Re[2]: [PHP] London PHP salaries

2007-06-14 Thread Richard Davey
Hi Daevid,

Thursday, June 14, 2007, 9:26:44 PM, you wrote:

 We had an employee (a friend of mine) start a UK office, and due to
 corporate legal reasons, and taxes, etc, he got paid in US DOLLARS.
 Aside from even more legal/tax issues he personally had to face, his
 salary was almost halved, as 1 USD = 1.9696 GBP !! 

No, that would give him a SUPERB salary conversion ;)

It's actually 1 USD = 0.50 GBP.

 The UK is VERY expensive. If I were you, I would do some online
 research at the cost of fuel/petrol/gas/whatever you call it, rent,

Well we call it whatever goes in the car. If you use petrol, we call
it petrol. If you use diesel, we call it diesel. Not too far beyond
your A, B, C's really.

 purchasing homes, taxes (don't they have VAT and GST or something
 like that?), an average lunch meal, dinner meal, utilities, car
 price, etc...

VAT is 17.5%, doesn't apply to all goods (certain items are exempt)
and is in practise no different to your state taxes. Think yourself
lucky it's only 17.5%, some European countries go way higher. It does
however fund our medical services, etc, etc.

The average cost of living over here, while higher than lots of other
countries, isn't out of line with the average salary, which is all
that matters. That doesn't mean consumer spending is in line with
their salaries, but hey - welcome to the mass global issue of being
in debt.

Back to the original question though, I'd not take a job offering less
than £35k/pa, *especially* one in central London. You should add on a
significant extra for that location alone.

Cheers,

Rich
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Re: Re[2]: [PHP] London PHP salaries

2007-06-14 Thread Tijnema

On 6/15/07, Richard Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Daevid,

Thursday, June 14, 2007, 9:26:44 PM, you wrote:

 We had an employee (a friend of mine) start a UK office, and due to
 corporate legal reasons, and taxes, etc, he got paid in US DOLLARS.
 Aside from even more legal/tax issues he personally had to face, his
 salary was almost halved, as 1 USD = 1.9696 GBP !!

No, that would give him a SUPERB salary conversion ;)

It's actually 1 USD = 0.50 GBP.


Ohh nice :)




snip


 purchasing homes, taxes (don't they have VAT and GST or something
 like that?), an average lunch meal, dinner meal, utilities, car
 price, etc...

VAT is 17.5%, doesn't apply to all goods (certain items are exempt)
and is in practise no different to your state taxes. Think yourself
lucky it's only 17.5%, some European countries go way higher. It does
however fund our medical services, etc, etc.


Yes, here in the Netherlands it's 19% and doesn't fund medial
services! that's another €1k  a year...


The average cost of living over here, while higher than lots of other
countries, isn't out of line with the average salary, which is all
that matters. That doesn't mean consumer spending is in line with
their salaries, but hey - welcome to the mass global issue of being
in debt.

Back to the original question though, I'd not take a job offering less
than £35k/pa, *especially* one in central London. You should add on a
significant extra for that location alone.

Cheers,

Rich


Just calculate what the minimal is you need, add 25% to it and you
have some reasonable salary I think.

Tijnema

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Re: Re[2]: [PHP] London PHP salaries

2007-06-14 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 15 June 2007 06:50, Richard Davey wrote:

 VAT is 17.5%, doesn't apply to all goods (certain items are exempt)

Foodstuffs and essential items are exempt.

 and is in practise no different to your state taxes. Think yourself
 lucky it's only 17.5%, some European countries go way higher. It does
 however fund our medical services, etc, etc.

I thought the NICs were supposed to fund the NHS/pensions and stuff like 
that?

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