Years ago when I wasted some time at university I took out one of those student loan things (well beer doesn’t come cheap you know) and basically, I don’t need to pay anything back until I’m earning above the average wage.<\/p>\n
Last year that came to \u00a32161\u00a0a month (just under \u00a326k a year). Now, with the recession and everything, I assumed that there wouldn’t be much difference, in fact with all the fat cat bankers and money launderers going out of business maybe the threshold would come down.<\/p>\n
Anyway, deferment time is rapidly approaching, so I went online to check where I stood (I’ve never earned above the average wage so far, but sometimes I get a month, with overtime,\u00a0which would put me above the\u00a0monthly limit\u00a0so I try to make sure I don’t get one of those in the three wage slips they assess me on)<\/p>\n
To my suprise, despite times being hard the average wage has gone up to \u00a327k, around \u00a3100 a month more than it was last year (a 4% rise).<\/p>\n
With a lot of perople at the lower end of the scale feeling the pinch and being told there’s no money in the pot for wage rises, I wonder who it is that is raking it in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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