It also depends where that person is living as the cost of housing, childcare and general living varies greatly across the counrty. Plus it depends how many depeandants they have and other obligations ie. do they have to put 3 children into full time care to earn that money or do they have ill family members to care for or support.

I would think that we fall into the middle income range where we don't get a lot of help from the government apart from CCR but while many people would think we are comfortable, others would struggle to live on our incomes. We made the decision to work in roles and companies that would give us the most flexibility while the children were young and we could maximise our time with them while still being able to support them financially. I guess we were also lucky in that we started investing in property when we were young (in early 20's) so that we were able to afford a reasonable house in the area that we wanted to. If we had waited there is no way we could live where we do now without us both working full time high paying jobs.