On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Nathan Hondros <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Median income may be a more useful statistic. For the UK, I found a
> statistic from the 2007 Annual Survey of hours and Earnings which put the
> median at £23764 per annum (for the year ending April 2007). So exactly one
> half of all full time employees in the UK earned less than that.
Gross, presumably, rather than net.
By person rather than by household? A household with two median-wage
earners would be pretty well-off, by my reckoning. Until children
arrived, anyway.
"Middle" implies strata: upper, middle, lower. "Working" belongs in a
different series, along with "owning" and "ruling". That both persist
in usage together is perhaps symptomatic.
Dominic
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