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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »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.
It seems high to me to and I am sure I heard something on the radio a while back that is was 1% ..... found something 2 years old but I still cannot imagine we have seen an 10% increase in high earners in the last 2 years given the economic climate?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8151355.stmDont wait for your boat to come in 'Swim out and meet the bloody thing'
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The IFS site works on household incomes. Could they mean 3.1 million households with incomes over £90k? (so very high earning sole earners or couples with joint earnings exceeding this)0
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Going4TheDream wrote: »It seems high to me to and I am sure I heard something on the radio a while back that is was 1% ..... found something 2 years old but I still cannot imagine we have seen an 10% increase in high earners in the last 2 years given the economic climate?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8151355.stm
The problem with ASHE and the ONS is that it only counts employees on PAYE. So they reckon around 45K gross is top 10%, and 60K gross is top 5%.
But all the self employed businessmen and contractors are excluded.
And that group contains a significant number of high earners.....“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.”
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I have enough to over pay the installments on my debts, so i'm happy!0
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »The problem with ASHE and the ONS is that it only counts employees on PAYE. So they reckon around 45K gross is top 10%, and 60K gross is top 5%.
But all the self employed businessmen and contractors are excluded.
And that group contains a significant number of high earners.....
And a very significant amount of low earners.0 -
My spreadsheet tells me over the last 30 months I average +£857.33. That's a saved figure so all bills inc mortgage paid
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