Students expect £100,000 salary by 40

[NickFitz]

"Young Britons expect on average to earn a salary of £101,001 a year by the time they reach age 40, according to a survey."

In yet other news: "PR firm that expects to get easily-manipulated newspaper to use their press release as if it was actual news commissions survey whose resulting figures happen to have just the right shape to be used in a headline."

[DodgyAgent]

I do nbot see what is so surprising about this. If you are working in a profession, in marketing, finance, banking or whatever and you are not earning £100k by the time you are 35 then you are useless.

[Old Greg]

I do nbot see what is so surprising about this. If you are working in a profession, in marketing, finance, banking or whatever and you are not earning £100k by the time you are 35 then you are useless.

This time next year, Rodders.

[Churchill]

Errrm, isn't the whole point of this Press release is that a bank/pension company is flagging up that only 9% of these people surveyed pay in to a pension and that this is bad news (for them)

Indeed and the "newspaper" will have sold plenty of advertising space to financial institutions based on their "scoop"!

[russell]

Is this before tax? £100k a year is less than £5.5k a month after you are bent over by HMRC.

[Mich the Tester]

Did you get married in the same year?

No, the banking crisis came along and rates fell by about 30% across the board in NL. They haven't quite reached the pre-crisis levels again yet, but one is 'doing OK'.

How's business for you then?

[Bunk]

No, the banking crisis came along and rates fell by about 30% across the board in NL. They haven't quite reached the pre-crisis levels again yet, but one is 'doing OK'.

How's business for you then?

If you could just lend him a sofa his life would be perfect

[NigelJK]

The maths ain't on their side.

But inflation is. £100K today will be around the £25K mark by then.

[MyUserName]

Not sure what the big deal is. If you are young an ambitious and think you have what it takes to succeed (which most people do at that age) then you probably will expect to earn 100k by the time you are 35. Whether they genuinely expect this or whether they are just considering the best realistic case I am not sure.

If you asked me how much I expected to be earning when I was 35 when I was 18 I probably would have said something similar, especially if I knew it was just a survey and there was no one there to give me a reality check.

[Mich the Tester]

Not sure what the big deal is. If you are young an ambitious and think you have what it takes to succeed (which most people do at that age) then you probably will expect to earn 100k by the time you are 35. Whether they genuinely expect this or whether they are just considering the best realistic case I am not sure.

If you asked me how much I expected to be earning when I was 35 when I was 18 I probably would have said something similar, especially if I knew it was just a survey and there was no one there to give me a reality check.

It's do-able if you work for yourself, you have niche skills or you reach a high position in a business; what may be unrealistic is to expect your earnings to carry on rising, as some people seem to expect. More realistic to expect ups and downs in life.