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What would be regarded as a 'good salary' in New Zealand, Auckland in particular?
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To live in a good area of Auckland and have some level of disposable income you need to earn at least $80K NZ$. Less than that and you’ll not enjoy your surroundings or have enough to actually go out and have some fun on a regular basis. It's a very pricey place to live compared to the USA anyways. Easily twice as expensive and clothes are almost 4 times more costly here and petrol is nearly $9.00/gallon!!
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I disagree with the person saying you need $80k. I know people who live comfortably on state $53k & go out quite a bit & own their own home as a single person & still manage to save quite a bit too. For an idea of salaries in the different job sectors, check out these 2 websites. (I think the national average salary is actually quite low - like $40k, but I guess most households rely on 2 working partners to live to an acceptable level - so they’ve $80k combined as average wage earners).
A lot of NZers move to Australia (or the UK if they can) to earn much higher salaries, but many return because they like our culture & think NZ is a safer place to raise children. Also they forget how expensive it is to buy a home in the UK & in large Australian cities like Melbourne & Sydney in Australia. For purchasing properties, NZ is far cheaper & many people I know also own several rental properties through using their family home as collateral on a 2nd property to rent out & then from there using the equity on the 2nd property to buy a third one & so on & so on. We’ve no capital gains tax here either so it's simple to profit from property (buying a horrible place, doing it up & reselling it straight away for a higher price with no tax charged on the profit made).
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there are certainly some “dreamers” answering this Q
sweeneysteve well we all know hes an American who hates NZ so you can ignore his answer, petrol is actually only about $6.50US a gallon, yes still high but nice exaggeration there
as for saying $250,000 is a good salary - well yeah if you own 2 or more properties, a boat, a holiday home, go on several overseas holidays a year and like costly wine and cheese every night yeah you'd think about that “good” to all us other “mere morals” you'd think about that a bloody fantastic wage which you could live a life of luxury on
a good salary in NZ would be anywhere $50,000 and above, in Auckland possibly you could extend that to anything $60,000 and above i mean seriously $85,000 ??? that would see you live a VERY comfortable lifestyle.
if i can survive happily on $35,000ish working part - full time in Christchurch, saving $300 a fortnight then i don't see how you couldn't happily survive on $60,000 in Auckland
perhaps you'd like to get and idea of house prices in Auckland if so check out
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Property…
then check out http://www.sorted.org.nz/calculators/mor…
to compute the amount you'd have to pay weekly/fortnightly/monthly on the mortgage of your choice.
$60,000 would give you a weekly income of $1,153.00 before tax
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A good salary would be $250,000 plus, heaps get over 100k so thats not a very good salary, 2nd rate really
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about $75,000.00 (£30,000.00)
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