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I think he had a point about PAYE against income not just against wealth. I just checked .gov was surprised £80k puts you that high up the scale. London obviously distorts that perspective.
The answers weren’t very good but the flow of information was a bit broken too.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-from-1-to-99-for-total-income-before-and-after-tax
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Everyone on that panel failed when they didn't point out two things
1) it's 5% of top earners on income, not wealth. I can understand if it's based on wealth how he might not feel like he should be included.
2) the median UK wage is about £28k if he is on over 80 then he very definitely sits well into the top 50%.
Also his doctors being on over 100k, don't junior doctors start on something like 25k and rise only up to 50k? Obviously that's just junior ones though.
I couldn't imagine earning 80k. I would need to do 5 or 6 years of professional qualification to get near that I think