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Fund defence spending from tax rise on middle earners, thinktank tells Healey
(www.theguardian.com)
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It depends who you ask. An actual middle/average earner is about £30,000 in the UK - though I think normally when they say something like this, they mean something like £50,000 - £100,000ish - those who may appear to be "fairly rich" to others, but might themselves feel like they're "just about managing".
Yeah in my mind, a middle earner is someone in the 50k to 100k like you said.