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Funnily enough, I've just had a danish gov. statistics form thingy to fill in about one of my children, and one of the questions was, in Danish, how much did you earn last month, and I answered: I don't know. And you know what, I really really don't care, as long as it is more than you.
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30k - 60k for me.
I get a "guaranteed" £32,000 from trucking (i.e. If I did nowt but truck thats what I would get). Contracting takes it higher.
When I've completed a year of contracting I will tell you guys!
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Looks like there are two main categories as expected:
Permies < 90K
Contractors >90K
Oh and the third category:
Threaded > 500K
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Apologies, should have been more specific.
Was alluding to, for want of a better term, take home pay.
i.e. At the end of a year, the amount of money you either did or could have taken.
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But a highly paid layaboutOriginally posted by chicane View PostI'm glad you're fully aware that you're a layabout.
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I earn very little. It’s not really worth it to run this business. I’d be far better off claiming benefits, but I don’t want to be a scrounger. It’s better that I work for very little money than to not work at all.
That is my story and I’m sticking to it.
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Ah in that case I lied
I take home the bare minimum atm as i've ploughed a fair bit into plan B.
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I think it must mean gross salary. Company turnover would include all sorts of extras like business expenses, support staff etc. And it definitely can't include personal dividends, because that's unearned income.Originally posted by MrRobin View PostCompany turnover? Gross salary? Net take home pay?
I think the daily rate poll was probably a better indication of distribution of earnings on this board...?
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