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It's not sadistically low in comparison to the rest of the UK, £40,000 will put you in the top 10% of earners in the country. Obviously it's not amazing pay, s
by djhworld 13y ago
It's not sadistically low in comparison to the rest of the UK, £40,000 will put you in the top 10% of earners in the country.
Obviously it's not amazing pay, seeing as the average wage here is around £26k, it's not awfully bad.
- _random_ 13y agoTry browsing rightmove and zoopla. Might get a fresh perspective on living in London.
- UVB-76 13y agoAs a graduate, you can live in central London pretty comfortably on rent of about £8k/year. £35k is about £25k after tax, so you'd be spending about a third of your post-tax income on accommodation. Completely reasonable.
- ratherbefuddled 13y agoEven if that were true - and it's not - this isn't a graduate role is it? For a senior dev role in London you're going to need to start at £50k and be prepared to end up nearer £80k if you actually want someone to do more than grind out some simple business logic.
- walshemj 13y agoYou would be sharing a house in a less than salubrious area for that. when I worked in Holbourn last year of the 3 young members of the team living in central London 2 of them lived in family owned property on the other had well off family (a first from oxbridge)
- walshemj 13y agoBut technical and engineering roles salarys have historically been very poor compared to the USA.