On 09/02/2020 17:33, Mike Collins wrote:

On Sunday, 9 February 2020 17:01:08 UTC, JNugent wrote:
On 09/02/2020 16:06, Mike Collins wrote:

The average UK salary is £36Kpa which means take home around £2K per month of which £500 will be spent to feed a driving habit rather than looking after family.
These people need help.

£500 a month buys a lot of car-use. It probably refers to more than one car.

Are you sure you meant "average UK salary" and not "average UK household
income"?


I don't know. Why don't you do some research and report the outcome with references.

I had already done that but didn't anticipate your rejection of the
argument, particularly because average earnings are the stuff of news
reports every year.

But let's see...

www.google.co.uk

Enter: uk average pay 2020

.... the same first return as half an hour ago...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNQ0Irm0nDkHAQvKNhU1823yc_deSg%3A 1581271251897&source=hp&ei=00hAXvCkNIKdlwTBhL64DQ& q=uk+average+pay+2020&oq=&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.35i362i39l10.0.0..4259...2.0..0.0.0.......0 ......gws-wiz.....10.qfk1QLqPO7g

Or: https://tinyurl.com/wn8n3ky

QUOTE:
Employee earnings in the UK: 2019

.... Median weekly earnings for full-time employees reached £585 in April
2019, an increase of 2.9% since April 2018 ...
ENDQUOTE

Government departments involved with employment prefer to use weekly
figures if they can.

So...

Calculator app...

585 x 52 = 30,420.

You snipped a fair bit of my previous post.

Here it is in full:

QUOTE:
£500 a month buys a lot of car-use. It probably refers to more than one car.

Are you sure you meant "average UK salary" and not "average UK household
income"?

Current government stats have average (median) full time earnings at
£585 a week (just over £30,000 gross - much less net). Household income
will be higher than that.

AIH, I don't think I've ever been in the habit of spoending £500 a month
in car expenses. Not even including HP repayments. Well, when it did
exceed that for quite a while, I was collecting something between £500
and £1,000 a month in travelling (car-use) expenses. I certainly wasn't
paying £500 a month out of my own pocket (hardly anything, if anything
at all, in fact). But of course, I am not holding out my case as
representing the "average" (however defined).
ENDQUOTE

Happy to help.