Originally posted by d000hg
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Permie pay is good but nothing like the strong rate I was on. And the tax is hugely demotivating! It's hard to see how anyone is supposed to make a good life for themselves (with a family) on salaries even as good as £100k : tax + NI deductions are almost £35k from a £100k salary
I consider myself fortunate to have had a good contracting career that allowed us to level up in life. It would have much harder, almost impossible, on PAYE. I don't have the luxury of regretting going permie, because I didn't really have any other contracting option - but I do hate it. The money is bad (relatively), the work is boring me to anxiety, the expectations are too much etc etc.
I would happily take a lower paid job if I could work in more interesting fields like AI or cloud, or product implementation.
So just throwing out my experience if it helps.
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