"Rich" is relative — here's the number
People are famously bad at guessing where they sit on the income ladder: high earners often feel middle class, and vice versa. This replaces the feeling with a percentile based on the UK income distribution — the kind of result people screenshot and argue about.
What you're probably wondering
These thresholds are for individual gross income, which is how UK earnings distributions are usually reported.
It's based on an approximate UK income distribution. Real percentiles vary by source and year, so treat it as a close estimate.
A lot. £50,000 stretches much further outside London. This shows the national picture.