Pay!

[andrewducker]

Looking for median pay information (average pay is interesting, but not nearly as interesting as knowing what percentage of people earn above/below a certain level), I ended up at the government's statistics site at the advice of cangetmad.

This lead me to the Annual Survey of Hours and Working. Table 1.7a is particularly interesting, because it tells you that overall I'm in the 75th percentile of UK earners, the 65th amongst men, the 68th amongst full-timers and the 62nd amongst full-time men.

I'd be interested to see further breakdowns by age (i.e. for a person aged 35, how am I doing?) and if I have the time I'd like to throw some graphs together with that data.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Above the 90th percentile. They haven't released figures broken down to individual percentiles, so you can't see whether you're in the 93rd or 96th :->

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

well that's a bit of surprise to me then, just how 'low' that 90th is.

London has a great many people grossing more than twice that - but hey, that's only x % of about a sixth of the country's populace...

and maybe many of the high earners get income in ways not picked up by the survey. e.g. my actual salary is less than 1/4 of my gross annual income.