Working in the US Part time an option?

[johnep]

You and your wife can be taxed separately. tax is roughly 20% total upto 34kstg, then 40% above. Pension payments are deducted before tax so in effect Govnmt are paying a percentage.

It may be that I am just an old cynic, but 400,000 Britons have left recently to live abroad. I would strongly advise googling for US living in UK to get their opinions. Weathy people like it in Uk as kidnapping and serious crime well below that of USA.

I did have a gun pulled on me in Miami, but otherwise have had no problems at all when in US.By the way it was a garage where I pulled in to ask directions and they must have thought I looked a bit strange.

If I was a young man and was going to work in retail (I was in industry) then Florida or California do sound attractive on a cold wet day.

johnep

[Pharmanaut]

Johnep,
Sorry to keep dwelling on this, but just trying to clarify. I think we would plan to live there permanently. Am I completely way off to assume a pharmacist's salary would be around 50,000 pounds (don't have the symbol on my keyboard)? By my estimation based on the tax structure and National health insurance there, this would be roughly a net income of 35,000 pounds per annum. Does this sound right to you, as I'm simply going off of what I've read? I've also read the "average" mortgage payment there is around 1200 p/month, does that sound right? I just don't want to make the wrong move, but if these figures are "ballpark", then with two of these incomes I think we could do ok. Let me know.
thanks,

Try this site it is reasonably accurate to see how much you have left for yourself!
The Salary Calculator - Take-Home

Once you get your net salary, the government in the UK nibble away at it again and again every time you try to spend, save or even die. If it were criminal activity it would be called extortion, but here we call it Taxes.