Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post

Then you were statistically below the poverty line.

Minimum wage now I believe is about £6 p.h. thus a 40 hours week amounts to about £12,000 p.a. Mick, were you on half that ?

2009 quote:-

Another way of measuring it is "median" gross annual earnings. According to ASHE, this was the more modest figure of £20,801, across all employee jobs. If you are earning that sum a year, you are "Mr or Mrs [or Ms] Mid-Point" - precisely half the surveyed working population earns less than you and half more. For just full-time employees, the median rises to £25,123.
No not quite that low, around £9,000 I did and still do get Housing Benifit.
Mick.