 (inc. bills)
Phone: £52
Train ticket: £70
Web hosting: £15
LOVEFiLM: £14 (Should probably cancel this, had the same disks for > a month)
That leaves me with £491. What the FUCK do I do with that? I'm always skint by the end of the month. I suppose it's about £30 a week on lunch at work... food for home about £30 a month. The rest on going out, gig tickets etc.
Ah well, £300 extra a month to piss up the wall from next month.
Don't believe the hype! I'm a PHP dev, not that much money in it.
I started straight from school, on a pathetic £14k (although not that bad considering all I have is GCSEs), and now I'm moving to another job on £19k after just over a year.
Comp sci. grads outside of London will probably start on about £17k.
I'm on a placement at a computer company at the moment which pays 14k. Graduate roles here start at about 20k which isn't too bad at all.
I started on 25k outside London, that's gone up to 27k for the grads coming in this year. Which is slightly above the market average but 25k was below apparently and it was raised to increase applications.
After savings, loans, credit cards, food, bills and everything else we have about £2k disposable income.
Richy Rich
My bf is on a fairly good wage, but cos im not working and we have 3 children, it soon gets eaten up, mainly on groceries
And thats with two expensive babies! Want a third? (me :angel: I'm mostly potty trained and I clean sometimes too!)
I found a dime on the ground at the store today so this month I've doubled my spending cash... dont' be jelous Am!
£375 on rent
£40 transport
£52 council tax
£20 phone bill
HSA bills (£8.50 + 7.99)
£70 food
£40 bills
Around £50 a week... Though some months I lived on £500 and was late with rent.
Sometimes I couldn't afford regular proper meals :no:
Now I just got unemloyed, so will have no disposable income
1240 wages
500 rent
30 phone
60 gas
45 gym
34 car insurance
85 prescriptions
150 auto savings
336 for food and the rest... I should be able to do it though I've never seen a dime at months end. I must be missing some bills in there. It is funny... I never buy anything for myself... do I really spend that much on food? :shocking: No wonder I'm a bit chubby
I should really temporarily suspend my retirement savings until we are back up to 40 hours a week.
Life isn't cheap here but it's a lot cheaper than England.