{"id":5090,"date":"2025-07-17T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5090\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:15:09","slug":"the-henrys-struggling-on-100k-a-year-yes-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5090\/","title":{"rendered":"The Henrys* struggling on \u00a3100k a year (yes, really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI can see that you\u2019re going to die laughing, but we genuinely don\u2019t feel like we have a quality of life to sing about,\u201d says James, one of London\u2019s so-called Henrys. Director of a digital strategy company, he is profoundly dissatisfied with his lot. \u2018Henry\u2019 stands for High Earner, Not Rich Yet. And London is full of them: people on good salaries who are suddenly struggling. James talks me through the truth about the section of society whose members earn more than \u00a3100,000 a year but who barely make ends meet. \u201cThe problems facing us are legion,\u201d he says. And mad as it sounds, James has a point. Just 10 years ago a Henry would have been able to live in a nice \u2014 or soon to be nice \u2014 area, eat at some delicious restaurants, go on smart holidays and might even be able to swing the fees of a kid or two at private school. Not any longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI can see that you\u2019re going to die laughing, but we genuinely don\u2019t feel like we have a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,388,3059,3060,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-london","tag-rich","tag-salaries","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}