• As above tax is hard to understand and you are only likely to make the effort to understand it if it’s causing you particular stress.

    But it’s unlikely he’d be doing office / clerical .Possibly high personal risk work like oil or something that pays by the amount of jobs you do, ie plumbing / gas etc.

    Willing to bet a big chunk of junior to mid devs are equally blinded to be fair. You understand what you need to. Fair, they aren’t earning 80k but by measures they will be intelligent.

    Oh and value is contextual.

  • As above tax is hard to understand and you are only likely to make the effort to understand it if it’s causing you particular stress.

    I agree that it gets complicated when you take into account child benefits and all other extra things. But come on, in its base form, UK PAYE tax is pretty straightforward. Or am I missing something here?

  • Or am I missing something here?

    Yeah - it’s deeply boring to most people. And there is a lot of well paying work that doesn’t require people who can or do understand it.

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