Originally Posted by Traveloguy
Whilst I agree that £300K is not a huge salary these days, it still would be earned by less than 1-2% of the UK labourforce, with the average UK wage under £30K.
It's actually much more extreme even than that. In 2003/4 (latest data on HMRC website
) only 1% of taxpayers earned more than £111k. The median income was a mere £16,000 with the average around £26k (not in table.)
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/income_.../3_1_apr06.pdf