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Individual median income in the US is about 2/3 of that. But most things cost more in Britain. And a smaller percentage are in the economic basement, thanks to the British medical system and other social policies. To this American Britain, and western Europe in general, feels wonderfully youthful. Mark At 10:28 AM 5/26/2008, you wrote: >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