Anon10/17/25, 21:12No.16819527
Just in case it was not clear enough that STEM graduates have to eject outta the UK on graduation:
>Are we earning enough? The new squeeze on the middle classes
https://archive.is/WWgk1
>Someone working full-time on a minimum wage (£12.21 an hour) will earn just over £25,000 a year. According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), male graduates currently earn an average starting salary of £30,000 a year, and female graduates earn £28,000. This is not a huge margin above minimum wage. Indeed, HESA estimates that the “graduate premium” (the excess amount earned by those who completed university education) has fallen by 10 percentage points over the past two decades.And that is why a UK burger flipper earns as much as a postdoc in the UK. Some more doom-scrolling:>Furthermore, the average graduate emerges with student debts of £44,000. Servicing that debt makes it even harder to save enough money to reach the next marker of middle-class status: owning a home. The average age of a first-time buyer was 23 in 1960 and 28 in the mid-1980s, but last year it was 32. Many graduates have to rely on the “Bank of Mum and Dad” to get on the first rung of the housing ladder.I hope you plan not to retire, ever:>Analysis by stockbroker Charles Stanley suggests that, assuming a couple each qualifies for the state pension, they will need an additional pot of nearly £400,000 to fund a moderate lifestyle in retirement and more than £730,000 for a comfortable lifestyle. In practice, the average pension pot for men in their 60s is around £80,000 and for women, £40,000. In the circumstances, it is hardly surprising that many older workers are delaying retirement. To add to the problems, the state pension age is set to rise from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028.Logan's Run is the only future for those staying in the UK.