My experience made getting job offers simple, but no one wanted to pay more. I'd often get lowballs with the offer of kudos for working at that tech firm.
£95k seems to be the upper limit at this point here for FTEs.
[0] https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php
[1] https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-paycheck-calculator#...
What do they spend it on?
A common American complaint is "subsidizing" European defense off of our tax dollars.
America is also a big spread out place so maintaining it is more expensive than small Euro countries.
On my first point, I think we get a rather strategic advantage from being the "Western" police. However I'm just explaining a common critique you'll hear.
Other states might end up having similar tax rates, i was just curious what made Californias so high. If that is mostly federal income tax then never mind!
Developers have been contracting at £600+ per day, more than £120k per year income, for 15+ years.
It has historically been very easy to achieve that if you don’t mind working for a bank.
I don’t even think I’m in a bubble with these numbers. I know and have hired hundreds of contractors over the years.
3 bed terraced houses with access to good schools, 50-60 minutes out central, sell for £1M, so if you're entering the area want a family you really want a household income of £200K+.
It's changing now as land that was allocated for housing usually gets central government overriding permission to local authorities.
The process is currently:
- Building company submit plans for housing - NIMBYS reject it because it's a flood plain. (They always magically become flood plains) - Building company submit alternative plans that are much nicer, give a lot more to the community and build public services. - NIMBYS get it rejected again - Building firm go to central government and just get approval for massive housing development which is most worse that the original plan.
Hopefully all these additional houses will reduce the pressure on the housing market but we are hundreds of thousand houses short of required stock for our current population. We have people living long term in hotels because the government can't make them homeless.
https://citymonitor.ai/government/england-short-4-million-ho...
The UK is short about 4 million houses. We have 4 million families who are homeless without anywhere to go.
If we banned second home ownership it would only knock about 10% off that number.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-...
That's a pretty crappy situation where we don't even have enough houses for people to rent.