Average first-time buyer must save more than a YEAR’S salary for a deposit on a home

The average first-time buyer must save more than a year’s salary to put down a deposit on a house, according to new data. A 20 per cent deposit on a home now equates to 104 per cent of annual pre-tax income of the average worker, Nationwide Building Society says. This figure, which applies to the … Read more

Mother-of-three set to make SIX times her previous salary after launching football game for kids

A mother-of-three is set to turnover £180,000 this year after turning a family football game into a fledgling business.  Gemma Coles, 39, from Bournemouth, was forced to furlough herself from her gymnastics coaching business in March and was ‘tearing her hair out’ trying to find a way to keep her boys off their phones and … Read more

Financial advisor with a six-figure salary is humbled by unemployed mother-of-five

A millionaire’s son who lives in his parents’ six-bedroom mansion gets a taste of what life is like on the breadline is like on tonight’s episode of Rich Kids Go Skint.   Financial advisor and personal shopper Alex, 25, from Stoke-on-Trent, enjoys the finer things in life and still lives at home rent-free in his parents’s … Read more

The Chase’s Anne Hegerty reveals quizzer Darragh ‘The Menace’ Ennis joining means her salary is CUT

Anne Hegerty has shared her opinion on the latest addition to The Chase, revealing that another quizzer means her own salary could be cut. The quiz star, 62, made a subtle dig at Darragh ‘The Menace’ Ennis being revealed as a new face during an appearance on The Lewis Nicholls Show on YouTube. When asked if … Read more

How do you split final salary and defined contribution pensions in divorce?

My daughter is divorcing her husband. They have been married for 18 years and lived together before that for seven years. She works part-time for her local council and has a final salary pension with a cash equivalent transfer value of £120,000. She is 45 years-old. Her ex has a private pension worth £280,000. He … Read more

Wealthy parents offer £70,000 salary to full-time nanny

London couple seek nanny to work ’24/7, seven days a week’ to look after their children aged three and nine months and cook healthy meals – but you DO get paid £70,000 a year and get every second week off Multilingual family who live in Knightsbridge, are hiring a full-time nanny  Employee must ‘solely focus’ … Read more

We love being paid a mummy salary by our hubbies! Wives insist being given a ‘wage’ is empowering

A generation or two ago, a woman going cap in hand to her husband for ‘housekeeping’ money or ‘a little something to keep me pretty’, without earning a penny herself, was pretty much the norm. Nowadays, most wives would baulk at the idea of being in the pay of her other half. Yet, in some marriages, … Read more

EasyJet boss to have salary frozen next year

EasyJet boss to have salary frozen next year as budget airline grapples with coronavirus travel restrictions By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 31 October 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 31 October 2020 The chief executive of easyJet is to have his salary frozen next year as the budget airline grapples with … Read more

Keir Starmer blasts inflation-busting pay rise for MPs taking their salary to more than £85,000

Keir Starmer blasts inflation-busting pay rise for MPs taking their salary to more than £85,000 saying ‘this year of all years’ the money should go to key workers instead Labour leader said politicians should not receive what is likely to be 4.1% raise  Increase would take MPs’ salaries to around £85,000, up by around £3,300 … Read more

Mesut Ozil offers to pay Gunnersaurus’ FULL salary after Arsenal sacked staff member in the costume

Mesut Ozil has offered to pay the salary of the man inside Arsenal‘s Gunnersaurus outfit to save the ‘famous and loyal’ mascot from extinction. Jerry Quy, who had played the role of the loveable furry dinosaur on matchdays for 27 years, was let go as part of Covid-19 cost-cutting. But in a new twist, Ozil … Read more