Quite! No account of where you live either - money goes further in some places, house prices vary dramatically, wages for the same kind of jobs too. I'm sure it looks like we earn a fortune, but in reality we have just about managed to save enough to put each child through uni with "normal" levels of maintenance top up required - and I thought I had done really well and they were covered for educational needs. We don't have foreign holidays, we don't have expensive cars or a massive house. Sigh!Munchpot wrote:And that's the most annoying thing about Household income - it doesn't take into account expenditure or the number of children you have.Scarytimes wrote: We are middle income too (though between us earn towards the top of their scale) so a DaDA may not give enough for DS to go to Laine even if he is awarded with one! If we had one child then our income would be enough for mortgage, living expenses and top up - but we have three children, all needing their slice of our income...
For example a household income of £70k with one child would leave you in a very different position than a household income of £70k with 3 children all wanting to pursue Perf Arts training!
Gosh I'm grumpy today. Nearly the weekend...