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What's the intent here? Contest the redundancy? Ask for more payout?

Just make sure you stay under the pension annual allowance (currently £60k), and once you start earning more (£260k adjusted income) the tapering and carry-forward rules around it get a bit more complex.

Exactly, and the op is on 1,000 x £102,200 - so they're looking pretty good!

Anything over about £102,200 is "ok".

Sub-trolling to another thread. Certainly putting in the leg-work!

I would tell you a joke about UDP, but you probably wouldn't get it.

CEO is unrealistic (due to various reasons), even if I wanted to be, which I don't. I made MD this year, and run a large team of people looking after some critical trading systems, I report to the CTO and COO - that's more than enough for me (I'm not particularly enjoying the extra work and...

What's the troll? It sounds very much like a situation someone could find themselves in. There's plenty of orgs. out there being run by complete idiots.

That sounds hideous. In your situation, I'd probably resign - without effective leadership especially around things like running costs, the company will be in trouble very shortly (if it isn't already), and you'll be looking for a new job anyway.

The trouble with self-organising teams, is that without leadership individual behaviours and issues are often left to fester. There *must* be some oversight from somewhere/someone, I refuse to believe that a team of people are effectively left to their own, unchecked, with no targets/goals and...

This is often the case - but it is very hard to have the impact and influence to progress further upwards without having some management responsibilities, rather than being an individual contributor. We do *try* and have that path, you *can* get to Principal without running a team/project or...

With regards to bonuses, there are some who pay out more than that, but it will be wildly variable. ie. in a good year you'll easily get 100%+ but in a bad year you could end up with 0%. We try and smooth that out, as do a few other hedge fund and similar investment managers that I know of...

Not at all, we hire people from all manner of backgrounds and experience. I joined with some years of Asset Management experience, but no sell side at all (it's very strange that a buy side company would ever specifically require sell side experience). In fact, we specifically dropped that...

If you're like this at work no wonder you aren't getting the pay rise you expect. You're getting the pay rise you deserve. So your salary has increased but it isn't a pay rise? pay raise noun an increase in the amount of money you earn for doing your job We're definitely not the ones...

It's been mentioned before - but if you can combine IT/Development skills with finance/business knowledge, your value (and you salary) will go up. There's a lot of mis-information about hedge funds. Yes, some of them pay well - some of them don't pay so well when they have a bad year (which is...

"but you can literally see the curvature of the earth." :rolleyes:

That's a good point - if you don't opt out of Child Benefit payments, you MUST register for SA to pay the charge. It's been so long since I went SA that I forgot what it was like before, so thank you. :)

If you're earning over £50k, then yes - as soon as you started earning that much, you'll have to pay back a portion of the Child Benefit from that point (You'll have to pay back 1% of your family’s Child Benefit for every extra £100 you earn over £50,000 each year.) If the amount is lower than...

Pity the seams go on them after a couple of years...

Continually? You originally had two questions: Anyone else have the same problem? The answer is "no". and what do you do about it? The answer is "deal with it". The rest of the thread appears to you just giving excuses as to why you are where you are, rather than addressing your issues. You...