05/09/2025
If you’ve just joined the 4% of UK individuals with an income of £100,000 or more, congratulations. It’s a personal achievement that likely took years of hard work, late nights and careful saving and budgeting. And the number of those earning £100,000 or more is growing – in the 2022/23 tax year (the last year that data is available from HMRC) there were 1.35m people in the higher tax bracket – up 16% on the previous year.
Since the national average UK salary is £37,5002, earning £100,000 should feel more than comfortable. Yet often, it doesn’t. Partly, because the cost of living has soared – but that affects all of us. More importantly, while wages have been steadily rising, personal tax thresholds have remained frozen since April 2021. As a result, more people are tipping into a higher tax band, and finding themselves falling unwittingly into the 60% tax trap.
Earning a six figure sum can feel like being caught between a rock and a hard place.
Read more: https://www.jcowealth.co.uk/how-you-can-beat-the-60-tax-trap