Hi Bowl - I start my new job as a corporate lawyer soon so wondering if anyone has any advice on the best ways to save/build on the salary? Is paying into pensions a good idea? Are there other things that you/your colleagues in biglaw/similar industries are doing to maximise your salary and/or minimise tax?

Appreciate if this comes across a bit juvenile but I don’t really have anyone else to ask as I’m the first in my fam to go university and land a job in the City. Thanks in advance all!

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If you are looking to save for long term worth putting money in a stocks and shares isa and buying tracker funds. They will go up and down in short run, but a low cost way of getting a reasonable average return in long run.

As you get pay rises try and save the extra. If you let your lifestyle creep you will feel as poor as when you are a graduate when you are earning 100K plus.

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Make sure you check the approach your pension scheme uses. Some assume you are on 20% tax and add that onto your contributions. This means if you fall partly I to higher rate tax bracket (40%) you need to claim the extra 20% from HMRC. If you ring up they can do this for you.

The same with gift aid for charity donations. Gift aid assumes you are paying 20%, if you fall I to the higher tax bracket you need to manually claim difference.

Last one is if you invest in any start ups (not necessarily recommended) that are eligible for EIS or SEIS releif - also needs to be manually claimed back.

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Get into Reddit’s FIRE UK bowl - they have generally good advice on ISA S&S (TLDR is Vanguard for low fees), LISA, Salary sacrifice etc etc (definitely take advantage if your company has the scheme - look it up and what it means for tax and NI savings).

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The UK Fire flowchart is a good starting point. Worth looking at that first, the folks over there will likely point you to that if you ask this question there.

It’s either in the sticky post or in the questions on the right hand side.

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Great - thanks everyone! Really helpful
And will have a look at the recommended resources.

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