Jeremy Hunt Reckons His Salary Is Not Enough

[-SharonA-]

Jeremy Hunt was forced to defend comments he made about his salary of £100K when saying it is not a huge salary!!!!!

Who's he kidding!!! He is trying to make out it is not enough when paying for a mortgage and child care costs! Ahhhh poor man!

https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-hunt-defends-100k-isnt-a-huge-salary-comments-13101101

[ToraToraTora]

£100k is not a huge salary especially for the job he does. He'd be on 10 times that in the private sector.

[DTCwordfan]

Agree TTT though he will make a tanker-full once he leaves the job.....look at Georgie Porgie.....

[naomi24]

It's not a huge salary.  By the time tax and insurance is deducted he won't be picking up anything near £100,000.

[ichkeria]

I was about to post the same opinion as Tora

Help!

[-SharonA-]

But still, it is a huge salary more than any of us could dream of. Whether or not the job justifies the salary, my point is, if he's struggling........ what about the rest of us?

 

[douglas9401]

Maybe get a wee part time gig down at B&M to pad out his wages.

[Deskdiary]

Everything is relative. Somebody earning £50k with a £500 mortgage would be in a better position than somebody earning £100k with a £4k mortgage.

 

Unless you know somebody's outgoing, you simply cannot know the position they are in.

[ToraToraTora]

sharon: "But still, it is a huge salary more than any of us could dream of. " - no it's not it's very common place.

[-SharonA-]

Really Tora!!?? Even my sons who have good jobs don't get half as much as this.

[Ryzen]

£100k is only the starting point..well over £1m would be my guess.

[tomus42]

It depends on what your definition of huge is.

If you're on an average salary or less, it looks pretty huge, but if you're wealthy, it doesn't.

[Ellipsis]

The average salary in the UK is £34900.

> He'd be on 10 times that in the private sector.

Then why doesn't he? 

[ToraToraTora]

ellipsis: "Then why doesn't he? " - you could ask that of any top politician. Clearly money is not his main driver. Why would the PM want to do that job? He's a rich man married to an even richer woman. Boris has earned a 100 times the PM's salary since he left. They don't do it for the money. Gawd even Sir Beer could get a better paid job than LOTO.

[JDavis]

It's a big salary when you can make a nourishing meal for only 30 pence.

[nicebloke1]

The 100k is what we know about,fingers in the pies elsewhere we don't. And this man is so bad off he could afford to donate a 100k to his con fund the other week. My heart bleeds for him.😩

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds far, far, far too much to me. He should be in the 100% tax band category.

[Buenchico]

Jeremy Hunt is doing what is generally regarded as the second top job in the country.  Therefore it would seem to me perfectly reasonable that his salary should be well in excess of . . .

an experienced GP (average = £114k) ;
an experienced stockbroker (average = £125k) ;
an experienced headteacher (average = £131k) ; or
an experienced barrister (average = £200k)
[Figures sourced from the National Careers Service website].

 

Indeed, I think it could well be argued that he ought to be earning somewhat more than . . .

the CEO of National Highways (£335k+) ;
the CEO of the Civil Aviation Authority ((£345k+) ;
the CEO of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (£395k+) ;
or even
the CEO of HS2 (£640k+)
[Source: Cabinet Office]

£100k is a ridiculously low salary for someone in such a senior job!
 

[Old_Geezer]

All those are clearly overpaid.

[nicebloke1]

For the man that sets the countries budget and appears to be having problems living within his own means is more than worrying.

[Ellipsis]

So why does Jeremy Hunt not earn ten times the salary in the private sector?