Reasons to stop whining about everything

[andrewducker]

Go here and enter your salary.  Then feel slightly guilty for outearning a large chunk of the population of the world.

For the record I'm 13.69% down the population of the UK, and 2.25% down the population of the planet.

(Oh, gnacked from missedith01)

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Converting my income to pounds, even I'm in the top half for the UK, which definitely surprises me. I feel rich :)

[thadrin.livejournal.com]

There's surely no way on earth that pulling in 18 grand a year can have me in the top 23% for the UK...unless this counts Schoolkids, babies and pensioners.

[andrewducker]

I suspect it counts a lot of people on part-time wages...

[kellibunny.livejournal.com]

There are 42 million poorer than me in the UK. Crazy.

What's odd to me is when i clicked the link to show who is making what, they didn't have a number for female police officers, financial managers or doctors. You guys don't like girls over there? :)

[andrewducker]

We like girls - we just don't let them do stuff. Well, except for the cooking and cleaning, of course :-P

[momlady.livejournal.com]

At $2600 a year (and I did worldwide), it still put me in the top 14%...this doesn't make much sense unless they're also using children in the test and not just "working" population....And at that "annual" rate, how can there be 5 billion people worse off than me? Yikes! That's too strange for me. However, I will take the other two memes soon... and that should be interesting.

:-)

[andrewducker]

There are 6 billion people on the planet - and almost everyone in America is richer than a good 3 billion of them.

[allorin.livejournal.com]

"Richer" isn't really accurate - just because your gross salary is greater, doesn't mean your bottom line is.

Though, I freely admit, pretty much 95%+ of people in the US/UK are probably better of than about half the global population. Heck, just think of the Chinese.

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely. The Economist recently compared the nominally equal salaries of a disabled ex-farmer in the US (living on benefits) and a Doctor in Africa, supporting his wife and 12 children. Obviously the money went a lot further for the Doctor, but then he didn't get running water or electricity more than a couple of hours a day, 4 days a week...

[allorin.livejournal.com]

9.43% UK, and 0.99% Worldwide.

And dude, that just scared the shit out of me.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

It's broken: £4777 as the UK median income? I think not.

[andrewducker]

Well, considering that they list you out of 57 million people, one can only assume that that's the median income of _all_ people, including non-earners, children, etc.

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

I thought the average working UK salary was £25,000 odd....

At any rate, entering what I would get if I worked full time put me in the single digit percentages O_o...

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

It might be, but the average wage doesn't mean there'll be 50% above it and 50% below.

Three people...

A: 10000
B: 20000
C: 60000

The average wage in that group is 30000.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I put in my salary and am apparently am in the top 11.17% of the population, something I find very hard to believe.

According to the office for national statistics, the mean average salary in the UK is £23,400 and the median is £18,961.

Since I earn only a few thousand little over the national average wage, being in the top 12% clearly makes no sense unless the highest earners are on so much that they are able to skew the statistics by such a large margin.

The discrepancy lies in the way the statistics have been prepared. The NSO figures are based only on employed people, and while they do include part-time workers, they do not include people who earn nothing at all, which must be a significant percentage of the population (housewives, children, pensioners, the unemployed etc.)

The channel 4 site is basing it's values on the entire UK population, which includes people with no income. Input a salary of £1 and you are still in the top 50%!