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Ideal opportunity to do a correlation really. 1 zloty and 2p = 0"
Get your rulers out boys. Will need to be fully erect, so bears, think of 50% falls by Christmas, gold rampers think of nuclear carnage, and bulls think of Geneer flipping burgers as prices escape him.
Somebodys got a wide on:rotfl:0 -
In theory I should have £600 left over after paying my bills, my mums bills, and the mortgage (no car related costs). It never actually manages to be that much though, as my sig attests to.Emergency savings: 4600
0% Credit card: 1965.000 -
pinkteapot wrote: »http://www.ifs.org.uk/wheredoyoufitin/
This site will tell you the percentile of the population you fit into for the national income distribution, though they use the slightly bizarre definition of income minus council tax.
p.s. I'm a girl - what am I meant to measure?
Well according to the IFS I have £113 per week. Apparently that puts me in the poorest decile, about 6% of people being poorer. I'm getting sick of being told I am officially poverty stricken !
Spookily, I have just read on another thread here that this£113 is exactly what a single man earning the minimum wage is left with after rent/council tax. [the poster was making the point that work pays better than the £67.50 JSA]
Happily, I spend at least 2 to three times that :j.
PS pinkteapot, I'd suggest about 38-28-38 would be shapely for a girl. And an IQ over 140 would be nice too.0 -
14 inches. On the slack.
What was the OP question again?It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Well I'm gonna break the mould and I'd say wiggle my weener about, but considering the £1,000's people have sloshing around, I doubt wiggling will actually be an option, so I'll leave it flapping in the breeze....
About £-150 - £+350 depending on the month. 1 income, 1 child, 1 house, Nursery fees etc, expensive part of the UK. Costs are spiralling, at least the ones I pay for (Nursery fees, diesel, electric, food, insurance etc that doesn't seem to have any effect on others on here...none have gone up 5%, all way over 30%). No pay rise for 2 years, not sure I'll get one this year either. Used to be much much better off. Doesn't leave much to wiggle around and show off about. I'm just lucky to get one off large paying jobs 2-3 times a year, which makes my lunchbox look a little more impressive.0 -
From the IFS site linked to earlier....
"to maintain a reasonable scale, it has been necessary to truncate the distribution at incomes above £1,100 per week. Around 5%, or 3.2 million individuals, have incomes higher than this, after adjusting for the size and composition of their households.
That's quite surprising, didn't think it was that many..“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »From the IFS site linked to earlier....
"to maintain a reasonable scale, it has been necessary to truncate the distribution at incomes above £1,100 per week. Around 5%, or 3.2 million individuals, have incomes higher than this, after adjusting for the size and composition of their households.
That's quite surprising, didn't think it was that many..
Does that mean that I'm not actually as high up the income scale as their site told me I am?
How disappointing.0 -
Let's step back a moment - £1100 a week is only £57200 a year, hardly a great wage ... every Head of Department in every Secondary School in the UK gets that as a minimum, for example.
I work with people who are being paid £1600 a day! £57,200 a year is really quite low in reality.Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!0 -
The site uses net income, not gross. So they are talking about a net income of £57,200 a year which is something near £90k gross...I work with people who are being paid £1600 a day! £57,200 a year is really quite low in reality.
If by 'reality' you mean 'the average across the UK'... Um, no. If 5% have incomes above £90k, then a tiny percentage are on incomes above £384k (£1,600 x 5 x 48).0 -
pinkteapot wrote: »5% have incomes above £90k, .
That's what I mean.
Really quite surprising.
3.1 million is the figure quoted with incomes over 90K. That's 5% of all people (62 million), not 5% of working adults (30 million).
It's more like 11% of working adults. Which seems high to me.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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