the United Kingdom · Income · 2023 data

Am I middle class in the United Kingdom?

Enter your household income after tax. See if you're inside the 75% to 200% band, and how far from each edge.

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Data: HMRC — Personal Incomes Statistics, Table 3.1a: Percentile points for total income before tax (Survey of Personal Incomes), tax year 2023 to 2024 · income year 2023, survey wave 2024

Income distribution in the United Kingdom

Each bar is a slice of the United Kingdom households. The cyan marker shows where you sit; the flags below mark the median and the 75% and 200% band edges.

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5k10k15k25k40k50k75k100k125k150k200k250k300kMedian£29,70075% of median£22,2752× median£59,400
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What the numbers actually say

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Middle class in the United Kingdom: £22,275 to £59,400 a year.
That's 75% to 200% of the median of £29,700, the OECD's definition.
About 56% of households in the United Kingdom sit inside the band.
Estimated from the same published income distribution this page runs on.
The OECD middle class shrank from 64% to 61%.
Between the mid-1980s and mid-2010s, roughly one percentage point per decade.
70% of boomers were middle class in their twenties.
For millennials at the same age it was 60%, per the OECD's 2019 report.
The middle class has rungs: 75%, 100%, 150% and 200% of the median.
In the United Kingdom: a floor of £22,275, a midpoint of £29,700, a ceiling of £59,400.
Twice the median is not "rich". It's the edge of "middle".
Above £59,400 the OECD stops calling you middle class and starts calling you upper income.
Frequently Asked Questions

Individual taxable income before tax · Total annual income (employment, self-employment, pensions, savings, dividends, rents) before income tax for individual UK taxpayers — i.e. people with at least some Income Tax liability. Source: HMRC Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI), tax year 2023 to 2024. Coverage: ~36.7 million UK individuals; people earning below the personal allowance threshold are not included. Note: this is per-individual gross income, not equivalised household income, so it is not directly comparable with the household-based figures used for European countries on this site.

"Middle class" on this page follows the OECD definition from Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class (2019): households earning between 75% and 200% of the national median income, with lower-middle (75-100%), mid (100-150%) and upper-middle (150-200%) rungs. The cut-offs of £22,275 and £59,400 are derived arithmetically from the median shown in the source data; they are not percentile thresholds published by the statistical office.

Data: HMRC — Personal Incomes Statistics, Table 3.1a: Percentile points for total income before tax (Survey of Personal Incomes), tax year 2023 to 2024 · income year 2023, survey wave 2024

OECD (2019), Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class

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