A permie offer that as a contractor I would not refuse

[MrRobin]

1 - Kensington and Chelsea, London, average income £101,600 a year

et cetera...

But are these houshold incomes? Presumably many of them will have 2 income streams...

[chef]

Please provide a link and I'll tell you where it goes wrong.

contractor arrogance at it's best.. carry on Bagpuss

[Bagpuss]

re Mr robin: 1 possible reason and add to that if it's mean income it will be skewed toward the higher earners, who could be few.

contractor arrogance at it's best.. carry on Bagpuss

Not arrogance mate, it's just my job

[DBA_bloke]

I'd go for £50k+ and benefits, assuming that the benefits were ... er ... actually beneficial. e.g. whacking great percentage off the mortgage for duration of the job, or superb pension deal, etc. I'm currently looking for either perm or contract, and that's what I'm telling the pimps.

[MrRobin]

Yes they're averages - looks like this is the link

[MrRobin]

AND Yes, they are household income figures. Original Document

Secondly, the data comes from Barclays Premier Banking, whose customers have high salaries or assets anyway

[NoddY]

What would be more interesting is a breakdown of earned income vs. unearned income.

[XLMonkey]

150k+ would tempt me, but it would have to be convenient to home and a nice organisation to work with and interesting work with a decent pension and low stress levels.

Maybe.

[Bagpuss]

AND Yes, they are household income figures. Original Document

Secondly, the data comes from Barclays Premier Banking, whose customers have high salaries or assets anyway

sounds like some dickhead has done a quick excel of the Mean which is the least accurate average for skewed data

For Example say you survey 6 people who live in an area, 5 are fairly similar but 1 earns around 10 times more than the others and lives in the big house at the end of the road

eg 50 40 35 40 45 400= mean income 101k

35,40,40,45,50,400= median=circa 43k


the median is much lower but more indicative of 'local' incomes

[MrRobin]

Well done bagpuss, you pass Statistics101.

Although these stats are mostly meaningless, I don't think that there are many people living in K&C earning just £35k.