UK vs USA Salaries Statistics

Often, there are threads on Reddit about what salaries people make, and the UK rarely posts due to salaries seeming low in comparison.

I'm in IT and I make £50K. When I comment on threads, the US audience laughs me out of the room.

US median weekly income, full-time: $989 (source: Bureau of Labour Statistics)

UK median weekly income, full-time: £586 (source: Parliamentary report).

$100k is 101x the US median weekly income.

101x the UK median weekly income is £59k.

--- comparing percentile income ---

$100k, before tax, puts you at the 80th percentile for earning in the US (i.e. you're earning more than 80% of the population) (source). The 80th percentile before-tax income in the UK is £42k (source).

Depending on the stats you use, a $100K salary in the UK is worth between £42K and £59K, and this doesn't take into account USA costs that are part of UK general taxation, such as health insurance.

If you average it out, you can say the equivalent UK salary to a US one is roughly half.

This post is either informative, or just a massive cope in the face of nearly 20 years of wage stagnation.