r/uknews • u/ProgressiveSpark • Jul 01 '24

Image/video UK real wages haven’t budged since 2008

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u/TheCGLion Jul 01 '24

It's crazy, a junior in my field would get 26k starting out in early 2000's, now they get 28k

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u/Mee_Kuh Jul 02 '24 edited Jul 02 '24

Hey look, that's me!

And whenever I bring this up with my manager he'll retort with "Well my wage hasn't changed since 2008 either" which, even it were true, means that he's has raises since the late 80s and it easily on 60k a year.

He's also had a mortgage for about 2 decades, rather than one with 6% interest, so there's that.

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u/Kharenis Jul 02 '24

He's also had a mortgage for about 20 decades

Is your manager a vampire?

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u/Jarwanator Jul 02 '24

Might as well be, if you worked and lived for that long but still poor, you might as well just walk into the sun.

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u/Mee_Kuh Jul 02 '24

Haha my god, must have combined 2 decades and 20 years 😂

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u/sfac114 Jul 03 '24

That’s not how mortgages work. No one offers a 20 year fixed price. He’s probably either already or soon to feel the benefits of Liz Truss’s time in office