I came across this great web site created by the Institute for Fiscal Studies - Where do you fit in?

Enter your household income, council tax and dependents then it will show you where you lie in the UK's income distribution. It turns out that I earn more than 77% of the UK's population, although I never thought that ~£20k in London made me particularly rich. A friend of mine on ~£31k is in the top 7% for the country!

It just goes to show how we can take our income for granted, how unrealistic young people's inflated expectations are, and that the working poor represent a huge stain on Labour's supposed social democratic concerns.