quote from the ONS site
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According to the 2002 New Earnings Survey (NES), average gross annual pay of full-time employees in Great Britain was �24,603, and the average gross weekly pay of full-time employees in Great Britain increased by 4.6 per cent on the previous year to �465.
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Plenty to look at here
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=5006
You and me both Secretspirit. Our salaries here in Norfolk are among the worse in the UK and our house prices are catching up London. People here would think they were almost millionnaires if they earned the average wage!