The perils of earning a £100,000 salary
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n those idle daydreams about the perfect job, that fantasy promotion, it is a wage that - for the overwhelming majority of us - will do very nicely indeed.
An annual income of £100,000 is enough to put a recipient comfortably within the top 2% of all earners, and the figure has become a key indicator that the recipient is a high-flier.
The BBC's Panorama survey of the best-remunerated public servants took £100,000 as its yardstick - and it found that some 38,045 state employees take home that amount or more each year. Going by official figures, that leaves about 545,000 privately employed people earning £100,000 or more per year.
It is a sum that puts one within touching distance of the prime minister's earning power - David Cameron having taken a 5% pay cut upon assuming office, bringing his salary to £142,500.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11382591
An annual income of £100,000 is enough to put a recipient comfortably within the top 2% of all earners, and the figure has become a key indicator that the recipient is a high-flier.
The BBC's Panorama survey of the best-remunerated public servants took £100,000 as its yardstick - and it found that some 38,045 state employees take home that amount or more each year. Going by official figures, that leaves about 545,000 privately employed people earning £100,000 or more per year.
It is a sum that puts one within touching distance of the prime minister's earning power - David Cameron having taken a 5% pay cut upon assuming office, bringing his salary to £142,500.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11382591
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