Unlocking Success: How AI Legalese Decoder Can Help Navigate a High-Paying New Job
- June 2, 2024
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**Moving Up North for a Higher Paying Job**
Hi All,
I wanted to share some exciting news – I have just accepted a fantastic new job that will have me relocating up north for a significant pay increase. At 24 years old, I am currently earning around £30,000 gross, but with this new opportunity, I will be making approximately £75,000. This boost in income is truly a game changer for me.
While I am extremely grateful for this opportunity and the salary that comes with it, I also understand the importance of managing my money wisely. Coming from a background where my parents have never earned more than £35,000, I am accustomed to a humble and frugal lifestyle. Adjusting to this new level of income brings with it some considerations. I am determined to stick to my budget, enjoy life, and prioritize saving for my future. I want to avoid lifestyle creep and ensure that I am making smart financial decisions, especially now that I am in the 40% tax bracket.
I currently use the UKPF flow chart to guide my financial decisions and have built up an emergency fund that covers six months of expenses. Additionally, I have an ISA account with Trading 212, holding £1,500 in the S&P 500 with some additional investments in other stocks.
As I navigate this new chapter in my life, any advice or insights from those who have been in similar situations would be greatly appreciated. I am open to learning and making the most of this opportunity.
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Ring fence a bit of money 1-2% to enrich your experiences and skills.
Life is for living and not just saving/investing.
Up your pension contribution and standing order your budget savings amount shortly after pay day “pay yourself first”
You may find some pressure to keep up with the joneses with more expensive car, clothing etc. try to avoid this trap though being accepted in your peer group is important.
Try to avoid griping about tax to basic rate earners. Or referring to “I work hard for my money” which unintentionally or not implies lower paid people might not.
Pretend you don’t have it, anything extra that comes in goes straight into savings/investing.
Repeat for a decade and have a good shot at a very early retirement.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’d rather drive a £10k car and retire at 50 than lease the latest hotness and retire at 68. Same story with anything, I don’t need a new build, I don’t need the new iPhone, I DO need to quit this bottom boy bitch of a job.
One of the simplest AND tax efficient ways is to do salary sacrifice into your pension.
Obviously at £75k you will be paying higher rate income tax (40% instead of 20%).The pension contribution comes out before any tax is charged however, so if you contributed £25k your ‘take home’ pay would be £50k and you wouldn’t be charged the higher rate of income tax. You’ve instantly made £10k just from not paying tax.
The second benefit is you won’t have the cash in your bank account to spend. You can reduce your pension contributions before your next paycheck if you suddenly need to.
Of course you won’t be able to access the money until you hit 55. So worth planning how much savings you need access to.
Along with what other people have suggested can I make the following recommendation. Live exactly like you have been for two months and record how much you have left in your account after everything (including any direct debit savings you have organised).
Set up a separate bank account and put a fraction of what’s left in there, this is your splurg/treat account or the account you use to save if you want a new TV or sound system.
The rest of you are following the chart and other advice here should be safely saved one way or the other. Use and max ISAs, save for a house but also save for a holiday (do this in a separate account). I find if I save for something I value it with greater consideration and by moving money into bank accounts you mentally can’t touch (e.g. housing) the it’s safer.
I’d go hard on buying property over pension. Set up a LISA and contribute the maximum.
When on the ladder I’d then switch to investments/pension.
I’ve just turned 31 and the amount of people I know who have either died or have a serious illness before 60 has me reconsidering focusing too much on my pension.
Put 25k in to your pension and live like you got a 20k pay rise and not a 45k pay rise.
Hammer your pension, stops temptation to waste your cash and it’s also very efficient. Anything >50k you’re getting hit with 40%+2% tax, but if you send it to the pension ……. no tax. In other words: £5.8k in your pocket, vs £10k in your pension, plus workplace contributions. You’ll thank yourself later! (it might grow 15x over 40 years). It also avoids a major source of stress, knowing the longterm is sorted.
The common spending traps are cars, expensive holidays etc. Avoid those and find cheaper outlets 🙂
Grats. I grew up poor and it’s easy to think higher salaries as having “made it”, hell I thought 100k meant you were filthy rich – but all it really means is some comfort without struggle/worries about day to day bills. It isn’t luxury – it’s still driving a 10 year old car, and using a 4 year old phone.
Give yourself a small pay rise. Have the rest automatically moved to savings each month.
I earn a similar amount (£70-80k) depending on what bonuses and overtime I do etc and I think a lot of the advice you have been given is pretty useful so I won’t repeat any of it in detail. Here is what I do (which is by no means perfect and I’m sure could be improved).
1. Salary sacrifice £1.8k annually into the company share scheme (SIP). These are great, if your employer has one available, jump on it. It’s very hard to actually loose money and any gains are tax free (subject to a 5yr maturation period).
2. Salary sacrifice 20% of my salary into my DC pension
3. £500/month into an S&S ISA. 50% is for my kids when they’re old enough to need house deposits, 50% for myself.
4. Salary sacrifice my annual bonus into the pension (this is really mentally depressing though)
5. Overpay my mortgage (will be mortgage free by 39). This one is not ideal, and you can typically get better returns by investing that money and getting compound interest rather than over paying the mortgage. But I like the idea of owning my home and not stressing about paying a mortgage if I hit financial hardship.
Overall though, one thing I’d say is this. Enjoy your new found income. Buy that new car, that new gaming PC or travel the world. What ever your chosen hobby or vice is. Far too many people will advise that you save all of your spare change today so you can live tomorrow (retirement) but you may never actually get there, tomorrow is not guaranteed. Do enough to give yourself a comfortable retirement and enjoy the rest right now, in the present moment.
For reference me and my wife (who earns £30k part time) give ourselves £300 per month “pocket money” each. The rest goes on paying bills, savings, holidays, stuff for kids, house renovations etc. But the £300 is mine to spend on what ever I want such as my gaming PC, my bodybuilding hobby and other things. The rule is that it has to be for pure personal pleasure, otherwise the joint account picks up the tab.
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Good for you dude. That’s a really nice pay increase. Bump up those pension contributions to get yourself down to 50k. Enjoy those savings later.
50k will go a long way in up North so enjoy yourself now as well. Consider buying a place too.
First give yourself a pat on the back. Who you are now made that leap. So don’t change that about yourself.
Next, live life but only with what you budget to live life with. Don’t chase social media or friend’s lifestyles. Lifestyle creep catches millions and leaves them richer in depreciating assets and cash poorer.
While getting out the 40% tax band, with pension contributions is the most financially savvy thing to do. It also depends on your goals. At the very least sacrifice as a minimum up to what your employer matches. So if they pay 3% while you pay 5, but they’ll add 1% for every percentage point you pay up to say an extra 5%. You pay 10% and they pay 8%. Ideally pay more initially, you can always reduce it later. It will however keep the money out of temptations way.
Don’t start looking at any salary sacrifice plans on EV cars. While tempting, it’s money you do not have to spend. You don’t have a £50k car a week ago, you don’t need one tomorrow.
On pay day get money transferring into a S&S ISA. The pension is more tax efficient but ISA is much more flexible.
If a house purchase is in your future, consider a LISA. I’d hold off till after the general election to see what they might add to stimulate home ownership. (Always a risk LISA is closed to new joiners.). You can always drop money saved into it before the end of the year.
You don’t need a Google 27 Max Pro Flip phone. Initially avoid the splurge.
Get the habits right at the beginning and evolve. Rather than start to swim out your depth and get lost in the current.
You have to change your decision making process. You may well have previously been making a lot of spending decisions based on whether you can afford something or not. As you get more financially comfortable, this shifts, and the question you need to ask yourself instead is whether you want to spend a certain amount of money on something or not. You’ll probably be able to afford it. You can only spend money once, so ensure you’re proactively choosing where to spend it (or save!).
Standing order 50% of the increase into a savings account or other easy access investment. If you find you do all everything you want without that money for a year then consider better investments without instant access
Just remember: “spending” doesn’t always equal “blowing”
Hi /u/YoinkySchploinky, based on your post the following pages from our wiki may be relevant:
* https://ukpersonal.finance/budgeting/
* https://ukpersonal.finance/emergency-fund/
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Salary sacrifice down below £50k would be a good option, this way you can treat your payrise as more nominal, save loads of tax and invest towards your retirement.
I would suggest celebrating with your first paycheck, this has 2 outcomes. Should you overdo it a bit, you’ll only do it once and secondly it allows you to get it out of your system, relax and enjoy it. Be proud of yourself but remember life is long, money comes and goes, plan for a good long future but don’t forget to enjoy the present
Before you want to buy something expensive just think to make sure you’re spreading it out. You don’t want new pc’s, bikes, chairs, laptops, cars, to all feel old at the same time in 3 years.
You can afford expensive hobbies now too. If you do that then keep an eye on selling the nice stuff onwards when you’re done, while it’s still nice.
Get decent employment insurance – not a way to not blow it exactly, but a way to protect yourself.
Up your pension allowance (contributions are tax free and so your income avoids the 40% tax) and sort your salary into 1) bills 2) living 3) savings as soon as it comes in. Do you own property? If not now sounds like a good time to start making that happen.
Have fun and enjoy the little luxuries you can now afford but don’t get sucked in to the “keeping up with the Jones’s” trap. As others have said, up your savings massively but you’re in your 20s which are some of the most fun times you’ll ever have so don’t be a recluse just to save. Enjoy your hard earned money while you’re young.
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My regrets:
I didn’t pay into my pension early enough
I didn’t enjoy life enough
So on that basis. I’d say pay enough in salary sacrifice to get company contributions and then top up the rest yourself. If you can chuck 15-20% into pension (total, including employee matching etc), you’ll probably still walk away with 3600-3800 after tax each month and your pot will grow rapidly.
Then I’d suggest holidays. Go places, meet people, try skiing or snowboarding while you’re young and your knees can take it! Eat good food in nice places (occasionally).
Lifestyle creep is real and usually stems from convenience because you can. Cooking was the big one for me – I’ve reached a point I can cook better than a few local restaurants so I try not to eat out of convenience and go for places that can make things/do things I can’t.
I think what I’m trying to say is that you’ll never know what you enjoy in life if you don’t try things!
Oh and save for things.. Chances are you’ll be able to buy a lot of what you want but you’ll find that a lot of stuff you want ends up barely used. Make yourself save a little towards things – waiting gives you time to evaluate if it’s just something you want on a whim or something that’s going to make your life better.
I think I’m rambling now.
Set up a standing order and move some of your extra salary straight into savings as soon as you get paid. Make the savings account an ISA as you will soon reach the level where you pay higher rate tax on the interest.
Then think where you really want to put the money. Buy a house? increase pension savings? Have children?
Don’t save it all – you do want to enjoy your life a bit. Have some holidays and drive a car which isn’t actually falling apart – though you don’t need to buy a new BMW or Jag.
Max out your pensions payments for a start. That way you won’t miss it and be setting yourself up for a decent pension. Always ask yourself this question when buying luxuries “I know I want it but do I need it?” Save for items you want don’t use credit, it’s like an addiction and I know from experience it can easily run out of control.